1976 Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Monte Bello

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  12/25/2023 - TahoeSki wrote:

  This was excellent and better than the 1989 Pichon-Longueville Baron the previous night. Highly underrated (self) and impressed it has lasted so long so well. Can’t imagine improving so suggest drinking if you have. But really impressed. Know Napa has it in it to last this long but still. And has to be very, very few and far between that can. Almost 40 years….. wow. No formal notes. Too busy celebrating with family.

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  11/18/2023 - hprphf wrote: 92 Points

  Nose is very good, dimensional, dark fruit, super fresh. Palate is slightly weaker showing thin structure. 92-93

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  11/21/2022 - Neecies wrote:

  An incredible bottle from WT. Not decanted/just Andouzed 8 hours prior, and it even improved for hours after serving. As close as it gets to immortal. A privilege.

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  11/19/2022 - WST Likes this wine:

  My bottle. Served blind to the rest of the tasting group. Andouzed for 8 hours, no decant. Gorgeous on the nose and on the palate. Black cherries, cassis, cinnamon, truffles and more. Eternal finish. A few sips left in the glass for four hours were even better. It developed a beautiful minty note with air. No only didn't it decline, it improved. It could have used a decant, but was outstanding without it.
  Ready the other notes on CT illustrated the view that there are no great wines, only great bottles. This was a magnificent bottle, and it takes its place amongst my most memorable wines. Strong praise from a Europhile.

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  10/30/2020 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Old Napa Wines Dinner (Joseph's Place, Wong Chung Hang, Hong Kong): Drank blind in a long line of older Napa reds. Slightly dusty but clean-jeweled transparent ruby colour. Nose is immediately "oh, this is special"...very light but ethereal, hints of smoke in a pork ribs on a barbecue kind of way. Palate is rounded, fully resolved tannins, medium weight and quite feminine. But....it came with an impressive explosion of resonant power and length on the finish. I upped it a point for the finish.

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