Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

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  • Vinous rating 96
  • Robert Parker rating 95
  • Jancis Robinson rating 17
Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
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75 cl

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£225.00
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Unquestionably Californian winemaking royalty, Ridge Vineyards continue to produce sensational wines of exceptional quality and remarkable longevity. From the Monte Bello estate vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the 2015 is a stunning release. A blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc, it exhibits beautiful notes of black cherry, crème de cassis, wild herbs, dark chocolate and spice. Full-bodied, rich and intense, it is tightly coiled and clearly built for the long haul. Wait a few years before opening and then enjoy over the next few decades.
96 Vinous
The 2015 Monte Bello is still a well-protected fortress of a wine. A more red-fruited and tobacco-laden Monte Bello, it’s mouthwateringly juicy and stubbornly tightly wound, giving rise to the question of whether it will ever let its guard down. Even so, the stuffing is undeniably there, so you might as well just keep waiting. Of course, the risk is that this wine may outlast all of us before it ever truly gives up the goods. Check on it again in five years. Billy Norris22nd October 2024
17 Jancis Robinson
Black cherry and firm tannins, glossy and more than a little volatile. Finest tannic fur and loads of intensity. The fruit verges on candied, but is no less delicious for that. Even so, this hasn’t blown my socks off. (RH)

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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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