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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 21 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by wynlvr on 5/22/2018 & rated 94 points: Who could ask for more? So good! (2379 views) | | | Tasted by wynlvr on 2/7/2018 & rated 93 points: lots of everything, fruit, and balance yet it is time to drink, it will not get any better (2425 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 4/9/2017 & rated 89 points: Long lived and deceptively complex, this shows bottle age nuances reminiscent of fall. Dried red fruit, blood orange, forest floor, pencil lead, and a hint of sweetness on the autumnal bouquet. The palate is complex, tertiary, and exceptionally balanced. Raspberry and blueberry fruit flavors show orange acidity and the slightest hint of caramel. The finish fades nicely. Well done. (3186 views) | | | Tasted by STEVEN@WINECELLARCLUB.COM on 9/10/2016 & rated 89 points: SHOWING MODERAGE AGE WITH COLOR ALMOST ORANGE. OVERPOWERING BERRY NOSE. LOTS OF ALCH AND A BIT ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES. RASBERRY FRUIT WELL BALANCED WITH ALCH BUT HUGE BODY. READY NOW. HALF BOTTLE. (3680 views) | | | Tasted by andtheodor on 5/27/2014 & rated 92 points: Dry strawberries, jerky, herbal tisane, tar. Sufficient acidity to support an exotic and savory old wine of real beauty. Love these. (5349 views) | | | Tasted by thelostverse on 4/15/2014 & rated 90 points: Dinner at Anvil with Allred. Color has gone towards brick red/orange showing its age. Notes of mushroom, tobacco, leather and other tertiary notes. Nose had a bordeaux-lite profile almost. Clearly on the downside of hill, but still a lovely bottle. (3322 views) | | | Tasted by AllRed on 4/15/2014 & rated 91 points: Opened 30-45 minutes or so, at which point one detects plum, red fruit, herbs, vanilla and licorice. Leather and tobacco notes emerge with additional time in the glass. Red fruit, plum and herb tones on the palate, maybe just a bit thin on the back end preventing a higher score but this is still damn fine juice. Drink now-2017. (3547 views) | | | Tasted by andtheodor on 4/5/2013 & rated 93 points: Cedar, strawberry, raspberry, great acidity and fresh sweet fruits. Leather, some antiseptic and caramel emerging with air. Quite mature but very fine, exactly what old Ridge should be! (3601 views) | | | Tasted by vine20 on 3/27/2013 & rated 91 points: Deep ruby with some mahogany throughout and a sweet, mature nose. Black cherries, cassis, cedar, barnyard in a balanced, silky whole. Fruit past its prime, tannins light. (3128 views) | | | Tasted by EllisWine on 7/21/2012 & rated 94 points: Amazingly spectacular for an old timer. Drinking beautifully gorgeous cedar and meat nose Lovely full mouth feel almost oily Long fruit and tobacco finish Truly an incredible Zin more like a perfect elderly Bordeaux (2085 views) | | | Tasted by tooch on 3/2/2012 & rated 91 points: Loire Wines at Lotus (Lotus of Siam - Las vegas, NV): Reductive nose at first with lots of funkiness. After an hour or so in the decanter the funk blew off and the wine became more approachable. Tasted blind, there would have been no way I would have pegged this as a zinfandel. It had violets, subtly cured meat, and spiced plum tones. (3201 views) | | | Tasted by zscheiner on 2/20/2012 & rated 91 points: Blind Tasting 1980-87 Ridge Geyservilles (Rich & Peggy's House, Los Altos, CA): Blackberry jam and black pepper. Light to medium body with medium+ acidity. Mix of tart and ripe raspberry and blackberry. Great acidity and balance. (my 3rd, group's 2nd) (2955 views) | | | Tasted by andtheodor on 12/13/2011 & rated 92 points: Subtle perfume with tobacco, fresh strawberry, emerging eucalyptus. Raspberry tea, caramel, bayleaf, palate with some mocha and licorice too. Delicate, herbal, almost weightless, what an amazing old wine. This is America's real wine heritage. (1864 views) | | | Tasted by yhn on 9/6/2010: Very different than my previous bottle - this seemed a lot younger and at an awkward in-between stage. Dark and inelegant, not showing its stuff. In retrospect, should've given it some time in a decanter. But popped when dinner was ready, based on how the previous bottle performed. (2196 views) | | | Tasted by glaze3 on 6/4/2010: Stored perfectly since release. Nose of urine when first opened had me me a little concerned, but blew off after 30 min. to show more of cedar and tobacco. Nice plum, tobacco, and a hint of brown sugar on the palate. No lack of fruit at this stage and plenty of nice acidity to keep it feeling pretty fresh for a 23 yr old Zin. Glad I still have one of these left and will hold for a least another year as this one seems to have plenty of life left. (2205 views) | | | Tasted by Mark on 5/12/2007 & rated 93 points: Knowing that my friend Ash was a very big Zin fan, I pulled my oldest Ridge, the 1987. I wasn’t sure what to expect, other than having very favorable experiences with older Ridges. This Geyserville was absolutely stunning. Aged dark amber, it looked more like an older Bordeaux and tasted very much the same. Earthy with barn and saddle leather elements, much closer to Bordeaux than zin in character. Absolutely fantastic and not at all expected. The wine took 15 minutes to open up , but was otherwise ready from the start. This bottle came directly from Ridge back in 2001, so the provenance was excellent and I’m sure made a difference. (2785 views) | | | Tasted by thewinelake on 7/27/2004 flawed bottle: Corked - moderately severely in my view (3196 views) | | | Tasted by stanoak on 11/17/2001 & rated 85 points: Past its prime (1907 views) | | | Tasted by buckeye76 on 10/18/1995 & rated 91 points: BIG ZIN! DEEP BLACKBERRY AND BLACKCURRENT NOSE. CHEWY, JAMMY FULL FLAVORED W/ TOUCH OF SPICE (1/91). NOW MORE OF A DRIED FRUIT NOSE, RASPBERRY FLAVOR. LONG FINISH. SAME SCORES AS EARLIER TSTG. (710 views) |
| Ridge Producer website | Wikipedia
Ridge Vineyards is a California winery specializing in premium Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Chardonnay wines. Ridge produces wine at two winery locations in northern California. The original winery facilities are located at an elevation of 2,300 feet (700 m) on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA near Cupertino, California. The other Ridge winery facilities are at Lytton Springs in the Dry Creek Valley AVA of Sonoma County.Ridge Geyserville(Ridge Spring 2012 Wine Club notes)
In 1966, Ridge made its first Geyserville from a strip of river rock and clay soils along the abandoned San Francisco and Northern Pacific tracks. Over time, we have added two adjoining vineyards on this same defined site. Each vintage is distinct but typical flavor characteristics include the blackest of blackberry fruit, ripe plum, cedar, and a distinctive mineral quality.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma CountySonoma Coast |
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