Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains (2019) Staff Picks The 815 is his calling

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

which sits just off-dry - a touch softer and rounder than a brut - so it's easy

Itération N°26 brings together 2012

in Central Otago's Upper Clutha basin

They make just two wines from the site

Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains (2019) Staff Picks The 815 is his callingMonte 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