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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.8 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 9/12/2015 flawed bottle: Magnum Man Cellar Depletion (Northfield, IL): Great underlying fruit, but clearly corked. (3138 views) | | | Tasted by andtheodor on 5/27/2015 & rated 94 points: Wow wow wow. Spearmint, strawberry, black tea, and beef aromatics. Deep color, young, stout, bay laurel like a Martha's, sweet elderberry fruit. Incredible, one of the finest Ridge wines I've had the pleasure of tasting. Someone decried this as being "too Ridge, too Draper" for what that's worth. Brilliant winemaking. (2759 views) | | | Tasted by mdvino63 on 6/15/2014 & rated 94 points: A stunning cali cab! I am not exaggerating when I say that this is better than most Monte Bello's I have had, and I think it would have stood up well, and probably bested, the likes of a 73 and 75 Monte Bello, 87 Dunn Howell mtn, 74 and 85 BV Georges de Latour, and 1991 Togni that I had at a recent tasting. The only nit is that it is almost (but not quite!) a little too rich and sweet. But, OH, the cab fruit in this! Medium ruby with definite bricking at the edges. The nose screams cab from the get go and is holding up well in the glass. Spicy cassis, wild red and blue fruits, black cherry, the intensely sweet fruit manages to stay just this side of jammy, and there are well-resolved tannins and acidity to balance the fruit. Medium to long finish with an echo of the bouquet that resonates intensely in the mouth after the wine goes down. This would be so easy to polish off by oneself over the course of an evening without any difficulty - on its own, with steak, with cheese, back on its own. Pure deliciousness! A stunning deal at auction. I am glad I have 2 more bottles, and will look for more! (wait, perhaps I shouldn't post this until I find more ;) ! )
Day 2: After 1/2 btl corked and kept in fridge over night...holding up very well. Still delicious. (2658 views) |
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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.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonYork 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 North CoastThe North Coast American Viticultural Area (AVA) in California, covering more than three million acres, includes Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties, and portions of Marin and Solano counties. (see The Wine Institute for more information) |
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