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Manage Subscriptions2012 Ridge Zinfandel East Bench
Zinfandel
- USA
- California
- Sonoma County
- Dry Creek Valley
Community Tasting Notes 128
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timewithwine Likes this wine:
December 22, 2022 - The color is shading between a deep burgundy and purple; beautiful in the glass. An abundant nose and palate of cinnamon, cranberries, Zin funk, red fruits including plum and currants, with some brown sugar coming through as well. The tannins are nicely resolved. The wine is well balanced but perhaps trending on the acidic side just a touch. All in all and not surprisingly, a very pleasurable wine. Surprisingly very little sediment. 14.9% alc. With roasted pork tenderloin with cranberries. 12.22.22. Recommended.
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Martin Redmond Likes this wine: 90 points
July 31, 2022 - Ruby color with a raspberry, black cherry, plum and spice character with lively acidity and suave tannins.
Ridge has made this single-site Zinfandel since 2006. 100% Zinfandel from Dry Creek Valley 14.9% abv -
fozzibaer Likes this wine: 91 points
November 30, 2021 - Not the most elegant wine but a lot of fun to drink.
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forceberry wrote: 90 points
November 27, 2021 - 100% Zinfandel from the East Bench vineyard in Dry Creek Valley. Fermented spontaneously. Aged for 12-13 months in American oak (20% new, 40% second or third use, 40% fourth or fifth use). 14,9% alcohol.
Luminous and slightly translucent blood-red color. Expressive and slightly sweetish nose with aromas of ripe boysenberries and brambly blackberries, some vanilla oak, a little bit of clove, light blueberry tones, a Rhône-ish hint of garrigue and a touch of exotic spices. The wine feels rich, sweet-toned and full-bodied on the palate with juicy and quite impactful flavors of boysenberry jam, some soft dark plum tones, a little bit of peppery spice, light sweetly-spiced notes of cloves, a hint of toasty oak and a touch of cocktail cherry. The medium-to-moderately high acidity lends good sense of balance to the wine while the ample yet ripe and quite friendly tannins lend some nice firmness to the palate. The finish is rich and sweet-toned with gently gripping tannins and a long aftertaste of boysenberry jam, some cherry marmalade, light vanilla tones, a little bit of blueberry, a hint of clove and a touch of dark, plummy fruit. The rather high alcohol lends a little bit of warmth to the aftertaste.
A nice, balanced and quite impactful Zinfandel with lots of ripe fruit, some oak influence and nice sense of structure. Although the wine is quite ripe and sweet-toned for a Ridge wine, the wine nevertheless shows good sense of balance and harmony for a Zinfandel. I was quite surprised how relatively little this wine had evolved since my last taste +7 years ago - it was still quite youthful with no obvious signs of maturity. I'd say the wine had picked up a tad of finesse and dropped a little bit of its sweetest primary fruit without losing one smidgen of its power and intensity. At the age of 9 years this still shows good potential for future development. Good stuff, priced according to its quality at 32,90€. -
Chapel Likes this wine: 91 points
April 28, 2020 - Light bodied. I first thought it was a Merlot. Mild acidic, moderate finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2012
- Type Red
- Producer Ridge
- Varietal Zinfandel
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard East Bench
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Sonoma County
- Appellation Dry Creek Valley
- UPC Code 744442889006
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 456 (27%)
- Consumed 1,259 (73%)
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- ProducerRidge
- VarietyZinfandel
- VineyardEast Bench
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionSonoma County
- AppellationDry Creek Valley
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