Wine Review: Ridge Vineyards Lytton Springs 2021

Wine-Searcher’s Wine Director, David Allen MW, Master of Wine, continues his tasting of a few wines from one of his undeniable favorite wineries Ridge Vineyards from California. The review looks at a wine from the Dry Creek Valley, the 2021 vintage of their legendary Lytton Springs, a predominantly Zinfandel blend.

Ridge Vineyards is a famed Californian wine producer founded in 1962, and based in the Santa Cruz Mountains, but with vineyards in several parts of the state. Its flagship wine, Monte Bello, is a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated Bordeaux blend known for delivering the complexity and elegance of Bordeaux wines, as well as typical California fruit intensity.

It is also well known for its range of Zinfandel wines and Zinfandel-based blends, led by the Lytton Springs and Geyserville cuvées. Wines made from Zinfandel with the addition of varieties such as Petite Sirah, Carignan, Grenache, Mataro Counoise and Cinsault have also been longstanding features in the range, and Ridge has made a small amount of Chardonnay each vintage for many decades.

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