Ridge East Bench Zinfandel 2020

HED37550 75cl 14.5%
Ridge East Bench Zinfandel 2020 is a single-vineyard Zinfandel from the Sonoma County region of California. Located on the eastern edge of the Dry Creek Valley north of Healdsburg, the East Bench vineyard has been planted to vines since the 1900s. Ridge believes this site on ancient iron-rich clay-loam to be the perfect terroir for Zinfandel. The estate`s East Bench Zin was propagated from cuttings from four pre-Prohibition era vineyards and produces a wine of unrivalled depth and complexity. "Vividly briary - as though one fell into a patch of raspberry bushes - it’s also very structured and full of cassis flavours, leading one to momentarily wonder if there isn’t some Cabernet in there. Long and layered, it reveals itself slowly." Decanter, 2022
2020
Red
California, United States
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Named after the historic vineyard area of Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains has been a byword for fine Californian wine since the early 1960s. Ridge shot to fame in the fabled 1976 Judgement of Paris. It was at this groundbreaking blind tasting that the 1971 Ridge Monte Bello was pitted against some of the most revered First Growths of Bordeaux. It placed fifth. (NB: in a re-enactment of the same tasting held in 2006, Monte Bello 1971 placed first.)

Under legendary winemaker Paul Draper, Ridge Vineyards became renowned for the exceptional quality of its single-vineyard wines. Though Draper has now retired, the estate continues to produce terroir-focused wines with the same commitment to organic farming and traditional winemaking techniques. From the fine Bordeaux blends and Chardonnays of Monte Bello to the Zinfandels of Lytton Springs and Geyserville in Sonoma, and all points in between, Ridge Vineyards remains one of the most celebrated names in California wine.

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Rated 96 points by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
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15.9% ABV
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