Ridge Vineyards – The 2024 Golden Vine® Fine Wine & Experience Online Auction Lot

Aug 5

Summary

Santa Cruz Mountains Experience includes 6-Litre of 2004 Ridge Monte Bello signed by legendary winemaker, Paul Draper, along with a VIP tour, tasting and vineyard visit at Ridge’s winery, Monte Bello, in Santa Cruz for 4 guests.

Region

California

Country

USA

Estimate

£5,000 - £8,000

Lot Components

Fine Wine Bottles ✓

Experience ✓

Estate Visit ✓

Vineyard Visit ✓

Tasting ✓

The Fine Wine

6-Litre - 2004 Ridge, Monte Bello, Santa Cruz Mountains.

Monte Bello is first and foremost a wine of place. That place – high atop the Santa Cruz Mountains underlain by decomposing limestone and Franciscan rock – produces a wine unlike any other. This 6-Litre from the 2004 vintage was cellared at the winery since its bottling, and signed by legendary Winemaker, Paul Draper.

The Experience

Vip tour, vineyard visit and tasting for 4 guests at Ridge, Monte Bello.

The Estate

In 1962, Ridge Vineyards made its first Monte Bello, and two years later its first zinfandel. Since that time, Ridge has championed single-vineyard winemaking, searching California for those rare and exceptional vineyards where climate, soil, and variety are ideally matched. For more than six decades, Ridge Vineyards has been recognized by top critics and our peers for our consistent quality and steadfast approach to winemaking.

“Ridge Monte Bello is considered by many to be among the best wines in the world, and certainly among the most, if not the most famous, from California. Through its Monte Bello Cabernet-based bottling, Ridge helped show that California wine could compete with the most respected wines in the world. At the same time, no other winery in California has done so much to elevate Zinfandel from its early reputation as jug wine to fine wine respectability.”

— Elaine Chukan Brown, JancisRobinson.com

Terms & Conditions

The experience to be taken up by December 31st, 2026.

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