One of the greatest California wines, based on cabernet sauvignon, is not from the vaunted Napa Valley. It hails from a special site at Ridge Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Cupertino. The ...

Napa Valley has become synonymous with great California cabernet sauvignon. But I’d argue that the state’s greatest and most distinctive cab is not from Napa, but from a special ridge high in the ...

During one of the recent 50th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tastings, one of the original California Cabernet ...

In my most recent Ridge Vineyards article (click here to read the article on Spring releases and links to all other Ridge Vineyards articles) I said that I would soon be writing about some recent ...

High on a mountain top overlooking Silicon Valley lies a legendary vineyard – Ridge Monte Bello. Its history and its legacy have been established by two wine visionaries: Osea Perrone, an Italian ...

Ridge Monte Bello is considered “the most internationally admired producer of American Cabernet Sauvignon” by the Oxford Companion to Wine. Since 1962, Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello has been garnering ...

Ridge Monte Bello Historic Vines Santa Cruz Mountains 2013 ($210): Sourced from the oldest parcels in the original Torre section of the Monte Bello Vineyard, Ridge’s 2013 Historic Vines amplifies the ...

It is “the most hallowed ground in California,” according to Ian Brand of I. Brand & Family Wines. Its terroir “is some of the most outstanding” in the state, in the words of Duncan Arnot Meyers of ...

One of the greatest California wines, based on cabernet sauvignon, is not from the vaunted Napa Valley. It hails from a special site at Ridge Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Cupertino. The ...

The long, scenic drive up to Ridge Vineyards is enjoyable in and of itself, but the Ridge Vineyards tasting room is the cherry on top. The tasting room staff is relaxed and knowledgeable; the view is ...