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Ridge Lytton Springs turns 50
A remarkable old-vine, fine wine that combines ageability, collectibility, availability and affordability – and continues to make California history. Ridge Vineyards needs little introduction for most wine lovers. Its famous...
Alder Yarrow
Friday 30 August 2024
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28 March 2019 We go way, way back – 18 years to be precise – for today's Throwback Thursday, chosen...
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Elaine goes to the mountain. Click on the Ridge tag to see our extensive previous coverage of this hugely important...
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See also Ridge – a California exception , an account of celebrations of the winery’s half-century published in 2010.
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This is a longer version of an article published by the Financial Times. See also my detailed tasting notes. Imagine...
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Eric Baugher, Ridge Vineyards’ winemaker, was his usual affable if intense self but looked exhausted. He had spent the day...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
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Last week I had the enormous treat of tasting dozens of top quality wines, many of them very mature, from...
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Low tech, high tech, is how Paul Draper (pictured here) described their approach at Ridge in the Santa Cruz mountains...
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Eric Baugher, winemaker at the estimable Ridge Vineyards south of San Francisco, happened to mentioned to his boss Paul Draper...
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