Château Sociando-Mallet 2017 shriaz The older vines are all

The older vines are all dry grown while the younger vines have access to irrigation which until recently was banned in Spain

with a good presence of soft

The grapes for this wine are de-stemmed before crushing and then vinified lwith daily pump-overs and gentle punching down

There is luminous

some time on lees

Château Sociando-Mallet 2017 shriaz The older vines are allChteau Sociando Mallet may claim not to be "neither classified nor bourgeois", but it is still considered one of the best wines of the Haut Mdoc appellation. Its vineyard extends over an impressive area of 85 hectares composed of gravelly soil on a clay limestone subsoil where vines of Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (40%) and Cabernet Franc (5%) are planted. The wines of the estate benefit from a traditional maturing period of 12 months in new