2009 Ridge Vineyards Lytton Estate Syrah It is with great pleasure that I announce the arrival of the new vintage of our Lytton Estate Syrah! This is a much-anticipated wine every year, and early tastings of the ’09 have made… Read More ›
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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 ›
Things I’m Thankful For …
I am an admittedly idiosyncratic traditionalist, in that I am rarely much for traditional traditions, but am conversely rather boffo for my own rather less-than-traditional iterations thereof; which makes it all the more of a personal revolution in the offing… Read More ›
#Harvest2012: Pressing Viognier …
As the intensities of Harvest begin to fade into the now-falling rains, time affords a new exhilaration of contemplation; time to think, to ponder, to reflect … Time to sort through a furor of chronicle for the esoterica that slipped through un-memorialized… Read More ›
#Harvest2012: Final Crush
Grapedate 10.20.12. Final Crush. Monte Bello Winery. — With today’s arrival of viognier, zinfandel, and petite sirah, we officially come to Final Crush at the Monte Bello Winery. Uva no mas.
The United States of Syrah: Red, White, and You
If you’ve ever had a bottle of Ridge Vineyards Syrah, you’ve probably checked out the label. And when you checked out the label, you probably saw this … And when you saw this, you probably did a bit of a… Read More ›
New Day, New Wine!
It’s the 5th day of Ridge Vineyards holiDAYS, and how fitting that on a day oft sung of in long, drawn out vowels, espousing that which is golden (on the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, five… Read More ›
