When the slow smoked steak was ready, my husband opened up this 1995 Ridge Montebello. It is now 20 years old and the label on the Montebello says that now will be the appropriate time to drink this wine.
Saturday, January 30, 2016
1995 Ridge Montebello
Our friends are safely home from an 11 week journey down under! We invited them over for dinner and they shared with us another one of their 2009 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes. My husband made a very slow smoked filet mignon on our grill. It took 2 hours. While we were waiting for the steaks, we sipped the wonderful Burgundy with Les Clarines and aged manchengo and listened to tales of white water rafting and Tasmanian devils.
When the slow smoked steak was ready, my husband opened up this 1995 Ridge Montebello. It is now 20 years old and the label on the Montebello says that now will be the appropriate time to drink this wine.
The wine is a blend of 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc from the Santa Cruz mountains. Some of us smelled aromas of a nice Cuban cigar mated with red raspberries and sour cherries. Still holding on to it's fruit but with perfectly mellow tannins, it was the perfect foil for the filet mignon that was smoked to a cuts-like-butter perfection.
When the slow smoked steak was ready, my husband opened up this 1995 Ridge Montebello. It is now 20 years old and the label on the Montebello says that now will be the appropriate time to drink this wine.
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