2008 Ridge, California Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains, Bottle (750ml)
Price On Request
95+RP
Critic key
RP = Robert Parker
- Rating
- RP95+
- Producer
- Ridge Monte Bello
- Vintage
- 2008
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Santa Cruz Mountains
- Country
- United States
- Format
- Bottle
- Volume
- 750mL
- ABV
- 13.3
- Type
- Still
- Color
- Red
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Product Description
RP95+ "The 2008 Monte Bello ... At age ten, this muscular Monte Bello is finally beginning to unwind, offering up rich aromas of black cherry, cassis, dried mountain laurel, loamy soil and burning embers. On the palate, it's full-bodied, expansive and powerful, its generous, sweetly fruited attack giving way to a taut, firm mid-palate that doesn't show as much finesse as the 2010 or 2012, concluding with a long, stony finish. Baugher observes that in its youth, the 2008 was "monolithic and more angular - a mouthful of tannin" WK May 2018
Ridge, California Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains
Ridge, California Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains