I thought this was quite excellent. Fresh, red fruited, strongly speaks of Evangelho, good acid, only medium bodied, low alcohol for its ripeness. The American oak works well here and it's sort of similar to a high quality young traditional Rioja. Fair QPR, too. One of the better Ridge ATPs I've had in the last several years - I will be buying more!
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Big cranberry notes almost immediately. Vanilla, raspberry, plum compote, dark chocolate, pepper, and baking spice. High acidity, medium tannin, medium body. The nose follows the taste with an emphasis on cranberry. It’s a vibrant and velvety wine with firm but mailable tannins in the finish that is very pleasant. Only 17 barrels were made.
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Light purple color; slightly translucent. On the nose, cherries and earth. The palate has sweet red fruit, cranberry, tasty and powerful acidity, great structure, and is lighter bodied. Really great stuff.
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6/19/2023 - maxos Likes this wine: 91 Points
Excellent! Smooth very acidic with a terrific long finish on the palate. Soy sauce, mushrooms, strawberry jam, sweet cherry. What an elegant blend.
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4/17/2023 - blank blank wrote: 91 Points
I thought this was quite excellent. Fresh, red fruited, strongly speaks of Evangelho, good acid, only medium bodied, low alcohol for its ripeness. The American oak works well here and it's sort of similar to a high quality young traditional Rioja. Fair QPR, too. One of the better Ridge ATPs I've had in the last several years - I will be buying more!
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3/22/2023 - weirdwine Likes this wine: 90 Points
nose: red fruits, and red jam, almost like bon maman four fruits, cranberry sauce
taste: rustic, but actually pretty good, i feel like can taste the natural yeast, very interesting
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1/25/2023 - linkin22luke Likes this wine: 93 Points
Big cranberry notes almost immediately. Vanilla, raspberry, plum compote, dark chocolate, pepper, and baking spice. High acidity, medium tannin, medium body. The nose follows the taste with an emphasis on cranberry. It’s a vibrant and velvety wine with firm but mailable tannins in the finish that is very pleasant. Only 17 barrels were made.
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11/28/2022 - marcstevens45 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Light purple color; slightly translucent. On the nose, cherries and earth. The palate has sweet red fruit, cranberry, tasty and powerful acidity, great structure, and is lighter bodied. Really great stuff.
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