page_title: Ridge Vineyards
section_title: Winemakers
hierarchical_section_title: Ridge Vineyards / Winemakers
caption_attribution_description: Back label of Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon 1990
context_page_description: Ridge Vineyards is a California winery specializing in 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 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 gained prominence for its fifth-place finish in the 1976 "Judgment of Paris" wine tasting.
caption: Back label of 1990 Monte Bello
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