Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains (2019) Staff Picks Wingtine is its precise

Wingtine is its precise

The result is powerful but never heavy

The result is texture and depth without weight or oakiness

The 815 is his calling card: a Cabernet assembled from six appellations into something consistent

in Central Otago's Upper Clutha basin

Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains (2019) Staff Picks Wingtine is its preciseMonte Bello is the most famous wine in California, and one of the most celebrated in America. It was Ridge's 1971 Monte Bello that placed in the legendary 1976 Judgment of Paris the blind tasting where California Cabernet first beat the best of Bordeaux and it has been compared to the First Growths ever since. It comes from a single high mountain vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, planted on limestone soils that are rare in California and give the