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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.4 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by dlynch on 3/22/2011: Lots of structure, but probably past its prime. Mostly tannin for the first hour after opening. Some fruit appeared. Left the last glass in the bottle for a few days and it was surprisingly good - more fruit had appeared and the rough / astringent tannin was not in evidence. Maybe it was at its best the day after opening. (3768 views) | | | Tasted by pilot360 on 3/18/2011: Faint fruit. some pepper. I imagine this would have been a really good bottle 5 years ago. (3605 views) | | | Tasted by jfkwines on 8/30/2009 & rated 88 points: Part of "The great wine past it's prime experience". These Ridges were the instigation of this process. We didn't have these wines for 5+ years as we missed picking them up in SF. And they went past the optimal drinking window, this made us notice how many wines we have on CT past thier time. Yikes!!!!
Anyway, this wine drinks in the upper half of 10 2000 Ridges I have and have gone through. It has alot of bluberries, little oak but notenough in characteritics for us. That being said, there is still a good bit of Fruit on these and they are by now means syrupy or candied. Drink this fall/winter. (3779 views) | | | Tasted by TPjr on 5/20/2009: Full body and smooth (3953 views) | | | Tasted by wcgarrett on 7/26/2008 & rated 88 points: I recommend drinking now. Enjoyable wine-- nothing overly complicated here, just a solid bottle of wine. Just a touch over the hill. (3918 views) | | | Tasted by JBVino on 1/11/2007: opened and poured..ok zin, but with no real structure or acidity seemed flabby. Funny not a hot, overipe style and not the more traditional style of spice, pepper, berry. maybe just in a funny spot/or over the hill as fruit is gone but no fun structure left...I usually like old zins that almost resemble cabs (1699 views) | | | Tasted by twoamps on 1/18/2005 & rated 89 points: nothing fancy, nothing memorable, nothing bad. (315 views) | | | Tasted by twoamps on 1/13/2002 & rated 88 points: muddled, fuzzy-tounged tannins and pepper, incredibly dry. tastes higher-alcohol than it is. Probably needs a lot of time, although there may not be enough fruit to hold it together until the tannins mellow. (315 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.Zinfandel ZAP: Zinfandel Advocates & Producers | Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wikipedia-ZinfandelUSAAmerican 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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