Community Tasting Note

• KeithAkers wrote: 88 points

  October 6, 2009 - Ridge Monte Bello Vertical 72-03 (Ken's house, northbrook IL): nose: fairly evolved nose with tones of dill, anisette, dark red cherries, tobacco leaf, and a good amount of menthol tones. Good nose, but its almost comes off as monte bello-lite. It doesn't have the depth that other vintages have had and it seems fully at its peak, and is showing itself to be extremely mature at what should be a young age
  
  taste: very good medium feel that comes off as fairly well evolved with tones of herbs, dill, dark red cherries and a good amount of menthol. Has nice weight on the palate, but the finish is rather clipped and doesn't really have the depth and expression that other MBs have brought in the vertical
  
  overall: my no7, group's no 7. This just falls short for me. Its almost a mini-monte bello if you will. It just doesn't have the expression that the others have had to make up for not having the screaming depth that some of the better ones have had, and is very shot on the finish. THe nose almost came off as too evolved for a wine of this age, even considering the vintage as two of the older monte bellos were from difficult vintages. Sometimes mother nature doesn't give the best to work with, and that came off a bit here

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