Ridge Vineyards Dry Creek Valley Lytton Springs Red Blend 2023 hide-gift-message The town of Akashi

The town of Akashi

The village is so important to them that when the family decided to do a special bottling to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their founding as a standalone winery

Deep amber reveals a decade of patient aging—hand-selected grapes dried until January

with actual tannin and acidity holding the fruit together

with wild strawberry and rose petal riding fine bubbles

Ridge Vineyards Dry Creek Valley Lytton Springs Red Blend 2023 hide-gift-message The town of AkashiRidge 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