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Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello 1997

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Scores

Two measures, kept apart on purpose. One is about the bottle, the other about the year.

Wine Score

94 / 100

Critic evidence
Critic: not reviewed
Community evidence
Community 94 from 321 notes

how we score

Region Vintage

92 / 100

Santa Cruz Mountains · 1997

Thin evidence for this region and year.

Not part of the Wine Score.

Method region_vintage_v1

Drinking window

2001now 20262011
On our estimate the window closed in 2011. Estimated — no published window for this wine. Modelled from 28 comparable wines in California Other.

Price

Merchant price range, per 750ml

No merchant price we can stand behind.

Our own summary of 2 tracked offers. It is not a merchant listing, and nobody will sell you a bottle at the median. The individual listings are below.

Price basis not confirmed, may or may not include UK duty and VAT.

Prices read 2026-10-04. We hold one dated snapshot of merchant prices rather than a series, so there is no retail price chart on this page. The one price history we do own is trade based: the market index.

Where to buy

Retail route

3 observations from 3 venues; 1 with unknown format, prices shown as listed below. A shelf price is what a merchant listed on the date shown; no bidding, no premium.

Retail asks, cheapest first, with the venue and the source behind each one.
VenuePrice
vinpark.ch · £258per 750ml · from 1500 ml
christianwinecellars.com · £300as listed · unit not recorded
goedhuis.com · £57per 750ml · from 6 × 750 ml

Auction route

No auction activity in the tracked window.

No auction activity in the tracked window.

Work out the true landed cost →

What it has fetched at auction, year by year: Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello 1997 price history.

No LWIN recorded for this bottling.