An awesome bottle. Have been anxious to try this one for a couple of months. Will benefit from additional time, but it’s a pleasurable monster right now. Nose was subdued but floated a dusty fruit. Mouth was balanced with nice blue-black fruit, some acid and finishing with fairly aggressive tannins. 3 hour decant, and drank mostly by itself. This will be an exceptional wine in a few years.
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I can’t wait to see where this goes. 3+ hour decant and this was starting to open up and continues to over the following couple of hours. An absolute treat, as good as a zin can get methinks.
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Chocolate chocolate chocolate. Olives, mint and bright kealakekua chocolate. Pleasant drying tannin over a medium-ish finish to halt it’s thick plush fruit bomb rush before it takes over. This is where Ridge shows it’s Ridge-ness.
Not great, certainly not bad nor a glorpy jammy boomer glass of diabetes, however still overpriced. Fun fleeting glimpses of CA from the past. Definitely age-ability potential and will be cool to try in 7 years.
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3/30/2024 - Wild Boar Likes this wine: 93 Points
An awesome bottle. Have been anxious to try this one for a couple of months. Will benefit from additional time, but it’s a pleasurable monster right now. Nose was subdued but floated a dusty fruit. Mouth was balanced with nice blue-black fruit, some acid and finishing with fairly aggressive tannins. 3 hour decant, and drank mostly by itself. This will be an exceptional wine in a few years.
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3/8/2024 - domestic_primate Likes this wine: 93 Points
I can’t wait to see where this goes. 3+ hour decant and this was starting to open up and continues to over the following couple of hours. An absolute treat, as good as a zin can get methinks.
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1/27/2024 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 95 Points
ZAP TRADE TASTING JANUARY 27, 2024 (THE PAVILION AT ONE MARKET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA.): Big and rich on the nose, same on the palate, needs 9 years to peak, a great blend as usual, big body, long finish, worth the $50 easily.
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1/25/2024 - vino vidi vici Likes this wine:
Toasty oak, olives, blackberries, etc. Excellent craftsmanship.
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1/16/2024 - Neumann U47 wrote:
Chocolate chocolate chocolate. Olives, mint and bright kealakekua chocolate. Pleasant drying tannin over a medium-ish finish to halt it’s thick plush fruit bomb rush before it takes over. This is where Ridge shows it’s Ridge-ness.
Not great, certainly not bad nor a glorpy jammy boomer glass of diabetes, however still overpriced. Fun fleeting glimpses of CA from the past. Definitely age-ability potential and will be cool to try in 7 years.
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