Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 1990

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 1990

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  • Robert Parker rating 95
  • Vinous rating 94
  • Jancis Robinson rating 94
Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 1990
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HED6752

75 cl

13.5%
£565.00
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For longer than six decades, Ridge has been recognised as one of the most significant producers of consistently high-quality wines in California. The Monte Bello Cabernet comes from their oldest Santa Cruz Mountains vineyards and is undoubtedly the flagship wine. The 1990 vintage is a blend of 85% Cabernet sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot. Complex and spicy on the nose following through to a beautifully balanced palate with soft tannins and mature fruit.
94 Vinous
The 1990 Monte Bello is in a great place today, where the aromatics and flavors are nicely mellowed by time, and yet the wine still has quite a bit of life ahead. Sage, tobacco and spice overtones give the voluptuous fruit lovely shades of nuance. Readers lucky enough to own the 1990 can look forward to another decade or so of very fine drinking.Antonio Galloni1st August 2018
94 Jancis Robinson
Exhibiting a polar opposite profile compared to the wet 1985 harvest, the 1990 Monte Bello speaks to the site's inherent consistency and impressive performance in dry vintages, although an early summer rain reduced the crop size and helped deliver an elegant wine overall. Tasted out of magnum, it exudes a markedly more fruit-dominant profile than most of the other wines in the vertical, defined by considerable mouthfeel density, melting tannins and impressively lively streaks of acidity that pulse through a focused yet resonant finish. It's a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot with a labeled alcohol content of 13.5%.Matthew Luczy30th April 2026

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Named after the historic vineyard area of Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains has been a byword for fine Californian wine since the early 1960s. Ridge shot to fame in the fabled 1976 Judgement of Paris. It was at this groundbreaking blind tasting that the 1971 Ridge Monte Bello was pitted against some of the most revered First Growths of Bordeaux. It placed fifth. (NB: in a re-enactment of the same tasting held in 2006, Monte Bello 1971 placed first.)

Under legendary winemaker Paul Draper, Ridge Vineyards became renowned for the exceptional quality of its single-vineyard wines. Though Draper has now retired, the estate continues to produce terroir-focused wines with the same commitment to organic farming and traditional winemaking techniques. From the fine Bordeaux blends and Chardonnays of Monte Bello to the Zinfandels of Lytton Springs and Geyserville in Sonoma, and all points in between, Ridge Vineyards remains one of the most celebrated names in California wine.

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