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Jul 24, 2023 · 2019 Ridge Monte Bello (82% CS, 9% M, 8% PV, 1% CF) A “rare and charming vintage,” pace John Olney, all the fruit now farmed organically. A large crop, with 41 lots assembled separately in the antechamber of the final blend—a record at Monte Bello. Mint, menthol, easy summer fruits, and a soft, luxuriant texture.
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Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet was already beating a path in the 1960s. It was the 1971 Monte Bello that won in Paris, two years after the now renowned Paul Draper joined as a philosophy graduate-turned winemaker. Yet, Ridge Vineyards was born in 1885 when Italian immigrant doctor Osea Perrone bought 180 acres of land on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa ...
Words below by Stephen Brook, Decanter magazine, 2016. With vines at between 400m and 800m, the Monte Bello vineyard is, according to Draper, one of the highest and coolest Cabernet Sauvignon sites in California. The soil is decomposing Franciscan greenstone mixed with clay over a subsoil of 100-million-year old limestone, which is very rare in Cal...
Draper finds a short maceration necessary to avoid over-extraction of tough tannins, which typically means racking off the skins at between 1% and 4% residual sugar. The fermentation then continues to dryness. The blend is made up soon after the malolactic fermentation is completed and between 10% and 20% press wine is added. Monte Bello differs fr...
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Natural malolactic. Selection:: Thirty-six Monte Bello parcels. Barrels:95% air-dried American oak, 5% French oak (100% new) Aging:Twenty months in barrel. Hand-harvested; estate grown Monte Bello Vineyard grapes, organically farmed, de-stemmed and sorted; fermented on the native yeasts; full malolactic on the naturally occurring bacteria; oak ...
Ridge Monte Bello 2020 from Santa Cruz Mountains, California - Opaque ruby color with ripe cassis, plum and red currant fruit, toasty oak, vanilla, fennel, juniper berry, and bay laurel. Well-integrated velvety tannins, ful...
Nov 16, 2022 · Ridge Monte Bello vertical: tasting notes and scores for all 21 wines. All of these wines will be available at Christie’s special Finest and Rarest Wines and Spirits auction held between 1-2 December, 2022. Wines are listed in descending vintage order. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Ridge Vineyards, we attended an incredible vertical ...
The Monte Bello (originally Monte Bello Cabernet; until 1975, 100% cabernet) is the wine that introduced Ridge to the world, and the world to Ridge. Today it is a blend of bordeaux varietals in which cabernet sauvignon still predominates.
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Mar 19, 2017 · The Monte Bello winery also produces some of Ridge's Zinfandel based wines, including the always outstanding Geyserville. This is somewhat surprising given its distance from Monte Bello and the fact that their Lytton Springs winery is in Sonoma near Geyserville. Evidently, they prefer to bottle certain wines at Monte Bello.
