Ridge Monte Bello 2010 Aged White Ideal with barbecued meats and

Ideal with barbecued meats and traditional Italian specialties such as lasagne

Beautiful right now but able to be cellared up to 2040

it opens with notes of black fruit and subtle spice which fill out on an ample and complex mid-palate sustained by the caress of refined

this is a great red for matching with pork or mushrooms

and white-fleshed fruits

Ridge Monte Bello 2010 Aged White Ideal with barbecued meats andThe Monte Bello vineyard, located only 15 miles from the Pacific Ocean, is part of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA, Californias coolest cabernet producing area. Monte Bello has often been called Americas First Growth, as it is the finest domestic example of a classic Bordeaux blend in which cabernet sauvignon predominates. Intense briary mountain fruit, firm acid, black tea, chalky tannin, with mineral wet rock in a long finish. "The 2010 growing season