On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:55:32 -0500, Ed Rasimus
> wrote:

>It was big, brawny, in-your-face, full fruit New World style wine. No
>nuance, no subtlety, no hesitation going on. No waits for forty years
>to age gracefully, although I'm certain that the wine will be quite
>nice in ten, twenty or even forty years.

Agreed. I opened a 2004 at a friend's wedding dinner last week. My
kind of wine...and everybody else's that night, too!

>..., I dug up a bottle of the last release I've
>gotten from Ridge, the 2007 Paso Robles zinfandel. Following the
>Justin, the wine substantiated my opinion of the shift in Ridge style.
>While still a nice wine, it came off as flaccid, watery, light-weight
>and not particularly noteworthy.

Well, that may just be the Paso Robles. I've got a bottle of 2007
Geyserville that I'm expecting to be substantially better. I'll know
in a few years. But then, I love Geyserville. Almost bought a house
there two years ago.

JJ