Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 1992

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 1992

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  • Vinous rating 96
  • Robert Parker rating 95
  • Jancis Robinson rating 18
Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 1992
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HED87301

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96 Vinous
The 1992 Monte Bello from Ridge came in a magnum. Black plum and iodine, melted dark chocolate, cassis and peppermint on the complex nose, a scent of a Wellington boot emerging with aeration! The palate is beautifully balanced, still youthful and vibrant with almost pixelated fruit, star anis towards the persistent finish. Perhaps provenance and format played a role here, but this is absolutely delicious. Tasted at the "Judgement of Clapham Junction" dinner in London. — Neal Martin, 1st March 2022
95 Robert Parker
The 1992 Monte Bello was the product of a superb harvest, with temperate summer and autumn weather and ample yields. The particular magnum I tasted was quite a moving target in the glass, and its performance was surely hindered by the substantial sediment in the pour I happened to receive. The wine opens with beautiful floral and minty notes that gradually fuse with classic pipe tobacco, loamy soil and truffle accents, though increasingly medicinal overtones came forward with aeration, marring the clarity first glimpsed at the first pour. The mouthfeel is suave, dense and richly concentrated, then concludes with an earth-inflected finish that feels relatively lackluster and a touch blurry, especially given the generosity and power that precedes it. I hope to have the chance to reevaluate this wine in the future. The blend is 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot and 9% Petit Verdot with a natural alcohol content of 13.5%. — Matthew Luczy, 30th April 2026
18 Jancis Robinson
Great complexity. Medicinal, racy and lively. Very subtle and dry – not very typically Californian! I think I would have guessed French if given it blind. (JR) — Jancis Robinson, 18th September 2016

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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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