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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$81.59
Coming from the pure shale soils of a site perched 1800 feet above the fog line, the 2020 Chardonnay Peter Martin Ray...
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Domaine Eden Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$59.77
The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon is fabulous. A rush of floral and spice notes leads into a core of racy purplish fruit....
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$126.88
#52 in Top 100, 2022. A brilliant, youthful, unevolved wine that will give Ridge's Monte Bello a run for its money,...
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Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Estate 2017
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$75.43
The 2017 Chardonnay Estate is beautifully expressed this vintage, scented of warm citrus, honeycomb and a singular...
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Mount Eden Vineyards Pinot Noir Estate 2012
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$199.31
The varietal character emphasizes wild strawberry, earth, blueberry and dill. Elegance and transparency is the key to...
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Rhys Chardonnay Horseshoe Vineyard 2018
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$146.24
Always a singular, exotic wine, the 2018 Chardonnay Horseshoe Vineyard has an incredible bouquet of crushed stone,...
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Rhys Pinot Noir Alpine Vineyard 2018
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$168.36
The 2018 Pinot Noir Alpine Vineyard is darker in color and more aromatically dazzling out of the gate than its...
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Rhys Pinot Noir Alpine Vineyard 2019
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$168.36
I loved the 2019 Pinot Noir Alpine Vineyard, a spicy, perfumed, more ethereal Pinot Noir from a great vineyard in the...
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Rhys Pinot Noir Horseshoe Vineyard 2018
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$168.36
The 2018 Pinot Noir Horseshoe Vineyard is dense and brooding. Black cherry, licorice, spice, leather, herbs and...
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Rhys Pinot Noir Horseshoe Vineyard 2019
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$197.30
The 2019 Pinot Noir Horseshoe Vineyard is one of the most powerful, structured wines in this lineup. It has so much...
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Rhys Syrah Horseshoe Vineyard 2012
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$103.45
A stunner, the 2012 Syrah Horseshoe Vineyard sports an inky ruby/purple color to go with loads of back raspberry,...
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Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Estate 2017
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$95.22
Ridge’s 2017 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is a fabulous choice for readers who want a Monte Bello fix now, without...
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Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Monte Bello 2001
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$987.94
Expansive black-fruit aromas, plus some mulberry and bitter chocolate, make this mature Californian red hard to...
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Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Monte Bello 2003
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$339.48
This has a wonderful balance of full, silky tannins and creamy ripeness, but with a degree of delicacy that...
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Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Monte Bello 2008
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$347.82
The 2008 Monte Bello is in a gorgeous spot right now, as the aromatics are just starting to show the complex nuances...
United States California Santa Cruz County Pre-Arrival
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.