The Best American Thanksgiving Wine
VinePair
November 2025
Hot off the presses, VinePair has shared its recommendations for the 30 best wines to drink this Thanksgiving, and RIDGE Green & Red Zinfandel was named The Best American Thanksgiving Wine! Praised for its elegant style, moderate alcohol, and bright acidity, editors found it to “perfectly match seasonal fall flavors.”
The Best American Thanksgiving Wine
Ridge Vineyards Green & Red Zinfandel 2023
“Ridge Vineyards is an iconic American winery. Zinfandel is an iconic American(ish) grape. And it just so happens that this Zinfandel from Ridge Vineyards is the perfect Thanksgiving wine. Zin might have a reputation as a thick, jammy grape, but Ridge makes a number of elegant, site-specific expressions that show off its more refined side.
“This bottling comes from Napa’s high-elevation Green & Red Vineyard, which is named for its unique soil composition of red chert-based soils with veins of green serpentine rock. This location lends to a medium-bodied wine, with an ABV of just 13.8 percent (impressively low for Zinfandel). Its mix of tart and ripe blackberry and strawberry notes with touches of earth, cedar, and spice perfectly match seasonal fall flavors. And its bright acidity and soft tannins give it the ideal structure for a long Thanksgiving meal.”
Related Reading
- RIDGE Green & Red Zinfandel Among Top 30 Zinfandels of 2025
- A Brief History of Green & Red Vineyard (and where the name comes from!)
- Paul Draper’s 1954 Thanksgiving Story
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