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Red wine dry
Vineyard: Geyserville, hand-harvested. Fermentation on the native yeasts. Full malolactic fermenation. Aged for 12 months American oak barrels (20% new, 2% one year-old, 22% two years-old, 25% three years-old, 22% four years-old and 9% five years-old).Dark garnet red with classic Geyserville nose of ripe black cherry and plum, gravel, wintergreen, and beautiful oak spice. Deep and sensuously layered with polished tannins, river-rock minerality, and a long finish.Enjoyable now, this excellent wine will develop more complexity over the next fifteen years.Total acidity: 6.83 g/l.
Serve at 16 - 18 °C with beef steak, game dishes, red meat stews with mushroom.
A beautiful red with lots of blackberries, cloves, stone, spice and purple fruit. It’s full and balanced with a creamy texture and a flavorful finish. Some graphite to the black fruit. More zin this year in the blend. 71% zinfandel, 19% carignan, 7% petite sirah and 3% alicante bouschet. Drink now.
Though born in the early sixties (In 1962, Ridge made its first Monte Bello, two years later - Zinfandel) to the post-Prohibition world of modern California winemaking, Ridge relies on nature and tradition rather than technology. Our pre-industrial approach is straightforward: find intense, flavorful grapes; intrude upon the process only when necessary; draw the fruit’s distinctive character and richness into the wine.Interestingly, Monte Bello has often been called America’s First Growth, as it is the finest domestic example of a classic Bordeaux blend in which cabernet sauvignon predominates.
