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  2. Ridge Vineyards - Wikipedia

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    Ridge Vineyards, Monte Bello. 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 ...

  3. Paul Draper (winemaker) - Wikipedia

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    Paul Draper (born March 10, 1936) is a California winemaker who has been the chief winemaker at Ridge Vineyards in California since 1969. Without any formal training in winemaking, Draper first gained recognition for his 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon when it placed fifth at the Judgment of Paris wine tasting. [1]

  4. David R. Bennion - Wikipedia

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    David Ralph Bennion (1929–1988) was a leading California winemaker who was the founder and winemaker at Ridge Vineyards in California from 1959 to 1969. From an early period, Bennion labeled Ridge Vineyards wines by vineyard, district and appellation, a first for California Zinfandel and a practice later followed by nearly every winery in the state.

  5. Your next great bottle of wine might come from this under-the ...

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    The Santa Cruz Mountain range — as far as its wines go — is shrouded in relative obscurity despite its rich history and undeniable potential.

  6. Santa Cruz Mountains AVA - Wikipedia

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    Some of the oldest wineries in California are in this region. Two wineries from the Santa Cruz Mountain locale participated in the 1976 Judgment of Paris wine tasting with David Bruce Winery's 1973 Chardonnay placing 10th in the white category and the Ridge Vineyards' 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon placing 5th in the red wines. [6]

  7. Monte Bello - Wikipedia

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    Monte Bello, Italian for beautiful mountain, can refer to: Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in California, part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District; A wine label of Ridge Vineyards; Monte Bello (Guayaquil), a neighborhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador; Monte Bello, a barangay in Kananga, Leyte, The Philippines

  8. Judgment of Paris (wine) - Wikipedia

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    The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, also known as the Judgment of Paris, was a wine competition, to commemorate the United States Bicentennial, organized in Paris on 24 May 1976 by Steven Spurrier, a British wine merchant, and his American colleague, Patricia Gallagher, in which French oenophiles participated in two blind tasting comparisons: one of top-quality Chardonnays and another of red wines ...

  9. History of California wine - Wikipedia

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    Ridge Vineyards' 1971 Monte Bello received the number one honor. [31] In Oz Clarke's New encyclopedia of Wine, Mr. Clarke writes that California "was the catalyst and ...

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