Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon Half 2021

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon Half 2021

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Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon Half 2021
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37.5 cl

13.5%
£120.00
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The Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 is an exceptional blend composed of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 4.5% Petit Verdot, and 0.5% Cabernet Franc. Despite being a small vintage, it impresses with a rich and spicy character, possibly heightened by the dry conditions of the year. Yet, it maintains an effortless refinement. Precise and perfectly ripe blackberry fruit intertwines with a myriad of savoury complexities, culminating in a truly world-class wine. Available in half-bottles.
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The 2021 Monte Bello is a top-tier wine from this reverential site in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The blend contains quite a bit more Merlot than usual (31%), which is a reflection of reduced Cabernet yields stemming from the drought-riddled 2021 growing season. Broad, infinitely layered and rooted in deep spice tones, the 2021 opens with a forceful kick of wild blackberry and orange peel, delving deeper into complex layers of black olive, new leather, violet and sweet pipe tobacco. Surprisingly giving and undeniably fresh, the 2021 is precise, laser-focused and propulsive, stationing the midline of the palate with an army of well-honed tannins and culminating in a finish that seemingly never ends. This is everything Monte Bello should be.Billy Norris22nd October 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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