Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

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  • Vinous rating 100
  • Jancis Robinson rating 96
  • Robert Parker rating 93
Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
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HED75870

75 cl

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£219.00
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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 2016 release is superb. Composed of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot and 65% Cabernet Franc, it is jam-packed with notes of black fruits, dried flowers, tobacco, woody spices and graphite minerality. Full-bodied and firmly textured, it has youthful appeal but will require several years cellaring to unleash its undoubted potential.
100 Vinous
The 2016 Monte Bello is a masterful expression of this lauded site in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It’s powerful, broad and infinitely layered, but it also possesses an incredibly finessed tannin structure that speaks clearly and forcefully but yields dutifully. Saturated blueberry, gravel, eucalyptus, charcoal, cedar and India ink build gradually and steadily through the long and sizzling finish. Just beginning to soften and develop beyond the primary stage, it wouldn’t be a crime to open a bottle now, but this has many, many lives left to live and should be even better (if you can fathom) in a few more years. This is what Monte Bello is all about.Billy Norris22nd October 2024
96 Jancis Robinson
The 2016 Monte Bello is savory and delectable, showing early hints of evolution past its youthful primary phase. Fragrant but reserved at first, aromas of black tea, black truffle, turned earth and dried plums appear. Medium-bodied, succulent and sponge-like on the palate, the finish shows off vibrant, scrumptious acidity with slowly integrating but grippy tannins. Easing into a window of early consumption, this has another two decades of power in it, with further evolution beyond that likely. It contains 12% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot and 6% Cabernet Franc.Matthew Luczy18th April 2024

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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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