Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

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  • Robert Parker rating 96
  • Vinous rating 96
  • Jancis Robinson rating 18
Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
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HED93975

75 cl

13.5%
£250.00
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Recently introduced by Ridge, the Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 showcases a blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, matured in high-quality American oak. Displaying remarkable intensity, the wine boasts vibrant floral aromatics intertwined with enticing hedgerow fruit notes. While its tannins exhibit firmness, they possess a fine-grained texture, contributing to the wine`s overall balance and length. Even in its youthful state, this offering demonstrates exquisite poise, making it a superb choice for cellaring.
96 Vinous
The 2022 Monte Bello feels like a cooler-vintage wine, defying all expectations of the torrid growing season. Juicy, fresh and very old school, the 2022 sashays with true elegance as it unfurls into classic layers of cedar box, tobacco, grilled herbs, tart cherry and crushed rocks. A return to a more typical percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in this vintage can be felt in the wine`s upright build and darker aromatic shadings. Winemaker John Olney chose to keep the 2022 in barrel for 21 months, a little longer than usual, in an effort to tame its fierce young tannins. That prescription worked out swimmingly. The 2022 is a very serious, structured wine, but its textural polish is beyond reproach. It`s a Monte Bello that whispers rather than shouts. Time is very much on your side. Billy Norris28th October 2025
18 Jancis Robinson
Contains 10% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. 100% destemmed but not crushed. Fermented with ambient yeasts. Spends 19 months in 92% American oak, 8% French oak, all of it 100% new. Filtered before bottling. Very dark garnet with purple highlights. Aromas of black cherry, plum, dried minty herbs and a touch of whisky barrel. Gorgeously supple, fine-grained tannins coat the mouth and drape a core of black cherry, plum, plum skin, blueberries and liquorice root. Fantastic acidity keeps the wine bright and lithe across the palate, with no heaviness to accompany its intense fruit. Lovely and poised, with the oak very well integrated even at this young stage. This wine will get better and better for the next 15 to 20 years. Outstanding. (AY)

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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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