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Christopher Prepares The Holiday Feast: Part V, section II: The Soak!
Post Summary: 4488: A Ridge Blog celebrates the launch of the Ridge Vineyards 2013 Holiday Offerings by highlighting each of the six signature Wine & Food pairings featured in the 2013 Ridge...
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Out With The Champys, and In With The Zin! A New Year’s Manifesto …
Out with the Champys???? Surely you jest, oh lover of Champys, I query myself. Yes, it’s true. I have waxed ad naus in re Champys, and my selfsame affection for, and this is WHY … I say out with it.......
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Gargling With Monte Bello ~or~ Christopher Prepares The Holiday Feast: Part...
And in the wine-dark night of your trembling soul you must ask yourself: Have you gargled Monte Bello over steaming loin of venison? ~ Post Summary: 4488: A Ridge Blog celebrates the launch of the...
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Announcing the 2013 Ridge Vineyards Wine of the Year!
And what a year it’s been! So rich with memories, adventures, tales and tastes; can it really be a mere 12 months ago that we were first tasting the 2008 Lytton Estate Syrah? It could be a lifetime...
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The Collected Wisdom of #ZinZen: Volume II
Statement: “I Want Zinfandel.” Response: Remove “I,” (Ego), then remove “Want,” (Desire). Now you are left w/ only Zinfandel. Zinfandel is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the...
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We’re Baaaaack! The Return of the Ridge Vineyards Wine Bloggers Tasting...
It’s a New Year, my friends, which means it’s time for a new Wine Bloggers Tasting Series! That’s right bloggers, this is to serve notice that the 2014 Edition of our Ridge Vineyards Wine Bloggers...
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The Weird & Wacky World of Search Engine Terms – Annual Edition: 2013
Readers of this blog may recall that I have a fondness for reviewing all the pleasantly unusual search engine terms that have -intentionally or otherwise- led visitors to these virtual pages. Over the...
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Cerebral Solar Cortex in the midst of Polar Vortex
***For important update to the below, see below the below!*** Cerebral Solar Cortex. Literally: Sun In The Brain. Colloquially: A Sunny Disposition. The question then, is, how does one create/maintain...
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5 more ways to enjoy Syrah in the Snow …
In our previous post on the matter (UmamiVortex for the PolarVortex, and such …), we outlined 5 possible ways of serving Syrah in the Snow. We then updated, courtesy of a shared link from Commenter...
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Syrah & Viogner: A Ten Percent Co-Ferment, a True-Fine Oh-Nine
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...
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Natural Wine, Natural Blues
I have had my eyes opened, I have been awakened, I have found enlightenment. As if, in days of old, an old Rinzai Master had koan’d me to the point of insensibility, and then suddenly shocked me into...
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Out, Out, Damn Drought!
Spoiler Alert: Ain’t No Rain. But David Gates and Ridge Vineyards are working to manage the challenges, with conservation and sustainability front & center in our collective minds. For more about...
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#VineWatch14: Week 1! It Begins!
There is something uniquely magical about a vineyard in winter, and while Mother Nature has delivered Norther California a decidedly different iteration of the season this year (see: Out, Out, Damn...
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All Zinfandel, All Day, Saturday! San Francisco Zinfandel Experience, Here We...
Quick Fix: The Zinfandel Experience is this Saturday, and Ridge Vineyards will be there! To jump to event details, just click here: ZAP ~ Ridge Vineyards, when it comes to Zinfandel, ZAP, and the...
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Re-Experience The Zinfandel Experience!
Were you there? Wasn’t it amazing? You were! Yes! What a day! A Sunny January in San Francisco, at The Presido, surrounded by 10,000 Zinfandels, and happy people drinking them? Yes! What, you weren’t?...
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The Blog Post I’ve Been Waiting Almost Five Years To Publish!
In the early days of “4488: A Ridge Blog,” the idea never even crossed my mind. Even at Post #1000, it seemed little more than a mirage shimmering in the distance; untouchable, unearthly, unreal. But...
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If Mozart Were A Grape …
It is the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart today. Thus, I cannot help but wonder, if Mozart were a grape, what would he be? Consider the following quote: “The passions, whether violent or not,...
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2001: A Geyserville Odyssey
Courtesy of our own Paul Draper hosting a trio of French winemakers today, we’ve had the occasion to open a lovely lil’ rarity from the vaults, the 2001 Geyserville. Upon release, this was certainly a...
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The Official 2013 Harvest Report!
As we approach the *Monte Bello Collector Component Tasting (first of the three “assemblage” events en route to bottling the new vintage), anticipation is rising, and questions abound as regards the...
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Unity In Variety: The Single-Vineyard Wisdom of Felix Mendelssohn
It is the birthday of the great Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn today; he would have been 205 years old. And so we think of his music; myself, I think of the great Songs Without Words. Which is,...
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