Description
It’s hard not to admire the brilliant Jean Gautreau, who has run this great terroir and estate (just to the north of St-Estèphe’s Château Montrose) with meticulous perfection for decades. The 2005 is a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc. Offering beautifully sweet crème de cassis and blueberries, this is concentrated essence of blue and black fruits, with some underlying minerality, a medium to full-bodied mouthfeel, and stunning texture, length and purity. This is superb Sociando Mallet, with surprisingly sweet tannin, which is even more remarkable in this vintage of high and occasionally hard tannins. Give it another 4-5 years of cellaring, and drink it over the following 30 years. Robert Parker
- Decant Time: 4-5 hours
- Taste: Cassis, Blackberry, Earth, Tobacco, Herbs
- Food Matching: Red meat, Cheese, Poultry
- Grape Variety:
Cabernet Sauvignon
: 55%,
Merlot
: 40%,
Cabernet Franc
: 5%,
Tasting note
2005年的瑪利城堡由55%的赤霞珠、40%的梅洛和5%的品麗珠混釀而成。這款酒提供了美麗的黑果香氣，帶有礦物質的觸感和完美融合的優雅橡木。它酒體飽滿，顏色深沉。這款酒新鮮、直接，並且有著美妙的長度。年輕時，這款酒常常顯得有些'剛烈'，但隨著年齡的增長，酒的平衡感和複雜性也在提高。這款酒強大而有力，但缺乏精緻，需要克服大量的單寧才能讓人喝得開心。黑醋栗、黑莓、土壤、煙草和草本植物的香氣十分豐富，但也有一絲綠色，單寧也顯示出一些粗糙。
The 2005 Chateau Sociando-Mallet is a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc. This wine offers a beautiful bouquet of black fruit aromas with a touch of minerality and well-integrated, elegant oak. It is full-bodied with a deep, dark colour. The wine is fresh, straightforward, and has a wonderful length. It is often somewhat 'virile' when young, but the wines gain in balance and complexity with age. The wine is big and powerful, but lacking refinement, there is a lot of tannin to overcome before this becomes much fun to drink. Cassis, blackberry, earth, tobacco and herbs are in abundance, but there is a touch of green and the tannins display some rusticity as well.
