Caboose (Advance Tasting Program wine)
Vineyard
First RIDGE Caboose: 2002
Location: Southern
end of Geyserville Township (Sonoma County) on the steep hills overlooking
Alexander Valley
Soils: Gravel clay loam
with weathered rock
Age of vines: Old
mixed zinfandel, planted late 1890s, ten acres. Zinfandel, planted 1990,
five acres.
Training: Head trained
(no trellis), spur pruned.
Yields: 2-3 tons/acre
History
Ridge has made a Geyserville from the Trentadue family ranch for thirty-six consecutive years. The majority of grapes are grown on the old Whitten Ranch portion of the property. We obtained a long-term lease on Whitten Ranch in 1990, guaranteeing access to this exceptional fruit — mostly zinfandel plus complementary varietals carignane and petite sirah — for three decades.
