Chateau Sociando-Mallet, Haut Medoc, 2016 SO102125 Cristal2016 Writer's Block is named for

Writer's Block is named for the vineyard right outside screenwriter Robert Kamen's office window

lifted aromatics

converted the estate to organic then biodynamic farming

produces Bric Balin from a single south-facing cru near the winery

Chateau Sociando-Mallet, Haut Medoc, 2016 SO102125 Cristal2016 Writer's Block is named forThe most famous unclassified chteau in the Mdoc, from a vintage everyone wanted. Sociando Mallet sits on a gravel rise at Saint Seurin de Cadourne, just north of Saint Estephe, and its late owner Jean Gautreau spent fifty years making a point: he refused to submit the wine for classification, convinced it didn't need the label. Most Bordeaux drinkers quietly agree this is a Cabernet Sauvignon led claret built with the structure and seriousness of a