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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.2 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by mxpbuy on 12/22/2013 & rated 90 points: This one wasn't as musty out of the gate as some bottles I 've had, and came around beautifully in 30 minutes. Loads of black fruits with some dried herbs. Smooth and 20+ second finish. (2149 views) | | | Tasted by mxpbuy on 11/8/2013 & rated 89 points: Excellent fill and solid cork. Plenty of funk on the bottle for the first hour of decanting. Once it fully blew off, there was only muted black fruits remaining. On the palate this wine was silky smooth but a little flat compared to other bottles I've had of this wine. (2128 views) | | | Tasted by mxpbuy on 2/17/2013 & rated 90 points: High neck fill. No sign of age on this bottle. It took nearly 2 hours to fully open and even then it seemed like it was still in a bit of dumb phase. Almost creamy vanilla Oak with black cherries. Smooth as silk but a real mouthful. I've got a couple more of these and am tempted to let them sit for another couple years before I come back to them as I get the feeling the wine still has yet to fully bloom. (2330 views) | | | Tasted by mxpbuy on 2/3/2013 & rated 90 points: Less funk and more mint, mushrooms and black truffles than other bottle I recently consumed, but some dried dark fruit that is very understated in its sweetness. (2408 views) | | | Tasted by mxpbuy on 1/26/2013 & rated 92 points: The fill was into the neck, the cork soaked 2/3 of the way but solid. Color showed only modest signs of age. Still a dark plum to core. This bottle was spectacular, evolving in the glass over a couple hours but never dropping off. Upon first opening, tobacco, black currant and cedar dominated. After an hour, black cherry, some hard leather and menthol appeared. After a couple hours it was a blend of all three. The wine was smooth but the tannins were still very firm underneath. 30 second finish. A real mouthful and a great experience. (2348 views) | | | Tasted by sawira on 10/26/2011 & rated 94 points: Impressive. Typical Draper nose with some bretty plums, prunes, wood and leather - deep and rich. Very complex palate of red and purple fruits, great balance, dry with resolved tannins, a good bit of food friendly acidity and just a touch of pleasant grandma's furniture polish-like notes for complexity. Smoothing over the two hours into a long, soft and warming finish. This bottle is at its perfect peak, where it will decline slowly over the next 10-15 years. Brilliant. (1274 views) | | | Tasted by Hodby on 8/20/2011 & rated 85 points: Medium red-garnet. Leathery nose of plum, raisin, milk, American oak. Low tannin, low acidity. Essentially toothless but still serviceable at the table with with our charcuterie platters. There's a notable core of plummy fruit and a pleasant, milky texture to carry it along. Bottle # 5 of six. (1294 views) | | | Tasted by queneau on 12/7/2008 & rated 88 points: Amazing, after 23 years, this wine is still alive, with single dimensional aroma of characteristic blackberry jam; port like flavours, showing little sign of age, other than diminished tannins with no perceived flabbiness. When I open my last bottle of this jammy wine, I will make certain I accompany it with sourdough toast. (1329 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 7/14/2008 & rated 82 points: 1985s - Guess the Red Blindtasting (Los Altos, CA): Group's #1 (my #2) – 29 pts; 1 1st place vote, 5 2nd place votes, 0 thirds, 0 last places – Dark red violet color; sweet beef jus and charcoal nose; light bodied, over-the -hill charcoal, graphite and smoke palate; medium finish (1312 views) | | | Tasted by JBVino on 8/16/2006: Opened and poured into decanter...30min until consuming...cheese, dirty socks on the nose (old bordeaux) and initially absent of almost anything on the palate. Consumed over 2 hours or so...the opened and built a bit in size over the period with some pretty good tanins remaining but there was very little redemming quality to the wine...not bad just absent of any character at all. Disappointing as I love this vintage and tradtionally like this vineyard. (1638 views) | | | Tasted by buckeye76 on 11/23/1998 & rated 89 points: DEEP BERRY AROMAS WITH MINT, LICORICE, AND DRIED FRUITS. BLACK CURRENT AND JAMMY FRUIT IN THE FLAVOR. MEDIUM LENGTH FINISH. 4/90 TASTING =17/22/28/23=90. (334 views) | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 5/17/1989 & rated 92 points: With MPL and BLR and Donn Reisen of Ridge at the London Wine Bar. Black ruby. Fabulous nose. Very, very deep. Beautiful wine on the palate. Elegant yet firm. Fruity, yet has good backbone. Perfect balance. 5-12-17-8: 92/100. (180 views) |
| By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (7/14/2008)
(Ridge Petite Sirah York Creek) Group's #1 (my #2) – 29 pts; 1 1st place vote, 5 2nd place votes, 0 thirds, 0 last places – Dark red violet color; sweet beef jus and charcoal nose; light bodied, over-the -hill charcoal, graphite and smoke palate; medium finish 82 points |
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| 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.Petite Sirah Varietal character (Appellation America) | P.S. I Love You: A Petite Sirah Advocacy Organization
Petite Sirah is a variety of red wine grape grown in France, California, Israel and Australia. Recently, wineries located in Washington State's Yakima Valley, Maryland, Arizona, West Virginia, Mexico, Chile's Colchagua Valley and Maipo Valley, and Ontario's Niagara Peninsula have also produced wines from Petite Sirah grapes. Though developed in France, it is nearly extinct there as of 2002, hanging on in limited plantings in the Isère and Ardêche regions of the Rhône Valley and in Palette, a tiny appellation in Provence. It is the main grape known in the US and Israel as Petite Sirah with over 90% of the California plantings labeled "Petite Sirah" being Durif grapes; the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms recognizes "Durif" and "Petite Sirah" as interchangeable synonyms referring to the same grape. The grape originated as a cross of Syrah pollen germinating a Peloursin plant. On some occasions, Peloursin and Syrah vines may be called Petite Sirah, usually because the varieties are extremely difficult to distinguish in old age.
The 'petite' in the name of this grape refers to the size of its berries and not the vine, which is particularly vigorous. The leaves are large with a bright green upper surface and paler green lower surface. The grape forms tightly packed clusters that can be susceptible to rotting in rainy environments. The small berries creates a high skin to juice ratio which can produce very tannic wines if the juice goes through an extended maceration period. In the presence of new oak barrels the wine can develop an aroma of melted chocolate.
Petite Sirah produces dark, inky colored wines that are relatively acidic with firm texture and mouth feel. The bouquet has herbal and black pepper overtones, with plum and blackberry flavors on the palate. Compared to Syrah, the wine is noticeably more dark and purplish in color. The wines are very tannic with aging ability that can eclipse 20 years in the bottle.York CreekRidge Vineyards has a nice graphic showing the location of their Napa vineyards: York Creek and Dynamite Hill.
York Creek Vineyard, high atop Spring Mountain overlooking the Napa Valley. Zinfandel and petite sirah vines, planted 1970-1990.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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Spring Mountain DistrictWikipedia article on the Spring Mountain Distric AVA. |
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