Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello 2012, Santa Cruz Mountains
Critic Reviews (4)
The 2012 Monte Bello is a beautifully wild and savage, savoury wine, with significant density and tightly knit...
This wine has a wonderfully expressive and complex nose with lifted aromas of cassis, blackberry and blueberry fruit...
Well the pricing is up to you, but this has a glorious cabernet nose, and all the elegance and tension you could hope...
Pours a deep violet hue. A refreshingly, almost tart blend for 2012. Love the notes of anise, sage, black plum and...
Community Reviews (1)
This review is for the 375 ml bottle. Entering prime drinking now. Lovely complex flavours of raspberry, black cherry, blackberry and cassis (in the dried and almost prune-like realm), with a beguiling herbal note, clove, cigar box, leather, chocolate, vanillin and a hint of volatile acidity. Tannins are ripe and softening and the acidity is vibrantly juicy. Complex, concentrated, harmonious and very, very long. Jan. 2022.