Last week I had the enormous treat of tasting dozens of top quality wines, many of them very mature, from Ridge in California to celebrate this great producer's half-century. You can read the background in Ridge – a California exception.
Their speciality is single vineyard bottlings based on particularly old vines – mainly Bordeaux blends from around the ancient redwood winery on the eponymous ridge south of San Francisco and plots of Zinfandel and Zinfandel-dominated field blends in locations from Paso Robles to Sonoma. Above are some of the more senior vines, under the blossom that we saw, but by no means...
11 Mar 2010