Monte Bello 2017

2017 Monte Bello, bottled June 2019 Heavy winter rains saturated Monte Bello’s fractured limestone sub-soil, replenishing the vine’s water resources. Warm summer days, with unusually cold nights, slowly ripened the crop for an October harvest. By early winter, as malolactics finished, the wines were blind-tasted for assemblage. The final blend was made in May. Showing beautiful fruit and serious complexity in its youth, it will develop greater secondary flavors over the next thirty years. EB (4/19)