2023 Ridge Vineyards Zinfandel Geyserville Alexander Valley 750 ml


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Vinous

A blend of 70% Zinfandel, 18% Carignane, 9% Petite Sirah and 3% Alicante Bouschet, the 2023 Geyserville is dark and brooding. Virile and intense, this is a monster wine that’s only at the very beginning of its evolution. So impressively articulated, the 2023 somberly marches from the glass with dark shadings of tobacco, inky black fruit, cracked pepper, sage, turned earth and pine, building powerful minerality with aeration. The 2023 will need several years to come around. It’s a sleeping giant today.

95 pts

Jeb Dunnuck

A perennial standout for the winery that is produced for wider distribution, the 2023 Zinfandel Geyserville is a blend of 70% Zinfandel, 18% Carignane, 9% Petite Sirah and 3% Alicante, the 2023 a highly ageable vintage with great acidity. That freshness helps to define the wine’s juicy core of well-mannered, supple tannins and oak, the wine aged entirely in 100% air-dried American oak, 15% of it new. It truly offers the perfect balance of dark fruit and freshness, within a full-bodied richness and structure still built for aging, as with all Ridge wines. Enjoy now through 2033.

95 pts

Decanter

Just a mile from the winery in Lytton Springs, the Geyserville vineyard sits in an overall warmer pocket of Sonoma, but even here, 2023 was unusually cool and slow to start. The winemaking team states that this was the latest Geyserville harvest on record, since the first vintage in 1966. The crew was picking grapes up to November 1st. This classic old-vine field blend is always anchored by Zinfandel, with Carignane, Petite Sirah, and a few other varieties playing supporting roles in varying proportions, depending on the vintage. In 2023, with 70% of Zinfandel, the blend feels expressive and aromatic, with black and blue fruit leading the way, lifted by fresh herbs, a touch of mint, and a layer of baking spices. The oak is still settling in, but the structure is already in place, thanks in part to the 18% Carignane, which adds depth and acidity. It’s a young wine with plenty of promise, already showing well, with slightly chalky tannins, but it will really hit its stride with a few years in bottle.

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The Essence of California, Bottled

Ridge’s Geyserville Zinfandel blend is a marquee bottle from a winery of unmatched pedigree. Ridge has been named North America’s #1 Most Admired wine brand by Drinks International. It has been a Wine & Spirits Magazine Top 100 winery 20 times. It placed fifth at the 1976 Judgment of Paris—and took the crown when the wines were re-tasted 30 years later.

The blend of 70% Zinfandel, 18% Carignan, 9% Petite Sirah, and 3% Alicante Bouschet shows a nearly opaque ruby color, with profuse black- and blue-fruit aromas accented by baking spice, fresh herbs, and a whisper of mint. Energetic and full-bodied on the palate, it’s polished from beginning to end, finishing with fine, bright-edged tannins that will allow it to cellar for well over a decade.

Ridge was founded in 1959, when four scientists from the Stanford Research Institute made a quarter-barrel of Cabernet at the top of Montebello road in the mountains south of San Francisco. In 1969, the group hired Stanford graduate (in philosophy) Paul Draper as winemaker. The Cabernet he made two years later is the one that placed fifth at the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting, making Ridge a worldwide icon.

Incredibly, the Geyserville wine pre-dates Draper—Ridge started making it in 1966 from a plot of vines three miles south of the town of Geyserville. When they started, the vineyard was still farmed by Sonoma County legend Leo Trentadue, who will forever be linked to Ridge, as the four founders purchased the famed Monte Bello property from the Trentadue family. Ridge has farmed the Geyserville plot themselves since 1990 and finally purchased it in 2016.

2023 Ridge Vineyards Zinfandel Geyserville Alexander Valley 750 ml

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