Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum 2009

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£449.00

Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum 2009

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Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum 2009

HED53475

150 cl

13.5%

£449.00

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Storing with Hedonism Wines

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Hedonism Wines is pleased to offer bonded storage to our clients, providing a secure, fully insured, and professionally managed facility for en primeur and under-bond purchases. Our storage service ensures that your fine wines are kept in optimal conditions until you are ready to enjoy them.

Why Choose Bonded Storage with Hedonism Wines?

Your wines will be stored at our bonded storage facility, a highly regarded bonded warehouse in Essex, just outside London. With over a decade of experience handling and storing fine wines and spirits, our facility maintains strict temperature and humidity controls to ensure your collection is preserved at its best.

Key benefits include:

One year of free storage when you start storing at Hedonism Wines.
Competitive storage rates: £15 per 12-bottle case per year, £7.50 per 6-bottle case per year, equivalent to £1.25 per standard bottle. Alternative formats will be charged accordingly.
Full insurance coverage for loss or breakage.
Quick and efficient delivery: Wines can be cleared and delivered within the UK in 3-4 working days.
Quarterly invoicing for storage fees to keep the process simple and transparent.
Easily manage your stored wines online, request condition reports, and track your collection effortlessly.
Flexibility to store wines purchased elsewhere, subject to our approval.

Storage Pricing

Below is a summary of our bonded storage costs:

Service	Cost
Inbounding fee	Free
Withdrawal fee	Free
Storage and insurance (12-bottle case)	£15 per year
Storage and insurance (6-bottle case)	£7.50 per year

Duty Charges

Below is a summary of the new duty charges per bottle as of February 2026. Please note that these vary depending on the ABV and are subject to change. Please get in touch if you require more information:

Product	Duty charge
Wine 12.5% ABV	£2.87 per 75cl bottle
Wine 13.5% ABV	£3.10 per 75cl bottle
Wine 14.5% ABV	£3.33 per 75cl bottle
Spirits 45% ABV	£11.47 per 70cl bottle

Transparent Billing and Rate Calculations

Annual Billing: Clients are invoiced annually based on the wines stored in the preceding year.
Case Equivalents: A case is defined as 9 litres of wine (typically twelve 750ml bottles), ensuring clarity in pricing.
Pro-Rata Charges: Storage fees are charged on a per-bottle basis, and wines stored for part of a month will be billed accordingly.

How to Use Our Bonded Storage

Purchase en primeur or under-bond wines from Hedonism Wines.
Automatically enjoy twelve months of free storage at our bonded storage when you open your storage account.
After twelve months, your storage will continue at the rates outlined above, with quarterly invoicing.
When you are ready to receive your wines, simply request delivery. Most orders are fulfilled within 3-4 working days.

With Hedonism Wines' bonded storage, you can buy with confidence, knowing your wines are in safe hands until you are ready to enjoy them. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about our storage service, please contact our team.

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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 the sublime 2009 impressively combines 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and 6% Petit Verdot. Full-bodied and statuesque, a wonderful core of rich dark fruit, spice and minerality lies within. Seamlessly balanced and endlessly vibrant, this is a magnificent release with exceptional aging potential.

2009

Red

Ridge

California, United States

95 Vinous

The 2009 Monte Bello is poured blind from magnum. It is lavish and youthful on the nose; a veneer of luxuriant new oak is proportionate to the concentrated fruit behind it with irresistible vanillary black fruit, cassis and violets. The palate is pure and concentrated, satin-like in texture and glossy merely by dint of its youth. This is a decade at least from its drinking window, but the quality is evident, and the purity on the Margaux-like finish is exquisite. Gorgeous. Tasted at Burns & German's dinner to celebrate The Complete Bordeaux Vintage Guide book at Medlar. Neal Martin26th December 2023

18 Jancis Robinson

72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot. A long, cold winter and cool spring led to a late start, but warm summer weather brought the vines back on schedule. The last grapes were picked on October 12, one day before torrential rains. Harvest 23 September to 12 October. Grapes were destemmed, and left uncrushed as whole berries. Automated berry sorting followed by hand-sorting. Natural primary and secondary fermentations. Pressed at six days. 19 months in barrel (97% new air-dried American oak, 2% new French oak, 1% one-year-old air-dried American oak).Very deep crimson. This smells like bordeaux! But less ripe and blowsy than many red bordeaux 2009s. Medium body again with a rich panoply of flavours: balsam, dried leaves, well-mannered cassis, quite marked fine tannins in the background – for future use? Just the sort of restrained build that bordeaux used to be. Still quite dry on the end. (JR)Jancis Robinson25th October 2022

Ridge

Mountain Wines of Distinction

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.

California, United States

Ridge