Ridge acquired Lytton Springs in 1991, but the Zinfandel vineyard dates to 1901 — the Dry Creek benchmark against which other Zinfandels are measured. Paul Draper's decades of stewardship set the template for serious California Zinfandel. The straw-bale, earthen-plaster winery looks out on century-old vines from the tasting room.
Ridge Vineyards' Lytton Springs property is one of the most historically significant vineyard sites in Dry Creek Valley — old-vine Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, and Carignane planted in the 1900s on benchland soils above the valley floor. Paul Draper's decades of stewardship at Ridge set the template for California's serious Zinfandel movement, and Lytton Springs remains the benchmark against which all other Dry Creek Zinfandels are measured. Essential.
Lytton Springs, Dry Creek Valley — The flagship: a field blend of 100-plus-year-old vines (mostly Zinfandel with Petite Sirah, Carignane, Mataro and Alicante Bouschet) co-fermented and aged in air-dried American oak. The 2023 was named Wine Spectator's #3 Wine of the Year; the wine is the quintessential expression of Dry Creek Zinfandel.
Lytton Estate Petite Sirah, Dry Creek Valley — A varietal bottling from the same historic benchland site, dark, structured and built for the cellar.
Ridge purchased the Lytton Springs vineyard in 1972 and farms it as a single-vineyard, non-interventionist estate, championing heritage field blends from vines planted more than a century ago on the hills between Dry Creek and Alexander Valley.
Ridge's Lytton Springs property — acquired by the winery in 1991, though the Zinfandel vineyard dates to 1901 — sits at the northeast corner of Dry Creek Valley and produces field-blend Zinfandels built on old-vine concentration and intentional restraint. The winery itself is an eco-sustainable building made of compacted rice straw bales and earthen plaster, with the tasting room overlooking the century-old vines. The Estate Tasting Experience ($35 per person, complimentary for wine club members) pours five single-vineyard wines from Ridge's estates in both Sonoma County and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Private tastings, vineyard tours, and food-pairing experiences are also offered. Adults only; ChargePoint and Tesla chargers available on-site.
Shauna Rosenblum is the Lytton Springs winemaker for Ridge Vineyards, named to the role in 2022 to lead winemaking at the Dry Creek Valley estate and its distinctive straw-bale winery. The daughter of Kent Rosenblum of Rosenblum Cellars, she grew up immersed in the craft — checking sugar levels by age three and sitting in on blending trials as a teenager — and spent fourteen years as winemaker at Rock Wall Wine Company before joining Ridge. Working in collaboration with head winemaker John Olney, she carries forward Ridge's six-decade commitment to single-vineyard, traditionally made wines, above all the old-vine, Zinfandel-based field blends that built Lytton Springs' reputation.
Paul Draper is the legendary winemaker who shaped Ridge’s identity for nearly half a century. A Stanford philosophy graduate, he joined Ridge in 1969 and made the wines until his 2016 retirement at age eighty, becoming Winemaker Emeritus. His 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet placed in the famed 1976 Judgment of Paris — and later won the thirty-year rematch. It was Draper who first saw the old Lytton Springs vines in 1972 and began making Ridge’s benchmark Dry Creek Zinfandel from them, championing California’s historic field-blend vineyards. He remains one of the most revered figures in American wine.
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Lytton Springs, Dry Creek Valley — The flagship: a field blend of 100-plus-year-old vines (mostly Zinfandel with Petite Sirah, Carignane, Mataro and Alicante Bouschet) co-fermented and aged in air-dried American oak. The 2023 was named Wine Spectator's #3 Wine of the Year; the wine is the quintessential expression of Dry Creek Zinfandel.
Lytton Estate Petite Sirah, Dry Creek Valley — A varietal bottling from the same historic benchland site, dark, structured and built for the cellar.
Ridge purchased the Lytton Springs vineyard in 1972 and farms it as a single-vineyard, non-interventionist estate, championing heritage field blends from vines planted more than a century ago on the hills between Dry Creek and Alexander Valley.
Ridge Vineyards' Lytton Springs property is one of the most historically significant vineyard sites in Dry Creek Valley — old-vine Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, and Carignane planted in the 1900s on benchland soils above the valley floor. Paul Draper's decades of stewardship at Ridge set the template for California's serious Zinfandel movement, and Lytton Springs remains the benchmark against which all other Dry Creek Zinfandels are measured. Essential.
Ridge's Lytton Springs property — acquired by the winery in 1991, though the Zinfandel vineyard dates to 1901 — sits at the northeast corner of Dry Creek Valley and produces field-blend Zinfandels built on old-vine concentration and intentional restraint. The winery itself is an eco-sustainable building made of compacted rice straw bales and earthen plaster, with the tasting room overlooking the century-old vines. The Estate Tasting Experience ($35 per person, complimentary for wine club members) pours five single-vineyard wines from Ridge's estates in both Sonoma County and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Private tastings, vineyard tours, and food-pairing experiences are also offered. Adults only; ChargePoint and Tesla chargers available on-site.
Shauna Rosenblum is the Lytton Springs winemaker for Ridge Vineyards, named to the role in 2022 to lead winemaking at the Dry Creek Valley estate and its distinctive straw-bale winery. The daughter of Kent Rosenblum of Rosenblum Cellars, she grew up immersed in the craft — checking sugar levels by age three and sitting in on blending trials as a teenager — and spent fourteen years as winemaker at Rock Wall Wine Company before joining Ridge. Working in collaboration with head winemaker John Olney, she carries forward Ridge's six-decade commitment to single-vineyard, traditionally made wines, above all the old-vine, Zinfandel-based field blends that built Lytton Springs' reputation.
Paul Draper is the legendary winemaker who shaped Ridge’s identity for nearly half a century. A Stanford philosophy graduate, he joined Ridge in 1969 and made the wines until his 2016 retirement at age eighty, becoming Winemaker Emeritus. His 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet placed in the famed 1976 Judgment of Paris — and later won the thirty-year rematch. It was Draper who first saw the old Lytton Springs vines in 1972 and began making Ridge’s benchmark Dry Creek Zinfandel from them, championing California’s historic field-blend vineyards. He remains one of the most revered figures in American wine.
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