Maybe that is my problem on the Lytton Springs. I just don’t see what is all that great about it. But I drank an 09 this year, an 08 last year, and an 06 three years ago. Too young I guess. Geyserville is just a thing of beauty young, and I’ve had a couple older ones that were other worldy.
I really liked those ATP Maple vineyard bottlings. But, of the current line up, G’ville by a mile.
Geyserville—for nearly three decades now my favourite American wine.
Man that 1993 Maple is explosive Zin deliciousness
Never had this. Must try!
Add another to the Geyserville bandwagon. Years ago, when I was looking at winelists in restaurants, I’d always pick this because I didn’t recognize any of the other labels. Now I recognize the other labels, and still pick this. dollar-fo-follar, always one of the best bargains out there.
It’s the shizzle! ![[welldone.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/f/fc9709a841aa9379fd892a9cf0b535b05f473b86.gif "[welldone.gif]"){kind=small}
When my wine partner and I were just starting out on the exploratory wine trail, one of the first bottles over $10 we purchased was a 1974 York Creek Petite Sirah at a great little shop in Poughkeepsie, NY in 1980. Man, what a revelation that bottle was, and the beginning of a life-long love affair with Ridge wines. It’s clear on this thread that many share the affection and admiration for Draper and the resoundingly consistent wines Ridge produces. While our palates have moved more towards Italy, France and Spain in most of our daily drinking, we still buy at least a case of Geyserville and Lytton Springs every vintage, sometimes in several size formats as well, and marvel at the vintage variables, how the blend ratios affect the wines’ personalities and longevity. I guess we cellar more Geyserville for the long(er) haul, but we love both sites. So I guess that gets entered as a tie.
Don’t sleep on Geyserville. It ages very well also. These are my two favorites, but if I had to pick only one, I also would go with Geyserville.
Dang, I’m getting out-numbered! Geezer over Lytton Springs.
Would love to try the Jimsomare. How do I source it?
Jimsomare is an ATP wine and usually sells out to members but is available in a holiday gift pack paired with a Jimsomare Chard: http://www.ridgewine.com/store/index.taf?_function=detail&sku=K11JPR
Do they ever still make a Jimsomare Cabernet. The old ones were certainly yummy.
And although Geyserville is my favourite, and the years I like best are 73, 91 and 85 in that order,
there is a 1970 Jimsomare Zinfandel, which is one of the very best wines I’ve ever had, and I’ve been lucky enough
to have it a couple times—first time twenty years ago, with a couple German winemaker buddies—at which point it was still young and sorting itself out—
then a second time ten years ago, when it seemed perfectly mature and resolved and had gotten where it was going.
do not pass up a chance to try this wine, should a bottle come your way!
Robert, they make very little of it and it sells out quickly. It helps if you’re a member of the winery’s ATP Club.
This year I scored a couple of bottles through Ridge in the Spring and bought some more at at Monte Bello assemblage tasting at the winery.
Time to begin taste testing, there’s a new case in town…
Whoa Mel learn how to hold a camera. Oh, sorry wrong thread.
In all seriousness, nice catch Glean.
Lol, it was my phone cam! A laparoscopic injury has left me with a fairly pronounced left thumb tremor and some intrinic weakness so I can’t take great photos with this phone, not that I’m a photographer with any equipment.
Got to love this batch of Ridge though huh? Cheap too.
I assumed you had been drinking! As for the left thumb tremor, no wonder your best friend is a lawyer! 
Got the injury operating on a nearly 300# guy with no insurance. Horrific 2 hour+ Lap Chole with my left wrist badly flexed for most of that case. Torqued like that I got an peripheral nerve injury that resulted in immediate onset loss of pinch strength in my L hand, and long-term this tremor.
All the better for a “stranger”. Sorry, could not resist.
As to the OP: Lytton follow by Geezer.