WTN: Sociando Mallet 2003

Lockdown Wine # 59. Opened and aired 2 hours before dinner. Cork was pretty soft. Needed to use the Durand on this. Very dark and opaque. Chocolate and very ripe black berries on the nose, but a classic cedar/pencil shavings Bordeaux beneath that. Very soft. Structure provided by the acidity which it has in adequate measure. Black tea, tobacco, a little leathery. Fruit is fading. Quite dry, but not in any way austere. A touch over medium-bodied. Good length. Perhaps a bit past prime. But then again, maybe not the best example due to the problematic cork. From this bottle, best to drink up.

[David M. Bueker]

Definitely sounds like a subpar cork. Too bad.

I have one more bottle of this. Hope it turns out better.

[David M. Bueker]

I have three, so I hope so as well.