Websites can be a blessing, websites can be a curse. For a producer such as Ridge –with a long history, deep library, and philosophy-first aesthetic– a website is both a challenge and an opportunity. How best to chronicle a cornucopia… Read More ›
Pre-Industrial Winemaking
#RidgeSomms: Where The Ridge meets The Hill
Within the borders of Wine’s Metaphysical Country is a complexity of filigree and trellis; a latticework of weft and skein and weave; a many-tendril’d meshwork made of crossroad laid on crossroad, linked to crossroad. Art meets science here as the… Read More ›
Pro Tools: Ingredient Labeling, Pre-Industrial Winemaking, & The Seventeen Syllables of Wine.
Ridge Vineyards is adding ingredients to its back labels. ~ ~ “Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” –… Read More ›
Pre-Industrial … Music.
We’ve spoken quite a bit of late about pre-industrial winemaking; both as methodology, and concept. It’s the latter I’m thinking on at the moment, as I mourn the passing of the very great Doc Watson. Pre-industrial as methodology might be described… Read More ›
