Wine Review: Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Santa Cruz Mountains 2019

For today's tasting Wine-Searcher’s Wine Director David Allen MW, tastes a truly iconic Californian wine from one of his favorite producers Ridge Vineyards. Grown high in the Sana Cruz Mountains Ridge Montebello is one of the finest and most elegant Cabernet Sauvignon blends produced in California. - The wine in question is Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Santa Cruz Mountains 2019. N.B. the wine has been accessed using a Coravin.

Ridge Vineyards is a famed Californian wine producer who, in its current form was founded in 1962, and based in the Santa Cruz Mountains, but with vineyards in several parts of the state. Its flagship wine, Monte Bello, is a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated Bordeaux blend known for delivering the complexity and elegance of Bordeaux wines, as well as typical California fruit intensity.

It is also well known for its range of Zinfandel wines and Zinfandel-based blends, led by the Geyserville cuvée. Wines made from Petite Sirah, Carignan and a Grenache – Mataro blend have also been longstanding features in the range, and Ridge has made a small amount of Chardonnay each vintage for many decades.

Discover more about this wine, its pricing and where to buy it by following this link to the Wine-Searcher website: https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/ri...

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