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Red
1996 Ridge Alicante Bouschet Pagani Ranch
Alicante Bouschet
- USA
- California
- Sonoma County
- Sonoma Valley
Label borrowed from 1995
Label borrowed from 1995
Label borrowed from 1993
Label borrowed from 2012
Community Tasting Notes 2
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sgilbrech wrote: 90 points
July 20, 2011 - The drinking recommendation on this wine in Cellar Tracker was by 2003, so we opened and decanted this 1996 vintage carefully, not knowing what we would get. This wine is drinking beautifully now. We drank it with a flat iron steak marinated in a chipotle mixture that was a little spicy, not over the top. It went very well together.
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locovino wrote: 85 points
May 4, 2010 - Really a strange wine... Kinda proves that you should not age Alicante Bouchet from California. At first open very dark color (of course!) but with an overwhelming nose of freshly molded plastic. Really not nice at all but this eventually blew off to reveal some cranberry and pomegranate. I think most of what was keeping this wine at all interesting was the 25% Zin in the blend. Oh well. Note to Paul Draper: Don't bother with an ATP release of this again...
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 1996
- Type Red
- Producer Ridge
- Varietal Alicante Bouschet
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Pagani Ranch
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Sonoma County
- Appellation Sonoma Valley
- UPC Code 744442239962
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 17 (43%)
- Consumed 23 (57%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
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- AppellationSonoma Valley
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