Ridge Lytton Springs 2005

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Winery:

Ridge Vineyards

Varietal:

Bordeaux Blend

Region:

USA > California > Sonoma County > Dry Creek Valley

Type:

Red Wine

Color:

Drink Dates:

Drink Now - 2013

UPC:

4444290100

User Tags:  spices, fruit, nose, stone fruits, bramble fruits, plum, blackberry, body, deep purple, berries 

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What to Expect

The classic Bordeaux blends rely on either Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon for the bulk of the wine with additions of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Malbec helping to add complexity, color, body and structure to the finished wine.

Winemakers Notes

The 2005 Lytton Springs Vineyard, bottled January 2007, is 77% Zinfandel, 17% Petite Sirah and 6% Carignane. It is 14.4% alcohol by volume. This elegant, full-bodied wine, with its firm tannins and intense, complex fruit, is among the finest of recent vintages. Ridge provided the follwoing note: "The 2005 growing season was delayed by sustained spring rains and cool temperatures. Such conditions can interfere with flowering and fruit formation, but to our surprise the vines set a record crop. To assure intensity, we dropped up to half the clusters on the young vines. Still, reminiscent read more...of 1997, every fermentor was soon filled. Unseasonably cool weather slowed the start of natural yeast fermentations; the resulting cold soak maximized the deep color. The thirty-one separate parcels completed a natural malolactic and were racked to air-dried american oak barrels. In assemblage, a third of the wine (some from young vines, some from vines picked overripe) was held out. This elegant, full-bodied wine, with its firm tannins and intense, complex fruit, is among the finest of recent vintages. Enjoyable now, it will develop further over the next ten years."    (hide)

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