1992 Ridge Monte Bello
Community Tasting Note
KeithAkers wrote:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Ridge Monte Bello Vertical 72-03 (Ken's house, northbrook IL): nose: lovely restrained and classy nose with pretty tones of black currants, cedar, bits of tobacco, black cherries, and some tones of perfumes. This was coming off rather tight for me and just didn't seem to want to give it a full go
taste: classy medium/full feel with good tannins. Lovely tones of cedar, menthol, tobacco, black cherries and bits of dark berries blend well together. Comes off as understated on the palate with really good depth and medium+ acidity
overall: my no6, group's no2. To me this just didn't seem fully ready for primetime, or at least it wasn't giving me its all in the glass. Following up the 91 was a hard act to follow and this was rather taught for me in both the glass and on the palate. It needs a real good decant or more time sideways as the color on it wasn't really showing much age to it, and there was certainly no way to guess that this was about to turn 17 years old if the vintage wasn't known
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