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- 1984 Ridge Monte Bello
Single Bottle - Standard - 750ml
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Start Time: | May 12, 2022 3:00:00 pm |
Close Time: | May 19, 2022 3:00:00 pm |
Tasting Notes:
Garnet, with earthy, funky, old shoe aromas, with a faint glimmer of black cherry, finishing with a drying aftertaste. Well past its prime, though palatable.--California Cabernet '74/'84/'94 retrospective. Drink now. 3,125 cases made.
Tasting Notes:
Fully mature, yet still beautiful, the 1984 Monte Bello offers classic mature Bordeaux notes of currants, truffles, underbrush and cured meats to go with a medium to full-bodied, elegant, silky and completely integrated feel on the palate. It's a beautiful, layered and classy wine to drink on a special occasion over the coming 5-10 years.
Tasting Notes:
Dates, and Turkish delight and sultanas. Fascinating nose. Full and round with soft tannins and a vanilla tea flavor with hints of fruits. Subtle and friendly. Like a cashmere cardigan with holes in the elbows. Lovely old wine.
- : BVHK00013938
- : 1984
- : Standard - 750ml
- : Mid Neck
- : Good/Original Label
- : Usual Cork
- : Single Bottle
- : 13.1%
- : Ridge
- : Red Bordeaux Blend
- : Monte Bello
- : Red
- : Santa Cruz Mountains
- : USA
- : California
- : San Francisco Bay
- : 2015 - 2025
- : 91
- : 94
- : 82
Although Ridge Vineyards was founded in the early 1960s, wine production at the winery's Monte Bello location has a much longer history. Grapevines were first planted on Monte Bello Ridge by Osea Perrone, a doctor and prominent member of the northern California Italian immigrant community, in 1885. The first Monte Bello wine was produced in 1892. Following Prohibition, the vineyard at Monte Bello passed through the hands of several amateur winemakers until it was purchased in 1959 by David Bennion, Charles Rosen, Hewitt Crane, and Howard Zeidler, all engineers at nearby Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Ridge Vineyards was bonded and produced its first commercial wine, a Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon, in 1962.
According to a 1987 New York Times article, Ridge Vineyards was acquired by a Japanese company. "The new owner is Otsuka U.S., a subsidiary of the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, a producer of nutritional drinks and other pharmaceutical products. Otsuka operates an experimental wine-making center near Fuji, in Japan."
Ridge has been under the direction of winemaker Paul Draper since 1969, when he was hired by David Bennion, and has emphasized natural, ecologically sustainable farming and fermentation. Draper is known for drying his own oak staves for use in barrels, which may be a component of the dusty "Draper Perfume" that is characteristic of Ridge wines.
The international reputation of the Monte Bello wine produced by Ridge Vineyards was established when it achieved fifth place in the "Judgment of Paris", against nine other French and California wines. Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon was acclaimed in subsequent competitions, including The Judgment of Paris 30th Anniversary, the 30th anniversary retesting of the same red wines evaluated in the 1976 Paris wine competition. In this blind tasting, held both in the US and the UK, judges in both countries ranked Ridge Monte Bello number one among all the wines judged.
Ridge Vineyards produced its first Zinfandel in 1964. Beginning in 1966, the winery began sourcing some grapes for its Geyserville Zinfandel and other wines from vineyards in Sonoma County. In 1991, Ridge Vineyards purchased the Lytton Springs vineyard in the Dry Creek Valley AVA. The winery produces wine at both the Monte Bello and Lytton Springs locations, and operates tasting rooms open to the public at both.
On June 25th, 2014, The Daily Meal named Ridge Vineyards the best winery in America.
Ridge also focuses on single-estate wines where the grapes for a particular label are all grown at the same vineyard. The signature wine of Ridge is its Monte Bello, a field blend of Cabernet Sauvignon mixed with varying percentages of other grapes grown in the same location, usually including Merlot, Petit Verdot, and occasionally Cabernet Franc.
Ridge's Zinfandels (or mostly-Zinfandel field blends) constitute the bulk of the winery's production. Using grapes from selected sites from all over the state and bottling them each under their own label, Ridge Zinfandels emphasize the particular characteristics of each growing site and may show different aging characteristics than do other Zinfandels. Among the best known of the Ridge Zinfandels or Zinfandel-blends are those from Geyserville, York Creek, and Lytton Springs.
Jeb Dunnuck
94
Fully mature, yet still beautiful, the 1984 Monte Bello offers classic mature Bordeaux notes of currants, truffles, underbrush and cured meats to go with a medium to full-bodied, elegant, silky and completely integrated feel on the palate. It's a beautiful, layered and classy wine to drink on a special occasion over the coming 5-10 years.
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JL
82
Garnet, with earthy, funky, old shoe aromas, with a faint glimmer of black cherry, finishing with a drying aftertaste. Well past its prime, though palatable.--California Cabernet '74/'84/'94 retrospective. Drink now. 3,125 cases made.
April 9, 2012
91
Dates, and Turkish delight and sultanas. Fascinating nose. Full and round with soft tannins and a vanilla tea flavor with hints of fruits. Subtle and friendly. Like a cashmere cardigan with holes in the elbows. Lovely old wine.
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