hankj
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ORIGINAL: wineopsguy Hey Guys - Some really interesting trends here. Surprised how much Ridge and Rhy's shows up! Here is my list: Ridge has two thing going for it that make it hit a lot of top tens. Massive wine club subscription, many more casual wine-lovers who started with Ridge then got more serious but never went away from Ridge. A few of my family members in California have been in Ridge wine clubs since the early 80's for instance, and aren't generally wine geeks or cellar-horders. Their cellars (aka basement corners) consist of a case of random bottles and plenty of Ridge. And Ridge is so damn reliable in producing wines at fair prices that cellar just fine. There next to zero likelihood that an aged bottle of Ridge is going to suck. If I'm in Total Wine or some similar store with $150 burning a hole in my pocket but no real sense of what I want/need, there's a good chance I walk out with 3-6 bottles on Ridge. Because I know that I'll never look at the stack of Ridge in my cellar and think "gawd what was I thinking?" Rather I'll be like - "oh look, I have 4 bottles of 12 year old Geyserville/Santa Cruz Estate/East Bench/etc, lucky me, time for some good drinkin'." So yeah, Ridge, always a good/easy/just-shows-up choice.
< Message edited by hankj -- 6/23/2017 9:10:43 AM >
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