"Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com 94+ Points
The 2021 Geyserville hits the palate with a burst of dark red/purplish fruit, sweet spice, lavendar, chocolate, dried herbs and American oak. I would be in no rush to open the 2021, as it is clearly an infant at this stage. The blend is 76% Zinfandel, 16% Carignane, 6% Petite Sirah and 2% Alicante Bouschet. The 2021 is a powerhouse, that much is pretty clear. April 2023
Stunning Zinfandel blend from Napa. Intense black cherry fruit aroma, exotic oak spice, cola, mint, and complex gravel earth. Intense bramble fruit entry, sensuous textural tannins, lively acid, and showing great minerality in a long finish."
Ridge has made the Geyserville as a single-site zinfandel in every year since 1966. The grapes are grown in three adjoining vineyards on a defined stretch of gravelly soil approximately one-and-a-quarter miles long and a half-mile wide.
Geyserville Vineyard is located on the Western edge of Alexander Valley, Sonoma County. Soils: Gravelly loam, Age of Vines: Youngest 10 years; oldest over 120 years; sixty percent 45 years or older.
Sustainably farmed, hand harvested estate-grown grapes; destemmed and crushed; fermented on the native yeasts, followed by full malolactic on the naturally-occurring bacteria; oak from barrel aging; minimum effective sulfur for this wine (25 ppm at crush; 129 ppm over the course of aging); pad filtered at bottling.
