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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by andtheodor on 1/25/2017 & rated 91 points: I don't say it often about Ridge wines but this is slipping over the hill. Immaculate bottle with high fill, great cork, and ruby color still but the strawberry tisane vibe is faded in intensity, still a bit juicy and cinnamon/clove spice but feels like the volume is dialed down a bit. Drink up. (2339 views) | | | Tasted by JJKinch on 12/17/2016 & rated 92 points: Red fruit (cherry, slight blueberry), good spice, nice acidity. Slight smokiness,slight tobacco/ leather?, slight pine. Lingering finish (close to 60 seconds). Really enjoyable. (1813 views) | | | Tasted by JJKinch on 1/13/2015 & rated 92 points: Dark fruits (blueberry, cherry), nice spice, nice cassis - tastes almost like a good old California cabernet. Nice acidity. Nice tobacco, slight leather. Lingering finish (45 seconds). Really well knit. Nice herbal quality. Really enjoyable - drinking great. (2808 views) | | | Tasted by tarheel17 on 4/18/2009 flawed bottle: Geyserville Vertical (My House): nose: brighter and deeper than the 1988, more brambly, but a little flat?
palate: stronger acidity, brighter and more intense in the mought, but not as intense as the 1991. Turned out to be corked, but apparently, I'm not that sensitive to it. (5564 views) | | | Tasted by gregg g on 11/9/2006: 17 vintages of Ridge Zinfandel, '67 & '78 Stony Hill & Dessert Wines (Campanile in Los Angeles, CA.): An off vintage in California yet this wine managed show very well. There was a clear note of mint/spearmint with an herbal quality that remined throughout the night. The palate was not as intriguing as the nose with less structure as in slightly disjointed. The finish seemed to dry out and shorten. Still an interesting wine in the line up. (6732 views) | | | Tasted by sol on 4/13/2006 & rated 89 points: Good, but not too much life left I think. Nose was better than the mouthfeel. Slightly glycerin finish. (4223 views) | | | Tasted by buckeye76 on 4/17/1995 & rated 90 points: PINK ON THE EDGE. PLUMS, FIGS, CHOCOLATE, AND TOBACCO IN THE NOSE NICE FRUIT IN THE FLAVOR WITH A TOUCH OF SPICE. MEDIUM LENGTH FINISH. (606 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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