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This Iconic California Winery Changed the Industry Forever — Here are 6 Bottles to Try

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California's Ridge Vineyards was founded over sixty years ago and has been one of the most influential wineries in the state's history. From Zinfandel to Grenache Blanc, here are six bottles that tell the story.

Ray Isle is the executive wine editor at Food & Wine, and the wine and spirits editor for Travel + Leisure.Up behind the town of Cupertino, California, there’s a long, steep, winding road. If you follow it, you will eventually come to a graceful redwood building. From there, you can see, far down below, distant and silent, the tech fervor of Silicon Valley. This is Ridge Vineyards.

Things were different then. “There wasn’t remotely as much interest in wine in the U.S. at that time,” Draper recalls. “And California wine from the 1940s, ’50s, and then ’60s, none of them were as complex or would age as well as the best.

 

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