Haut-Médoc · vintage 2024
Why this vintage
- 92-93 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2024 vintage in Haut-MédocA rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.
Critic scores
- James Suckling92-93
- Vinous90-92
- Jeb Dunnuck90-92
- Decanter92
- Wine Advocate90-91
The 2024 vintage in Haut-Médoc
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Haut-Médoc. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
""Sociando-Mallet 2024 est élégant, raffiné et très sophistiqué. Des tanins fins enveloppent une base solide de prune, de lavande, de moka, de réglisse et de menthe. l'élevage en barriques 100% neuves est à peine perceptible. Des nuances florales et salines façonnent la longue finale magnifiquement persistante. Il s'agit d'un Sociando très impressionnant."" - Vinous
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Blend of the 2024 vintage
- 57 % Merlot
- 43 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2024 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2024 sheet
- 39 hl/haYield
- 30 yrsVine age
Label
Winemaking
Vinification traditionnelle (remontages, délestages) en cuves ciment et inox
thermo-régulées.
Durée de cuvaison : 25 jours.
Fermentation Malolactique en cuves.
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Ageing
Elevage 100% en barriques neuves, pendant 12 mois.
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Terroir
Since the 17th century, Sociando-Mallet has occupied the Baleyron knoll, one of the finest gravel terroirs in the Médoc. The terroir of Sociando-Mallet is made up of Günzian gravel over a deep clay-limestone subsoil. It allows the Cabernet Sauvignon to ripen in excellent conditions and the Merlot to acquire depth and complexity, while regulating the vine's water supply to perfection. This terroir is the soul of the Sociando wines, which owe to it their complex structure, their freshness and their elegance. The blend consists of 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 47% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc. The vines are 30 years old on average.
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Texts and documents 2024
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.