March 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.
March 18, 2011 - Faint fruit. some pepper. I imagine this would have been a really good bottle 5 years ago.
August 30, 2009 - 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.
May 20, 2009 - Full body and smooth
July 26, 2008 - I recommend drinking now. Enjoyable wine-- nothing overly complicated here, just a solid bottle of wine. Just a touch over the hill.
January 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
January 18, 2005 - nothing fancy, nothing memorable, nothing bad.
January 13, 2002 - 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.