Comments on: Building Monte Bello: The 2011 Assemblage http://blog.ridgewine.com/2012/02/15/building-monte-bello-the-2011-assemblage/ Hosted by Christopher Watkins Sun, 19 May 2013 23:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Notes from the 27th California FuturesTasting « Hogshead – A Wine Blog http://blog.ridgewine.com/2012/02/15/building-monte-bello-the-2011-assemblage/#comment-10020 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:51:20 +0000 http://ridgewine.wordpress.com/?p=5453#comment-10020 [...] were replanted with the rest of the vineyard  following suit.  I recommend that you read Building Monte Bello: The 2011 Assemblage at the [...]

]]> By: A look into the future… Or… Breaking it Down « Stay Rad http://blog.ridgewine.com/2012/02/15/building-monte-bello-the-2011-assemblage/#comment-9889 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:08:54 +0000 http://ridgewine.wordpress.com/?p=5453#comment-9889 [...] Watkins (Tasting Room Manager and Assemblage Participant at Monte Bello) had to say about it in his blog.  It’s hella interesting… That, and he’s a much better writer than I [...]

]]> By: John Gallagher http://blog.ridgewine.com/2012/02/15/building-monte-bello-the-2011-assemblage/#comment-9886 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:39:38 +0000 http://ridgewine.wordpress.com/?p=5453#comment-9886 Reblogged this on Postdenominational and commented:
There is something sacred in the way Ridge Vineyards makes wine. They seem to be powerfully connected to creation, to the particular dirt where their grapes grow. I first read about Paul Draper, the head winemaker at Ridge, in an article in a magazine called New West. It was back in the 80s, and I was sitting in a dentist’s waiting room. Another article in the magazine was about an up and coming computer company called Apple.

]]> By: Terroirist » Daily Wine News: Harvest Intern http://blog.ridgewine.com/2012/02/15/building-monte-bello-the-2011-assemblage/#comment-9726 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:01:53 +0000 http://ridgewine.wordpress.com/?p=5453#comment-9726 [...] details the assemblage of its 2011 Monte [...]

]]> By: Robert Seaney http://blog.ridgewine.com/2012/02/15/building-monte-bello-the-2011-assemblage/#comment-9715 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:59:39 +0000 http://ridgewine.wordpress.com/?p=5453#comment-9715 2044? Hmmm, I’ll be a ripe, young 82 years of age. Dionysus allowing, I’ll save a bottle to open in 2044.

Christopher, thanks once again for your words. Not only a detailed depiction of how a truly iconic wine is assembled – something that could all to easily be merely process, clinical, rigid. But also for illuminating the poetry, emotion and reverence with which the participants approach the process. These are the beautiful things that should be embraced when we open a bottle. And they will be – I’m printing this now to save with the wine when it arrives in 2014.

Cheers!

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