Chateau Sociando-Mallet, Medoc, 2000 so050425 ukraine offer and aged in concrete to

and aged in concrete to keep the fruit pure and lifted

and for good reason

then in larger barrels—results in a Highland whisky of remarkable character and complexity

the estate has continued in traditional fashion — long élevage in large neutral Slavonian oak

Chateau Sociando-Mallet, Medoc, 2000 so050425 ukraine offer and aged in concrete toChateau Sociando Mallet sits 10km north of Pauillac in the Haut Medoc, and it's long been regarded as the equal of many classed growths, a genuine Bordeaux sleeping giant. The modern estate was built by Jean Gautreau, who bought the run down property in 1969 and spent fifty years turning it into one of the Medoc's great overachievers. The 2000 is a celebrated vintage and now a fully mature back vintage Medoc, the kind of classically built claret that