April 17, 2024 - Delicious
April 13, 2024 - This was... a little boring. Not concentrated enough to be jammy, very soft, not complex, but tasty and disappeared quickly without particularly making its presence felt. Expected better from Ridge really - the 2016 Geyser is so much more compelling.
December 29, 2023 - Not in CT inventory. With mushroom risotto. Very good medium weightzin. Great fruit spine and decent length good zin qualities. Drink now since it is very good
July 24, 2023 - Pretty average for a 2016 Ridge zin.
April 14, 2023 - Good soft-ish fruit. Baking spices plus Ridge bergamot. Drinking great right now and for another 3-5 years. Good, but not up to the Geyserville of the same vintage.
October 28, 2022 - TCA. It cleared up a bit with some air, but corked.
June 14, 2022 - The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, cherry and light toast. It tastes like cherry. The body is light/medium. The wine has narrow texture. The wine finishes short. The wine has low acidity.
February 21, 2022 - As always, a full throttle effort. Lengthy & sturdy.
++++ $37 Ridge ATP program
December 24, 2021 - Brown sugar, stewed cherries. Interesting style. Not my thing. May have been improperly stored.
November 21, 2021 - Tried a half glass upon opening which as expected was closed to the max. 16 hours open later this was still the case, so I decanted for 5 hours. It still took another hour or more in the glass to open up. Beautiful clarity in appearance. Very wild in fruit profile on nose and palette. Mega structure, no rush at all. But I feel it’s a little dilute compared to what I was expecting based on other cellartracker notes and other experience or Ridge. I wonder if this bottle was in a state of emo black nail varnish wearing adolescence. The Ridge website says that it is in its window.
Edit: after about 7 hours it’s come around even further. A little more fruit and concentration. Added a point