Red · Haut-Médoc · France
Château Sociando-Mallet Haut-Médoc
Scored from 7,368 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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What reviewers say
“2000 is known to be a sleeper vintage for most of Bordeaux wines so I’ve decided to bottle ox for 7hrs before resting in decanter for 1hr. Bright dark ruby with no signs of a 22yo wine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Opaque black/purple colour, with notes of crushed rock, white flowers, graphite, blueberry and cassis, the wine is tight and needs to be coaxed from the glass. It is medium to full-bodied, with an excruciatingly tough-textured finish.
Château Sociando-Mallet Haut-Médoc is a French red made from Cabernet Sauvignon. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $49.99, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band. It comes from Haut-Médoc, in France.
1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside. 7,368 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 7,569 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Château Sociando-Mallet Haut-Médoc lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · France (1,134 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 7,368.
