France • Château Sociando-Mallet, Route de Mapon, 33180 Saint-Seurin-de-Cadourne, France
Château Sociando-Mallet is a highly regarded Haut-Médoc estate on the Left Bank of Bordeaux, dramatically set on the Baleyron hill above the Gironde estuary in Saint-Seurin-de-Cadourne, just north of Pauillac and Saint-Estèphe. Viticulture here is documented back to 1633, when the land belonged to a Basque nobleman named Sociondo; the Mallet family name was added in the 19th century and the run‑down property was revived in 1969 when négociant Jean Gautreau bought it and began an ambitious programme of expansion and…
