table wine 1997 Wine Red Table Wine
- Type:
Red
- Winery:
table wine
- Vintage:
1997
- Varietal:
Wine
- Region:
Santa Cruz Mountains
- Vineyard:
Ridge
How Was It?
About
"Notes on the Ridge Monte Bello Red Table Wine Santa Cruz Mnts. 1997 (90-91) Pts Wine Advocate : WINEMAKER NOTES: his most unusual year began with torrential winter rains, followed by a long, mild spring. Flowering was early; the amount of fruit formed was unusually large. We dropped nearly twenty percent of the crop, bringing yields down to two tons per acre - and assuring intensity. This was the earliest vintage since 1962. All thirty-three parcels were fermented separately, on their natural yeast; in a return to methods employed in the sixties and seventies, part of the malolactic took place in barrel. The wine was aged for eighteen months, almost entirely in new, air-dried american oak. Ripe and well-structured, this Monte Bello is among the finest of a great decade. It is approachable as a young wine, and will develop fully over the next fifteen years.RIDGE MONTE BELLO RED TABLE WINE SANTA CRUZ MNTS. 1997 (90-91) PTS WINE ADVOCATE"
