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Wine · US Zinfandel

Ridge Vineyards, East Bench Zinfandel

Pay online, pick up at the shop, 2690 Broadway. Ready in about 2 hours during pickup hours. Orders placed after 5:30 PM (4:30 PM on Sunday) are ready the next day from 10:30 AM (11:30 AM Sunday).

The tasting card

From the label

Read off the bottle in our own photograph.

Vintage on the label

2024

Blend

100% Zinfandel

Alcohol

14.6%

From the tech sheet

Printed for the 2024 vintage by the producer (ridgewine.com). A figure the sheet repeats word for word from another year is left out.

Total acidity

7.36 g/L

pH

3.69

Tasting note

Bright strawberry, clove, vanilla; mouth-coating tannins; medium plus acidity; raspberry, sage, chocolate, black olive; long finish

From the producer's tech sheet for the 2024 vintage, in the sheet's own words, shortened.

Winemaking

From the producer's tech sheet for the 2024 vintage. Only what the sheet prints.

Aged for

Fourteen months in barrel

Aged in

100% air-dried American oak barrels (19% new, 9% one year old, 8% two years old, 66% five-plus years old)

Made

destemmed and crushed; natural primary and natural secondary (malolactic) fermentations; indigenous yeast; pad filtered at bottling

About this bottle

Full notes are coming soon. We only publish what we can confirm from the producer or the bottle itself, so this page grows as we check it. Ask us in the shop, or ask Chaz, our AI sommelier, at the bottom of the page.