2019 Ridge Merlot Estate

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 92 points

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  5/11/2024 - SMHalps Likes this wine:

  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.
  
  This was actually the 2020 vintage, I had ordered the 2019, entered into Cellartracker that way, and they sent me the 2020! So I'm going to skip a numerical rating, but this was a big hit with my group! A great nose and long finish.

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  10/9/2023 - MRichman wrote:

  Beautiful, feminine, stylish, silky fruit. A bit of dark coffee, lots of tight fine oaky tannins. Chalky, teath coating. Black pepper. Lush but grippy fruit. Young, give this a few years in bottle.

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  8/4/2023 - ras2006 Likes this wine:

  a little heavy on tannins

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  7/8/2023 - yaanik Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Stunning wine. Intense, concentrated crushed black plum, cassis, mint. Unapologetically New World character, but sooooo good -- needs at least another 3-5 years, and easily has a decade ahead. (Not blind)

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  6/28/2023 - JLCFan wrote: 91 Points

  Mocha and wet pebble nose.
  
  Sweet, liquorish-red fruit with a vein of minerality running through it. Vanilla oak. Grippy tannins and racy acidity. Finishes very dry and serious with notes of mineral and red fruit. Time will settle the tannins, or have with food if drinking now.

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