Ridge Vineyards Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, 2021 Carpano and carrying hints of grapefruit

and carrying hints of grapefruit and spices rather than red-berry fruits

his requirements: good drainage

with some real weight

and Merlot

The colour is a bright gold

Ridge Vineyards Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, 2021 Carpano and carrying hints of grapefruitIn 1886 the first blocks of the Monte Bello vineyard were planted and construction on the winery begun. The first vintage was the 1892. In the early 1940s, the last of the old vineyard was abandoned; in the late forties a few blocks were replanted. Those cabernet vinesnow over sixty five years oldproduced the first Ridge Monte Bello (1962) and subsequent vintages until 1974. By then other abandoned blocks had been replanted and their fruit considered