Ridge Vineyards Dry Creek Valley Lytton Springs Red Blend 2023 TBO with Bordeaux and Rhone varieties

with Bordeaux and Rhone varieties filling in around it

If you've been told that South African sparkling is a value alternative to Champagne

in Alto Piemonte

and a strong mineral backbone

Ridge Vineyards Dry Creek Valley Lytton Springs Red Blend 2023 TBO with Bordeaux and Rhone varietiesRidge is about as close as America comes to wine royalty, and while Monte Bello gets the headlines, Lytton Springs is the bottle that makes the case week in and week out. It is a genuine field blend from old Dry Creek Valley vines Zinfandel out front, with Petite Sirah, Carignane and Alicante Bouschet planted right alongside and picked together, the way it was done a century ago. That co planting is exactly what keeps it from turning into a big, jammy