Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

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  • Vinous rating 95
  • Robert Parker rating 94
Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2006
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HED86346

75 cl

13.6%
£280.00
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Ridge Vineyards was founded in 1962 and is widely considered one of the greatest and most consistent producers in California. Produced from their oldest vines in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Monte Bello is unquestionably the flagship wine and in 2006 was made up of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. It is still firmly structured and youthful but exhibits delicious notes of crème de cassis, mulberry, chocolate, cigar box and graphite. As ever it is supremely well balanced and has plenty of mileage left in it.
95 Vinous
A dark, brooding beauty, the 2006 Monte Bello is still very, very young. The aromatics alone are enticing, but the tannins still need time to soften. The 2006 is a masculine, vertical Monte Bello that demands cellaring. Even so, it is pretty impressive today. Scents of lavender, sage, mint and savory herbs add closing flourishes. The perfumed sweetness of the fruit - one of the hallmarks of the very late harvest - remains one of the signatures of the 2006. The 2006 can be enjoyed today or cellared for another 25+ years.Antonio Galloni1st July 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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