Ridge Vineyards
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| Location | Cupertino, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°18′18″N 122°07′46″W / 37.3050°N 122.1294°WCoordinates: 37°18′18″N 122°07′46″W / 37.3050°N 122.1294°W |
| Appellation | Santa Cruz Mountains, California |
| First vintage | 1962 |
| Key people |
Paul Draper (Chairman of the Board) |
| Known for | Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Varietals | Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Petite Sirah, Syrah, Zinfandel, Merlot, Grenache, Syrah, Carignane |
| Distribution | International |
| Tasting | Open to public on weekends |
| Website | www |
Paul Draper (Chairman of the Board)
Mark Vernon (CEO)
David Amadia (President)
Eric Baugher (COO & Winemaker at Monte Bello)
John Olney (COO & Winemaker at Lytton Springs)
Michael Torino (VP of Wholesale Sales)
Ryan Moore (VP of Consumer Sales)
Ridge Vineyards is a California winery specializing in premium Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Chardonnay wines. Ridge produces wine at two winery locations in northern California. The original winery facilities are located at an elevation of 2,300 feet (700 m) on Monte Bello Ridge in unincorporated Santa Clara County in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA, south of Los Altos, California and west of Cupertino, California. The other Ridge winery facilities are at Lytton Springs in the Dry Creek Valley AVA of Sonoma County. Ridge Vineyard's 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon achieved international fame for its fifth-place finish in the 1976 "Judgement of Paris" wine tasting.
Although Ridge Vineyards was founded in the early 1960s, wine production at the winery's Monte Bello location has a much longer history. Grapevines were first planted on Monte Bello Ridge by Osea Perrone, a doctor and prominent member of the northern California Italian immigrant community, in 1885. The first Monte Bello wine was produced in 1892. Following Prohibition, the vineyard at Monte Bello passed through the hands of several amateur winemakers until it was purchased in 1959 by David Bennion, Charles Rosen, Hewitt Crane, and Howard Zeidler, all engineers at nearby Stanford Research Institute. Ridge Vineyards was bonded and produced its first commercial wine, a Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon, in 1962.
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