Ridge Monte Bello

Ridge Monte Bello

Vintage: 2013
Description: "The 2013 Monte Bello is a very special vintage for this great wine. Amazingly, it has yet to shut down, unfurling in the glass to reveal a bouquet of black raspberries, cassis, rich espresso roast, cigar wrapper, subtle black truffle and burning embers that has already integrated its 100% new oak remarkably completely. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, powerful and multidimensional, with a lavishly textural attack that segues into a stunningly layered, richly structured mid-palate endowed with incredible depth and concentration underpinned by succulent acids. The finish is long, vibrant and beautifully delineated. The 2013 is a blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Petit Verdot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 5% Merlot, and it attained 13.6% natural alcohol. Analytically, this ranks as one of the most tannic vintages of Monte Bello ever produced, but the tannins are of such high quality and cloaked in such a wealth of fruit that Ridge forwent their habitual egg white fining this yearbeginning a trend that has continued since. This profound Monte Bello will begin to blossom as it reaches age ten and should prove practically immortal." - William Kelley, robertparker.com (May 31, 2018)
Price: $ 469.00
Price in original currency: None

Available from Belmont Wine Exchange

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San Carlos, CA  94070
United States
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First added to 1000 Corks on December 22, 2016.