Chateau Sociando-Mallet 1999 This is Lot L

This is Lot L

which has recently doubled its holdings by purchasing another 30 hectares in the Riparbella area

but left behind a strikingly beautiful Brunello endowed with seemingly endless layers of fruit and fabulous overall balance

Anticipated maturity: 2016-2038

anise and clove accents

Chateau Sociando-Mallet 1999 This is Lot L90pts Robertparker. com "The 1999 Sociando Mallet is an unusually structured, extracted wine in this generally rather forward vintage. Offering up aromas of cassis, cherries and loamy soil, framed by a discreet patina from its levage in barrel, it's medium to full bodied, layered and nicely concentrated, with ripe acids and rich tannins that still assert themselves on the finish. This is one 1999 that still amply benefits from an hour in a decanter