Château Sociando-Mallet 2012
WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 885; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2012 which is 860. The average score for Château Sociando-Mallet is 892, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Sociando-Mallet they use words like Fruit, Deep, Full, Purple, Long, Mineral, Powerful, Depth, Tannic, Dense, Dark, Black, Tannins, Rich, Ripe. The 2012 shares all of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2012 but no other wine from Château Sociando-Mallet: Saline, Worthy, Glorious, Intriguing, Olives. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 13%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 2012 (12.5% vs 12.92%). The wine has been ready to drink for 2 years (since 2016) and should be consumed within the next 17 years (by 2035). It normally takes wines from Château Sociando-Mallet around 8 years to be ready to start drinking, and 14 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Pontet-Canet 2011, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 1998, Château Gruaud-Larose 2010, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château L’Eglise-Clinet 2006; but better value alternatives would be Château Poujeaux 2005, Château Haut-Batailley 2009, Château Haut-Batailley 2014.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very good value for money, beating 70% of other wines when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
Similar Wines from Nearby
| Similarity Score | Wine | Price Difference | |——-|——–|———|
Similar Wines from Other Regions
Prices & Deals for Château Sociando-Mallet 2012
| Date | Currency | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-16 | gbp | 24 |