TN: 2000 Chateau Sociando Mallet Cuvee Jean Gautreau [9.27.2025 note added]

[Jason_T]

@Robert.A.Jr

While this bottling is substantially better than the normale, it still has very forward green and herbaceous notes. Also throws a lead pencil note as well, followed by dark fruits and cassis, resembling more of an old school Pauilliac, really. The palate is dense, mouth-coating. Quite a full-bodied wine, and if anything, probably still 5 or so years away from its peak drinking window. Big chalky tannins, firm acid structure and still some escalated extraction, clearly calling for more time to integrate. The acids and light salinity really keep this wine quite fresh despite its weight. I’m sitting here first glass in after 1.5 hours in a decanter. Saving 1/2 of the bottle for tomorrow. Digging what I see here but needs time.

I’m so excited by that note I may not be able to stand up for a good five, ten minutes.