2000 Château Sociando-Mallet
Community Tasting Note
ArtF wrote:
94 Points
Monday, July 10, 2023 - Three years since last tasted. Still deep maroon. Truffle, lead pencil, earth, on nose and palate. Beautiful balance and elegant. A little less full bodied than before. A thirty year wine, probably.
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Comment posted by Brady D:
8/15/2023 12:17:00 PM - No overt vegetal note, like green pepper? My experience with this wine has showed excessive capsicum, but maybe I’ve just been unlucky
Comment posted by ArtF:
8/17/2023 2:47:00 PM - No green in any of the 10 opened from a case purchased as futures and stored professionally until 2018.
Comment posted by ArtF:
9/24/2023 8:53:00 AM - From others' comments, I'm thinking bottles bought before release might be doing better than bottles that were in storage in France during the excessive heat of Summer 2003.
Comment posted by Brady D:
9/24/2023 11:24:00 AM - I bought mine EP, and definitely had full-on green notes. Letting the rest of the case sleep and hoping it blows off or my tastes change