Spectacular! Great nose, long finish. A treat to drink while I wait on the 2018 Monte Bellos.
Part of a Ridge night with my wine group at a NYC Steakhouse. We had in order, 2021 Ridge Grenache Blanc Adelaida Vineyard, 2020 Ridge Pinot Noir Corralitos Gali Vineyard, 2020 Ridge Merlot Estate, 2018 Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Estate, 2019 Ridge Zinfandel Boatman Graveyard, and a 375ml bottle of the 2009 Lytton Estate Viogner. We drank the wines in accending order of alcohol.
90 mins in the decanter yielded a pleasing, though young, wine. This has the stuffing to get through the end of the decade in great shape. We followed this fine for 4 hours and it was consistently better than the last sip. Fresh blackberry, cassis, oak, pencil savings, and firm long tannin. Next bottle in 2030.
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Decanted off sediment and carafed for about half an hour afterward. Dark clear ruby. Smelled black cherry, a tiny bit of CS cassis, leather, vanilla, tobacco, pencil shavings; the taste was intense on the fruit but with the other elements showing in the background. Semi-resolved tannin and good acidity balance the fruit, not rounded but not young medium bodied mouthfeel; on the whole it feels pretty seamless. Medium-plus finish on the fruit that eventually gets down to pencil shavings.
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5/10/2024 - SMHalps Likes this wine: 94 Points
Spectacular! Great nose, long finish. A treat to drink while I wait on the 2018 Monte Bellos.
Part of a Ridge night with my wine group at a NYC Steakhouse. We had in order, 2021 Ridge Grenache Blanc Adelaida Vineyard, 2020 Ridge Pinot Noir Corralitos Gali Vineyard, 2020 Ridge Merlot Estate, 2018 Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Estate, 2019 Ridge Zinfandel Boatman Graveyard, and a 375ml bottle of the 2009 Lytton Estate Viogner. We drank the wines in accending order of alcohol.
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3/24/2024 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 86 Points
This is fine, decent C/S. It could possibly improve with some more cellar time.
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3/23/2024 - HFLED Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very well balanced classic-ish California cab.
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2/17/2024 - Dobrie10 Likes this wine:
90 mins in the decanter yielded a pleasing, though young, wine. This has the stuffing to get through the end of the decade in great shape. We followed this fine for 4 hours and it was consistently better than the last sip. Fresh blackberry, cassis, oak, pencil savings, and firm long tannin. Next bottle in 2030.
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2/14/2024 - lazy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Decanted off sediment and carafed for about half an hour afterward. Dark clear ruby. Smelled black cherry, a tiny bit of CS cassis, leather, vanilla, tobacco, pencil shavings; the taste was intense on the fruit but with the other elements showing in the background. Semi-resolved tannin and good acidity balance the fruit, not rounded but not young medium bodied mouthfeel; on the whole it feels pretty seamless. Medium-plus finish on the fruit that eventually gets down to pencil shavings.
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