1993 Ridge Monte Bello
Community Tasting Note
karl.1480 wrote:
Monday, May 25, 2015 - Tasted along with '79 Lafite-Rothschild, '83 Margaux, '89 Latour, '94 Petrus and '98 Haut-Brion.
Clear, medium intensity ruby color.
The nose is developing with a medium(+) aroma intensity. Aromas of pure, dense black fruit. Fresh cassis and plums. There is lots of new oak with expensive vanilla, mocha, cold espresso and money. Sweet spice, new leather, cigars, grass and some floral notes of violets. This is deep, massive but a bit too much.
Dry on the palate with a medium acidity, medium(+) body and medium(+) rugged tannins. The flavor intensity is medium(+) with massive, sweet black fruit. Baked plums, expensive vanilla, fudge and leather. The finish is medium(+).
Well, this wine is clearly of outstanding quality but in tonights line-up it was out-staged. It lacked that elegance and finesse that one could find in the Bordeaux wines. However, it was fun to taste and this is a great bottle of Cab which drinking very well right now.
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Comment posted by mathwonk:
12/3/2015 12:06:00 PM - So a $180 bottle of CA wine was not as complex, refined or subtle as bottles of Bordeaux wine costing from $600 to $2,000 a bottle. I am glad much is still right with the world! Was this tasting choice motivated somehow by the results of the 2006 rejudgement of the 1976 Paris tasting? From my reading, that 2006 Ridge winner was a 1971, hence presumably sourced from the Eisele vineyard, never again used for the Monte Bello. It seems also that half the judges were from California, half from the UK, and none from the European continent.
http://www.vinography.com/archives/2006/05/the_rejudgment_of_paris_result.html