Archive for July 30th, 2010

Summer Wine Series: Themes Announced!

July 30, 2010

Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas for our Summer Wine Series event!

Special thanks to those whose ideas we ran with, and of course apologies to those who ideas we loved (we did indeed love ALL of them) but didn’t actually use …

And that said, here are the 2010 Summer Wine Series Themes!

August 7 ATP Round-Up! Join us in tasting four of our favorite limited-production, winery-only ATP offerings, including some that are close to selling out!

August 14 Chardonnay Showcase! Ridge Vineyards currently has an unprecedented four chardonnay offerings currently available, and this will be your chance to sample them all!

August 21 Zinfandel: The Art of the Blend! Try four zinfandels in a row, each with one more varietal in the construct; solo varietal, two varietals, three varietals, four!

August 28 Site-Specific/Multi-Format! Taste two different bottle formats of Santa Cruz Mountains Estate in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and two of Lytton Springs in Dry Creek Valley, and experience bottle maturation in action!

For specific details about this tasting series, please click here. Thanks again contributors, and we look forward to hosting everyone in August!

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Deciphering Ridge (and other’s!) Labels …

July 30, 2010

Deciphering Ridge -or- Proof Of The Couth Of A Snooth Sleuth!

For those of you out there who have sometimes found yourselves both intrigued and sometimes baffled by the almost laughable wealth of information perennially contained on our back labels; the discerning and inquisitive amongst you who, despite your best efforts, sometimes still find the words distorting before you, often after one too many reads and two too many glasses …

…you should always feel free to either contact us with questions, or visit one of our tasting rooms to quiz the staff.

Should neither of these options be currently available to you (it’s 3am, your insomnia is misbehaving again, and your mind cannot yet comfortably wrap itself around egg fining; or you’re in prison, and you’ve already exhausted your phone privileges, and your cell mate has dodgy iPhone reception; or you’re too shy to publically admit you don’t fully understand how carbonic maceration works; or you’re in your cubicle, alcohol sites are prohibited, but you have to know why we air-dry our barrels, and your blackberry just fell down the toilet; or you’re currently holding a protest in a tree high above the University of Santa Cruz, and the wind does not cry Cabernet, nor does your cellphone carrier), then take heart, there are others out there who are performing the translative endeavour for you!

Run to them, fly to them, write them, text them, land a helicopter on their lawn, but somehow, some way, get to Snooth! It’s Wine 101 time, and Professor Snooth is at the blackboard. Here’s what I’m talkin’ about …

http://www.snooth.com/articles/commentary/wine-101-wine-words-i/

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