We are very excited to announce our newest video series. Last year, we engaged Six Finger Films to assist us in the creation of a variety of video features that cover several topics important to us here at Ridge. Following… Read More ›
Pre-Industrial Winemaking
Ridge Trims Water Use With Technology
We are excited to share a recent article featuring our Senior Vice President of Vineyard Operations, Mr. David Gates. Written by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance, David, who has been with Ridge for over 26 years, answers a series of… Read More ›
Q & A with Winemaker Eric Baugher
Our C.O.O. and Monte Bello Winemaker, Eric Baugher, recently answered a few questions for Aitor Trabado and his blog, Mi Amigo El Vino. Aitor also featured a piece on us in September that we highly recommend you check out here. … Read More ›
Anatomy Of A Website
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 ›
#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 ›
