In her weekly wine column (6 March 2015), Wall Street Journal wine writer Lettie Teague highlights the Ridge 2012 Three Valleys as one of the great red blends:
“They’re friendly, they’re cheap and they’re easy to drink—three very good reasons domestic red blends are some of the most sought-after wines in the market today. Although blended reds aren’t new (they’ve been produced for centuries all over the world) thanks to a number of talented winemakers and even more-clever wine marketers, these wines—particularly those made in California and Washington State—are a seemingly unstoppable trend…
Drinkers who want full disclosure with their blends can do no better than a wine from Ridge.”