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| Drinking window: Drink between 2019 and 2025 (based on 6 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.5 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by rlsimon on 1/20/2022 & rated 89 points: First night just okay. Pleasant on tongue, but notes of partially ripened plum.
Drank much better (90.5 vs 89) on 2nd night.
Looking forward to next bottle in several years from now. (529 views) | | | Tasted by will46and2 on 1/18/2021 & rated 92 points: 2nd Bottle (863 views) | | | Tasted by DrBad on 1/9/2021 & rated 90 points: Polished off a corvine bottle while cooking roast beef dinner. Good stuff, very drinkable nothing not to like. Well balanced cherry cola, herbs, good acidity. (1058 views) | | | Tasted by glamperi on 7/21/2020 & rated 91 points: I first tried a bottle sometime in February, and was disappointed, and then another early June, still not ready, I decided to revisit just today, July 21st, and it is now living up to its price point. I will wait at least a month before trying, but this is the first time I enjoyed a bottle from this batch. (1173 views) | | | Tasted by MRichman on 4/1/2020: On the soft side. A bit of sweet fruit. A fine drink, but nothing special. Has the Ridge flavor profile but lacks the depth of their better wines. Dark, good acidic finish. Drink or hold. (1286 views) | | | Tasted by cbleary on 3/11/2020: Fresh and red-fruited with an appealing mineral streak. Reminiscent of the 2017 East Bench. (943 views) | | | Tasted by WetRock on 3/2/2020: This is just a so-so effort for Ridge. I immediately noticed how little extraction this showed. It's already translucent. So of course not very fleshy feeling for a young Zin. Interesting to read that they co-fermented the Petit Sirah and Carignan even if only 5 and 10% respectively. A lot more tannin that you would expect for so little PS but that is likely explained by all the wood I detected. Not really overt new wood but just straight wood grain. It actually showed more on the following nights. Pretty sure the only way that strong tannin got there with a light body and a wee bit of PS is from the wood. And it's not integrated at this point. A few more years might let that happen but I'm not sure the concentration is here to suck up all that wood. It will certainly last long enough to experiment with. I'm hoping they will dial that back in future vintages. This source seems like it could be somewhat unique in the Zin lineup. (907 views) | | | Tasted by DrBad on 2/28/2020 & rated 90 points: Nice wine, very drinkable, enough going on to keep one's interest through the bottle. PnP. Cherry, pine and clove aromas. Medium opacity and medium body. Cherry cola flavors with a bit of bitter stem sharpness adding character. Medium length finish with a tangy, acidic finish. This wine is subtle up front but has good depth and finish to keep me coming back for more. Don't remember what inspired me to pick up 4 of these, I typically do 2 for a wine I've never had, but these will make good middle of the week drinkers. (896 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.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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyDry Creek Valley Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley | Dry Creek Valley Association | Appellation America | San Francisco Chronicle Article |
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