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Editorial profile
Ruth Lewandowski Wines is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and sources fruit entirely from Northern California — mostly Mendocino County, with reach into the Sierra Foothills and the tiny, single-owner Cole Ranch AVA.
The wines are named for figures from the Book of Ruth and built around old-vine, often obscure sites: Boaz blends Carignan, Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon from Testa Vineyard's century-old plantings; Naomi is a white cuvée from Gibson Ranch's old-vine Grenache Gris, reputedly the oldest documented planting of that variety in the US; Elimelech is a dry-farmed Riesling off Cole Ranch's limestone soils; and Dinos to Diamonds and the winery's Rosé both draw on Rorick Heritage Vineyard in Calaveras County, the former built around Picpoul and the latter incorporating Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo) from the 2018 vintage forward. Mahlon, Chilion and Feints draw on Fox Hill Vineyard's library of obscure Italian and Portuguese varieties, planted from nursery selections and "suitcased" cuttings.
Facts read from ruthlewandowskiwines.com
What's on file
Address
18850 HASSETT LN
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal18850 HASSETT LN, GEYSERVILLE
The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · Alexander Valley
6.1
pH, 1:1 water
14.3cm
, whole profile
108cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 148 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 11.9%
- 10.3%
- 7.9%
- 7.3%
- 6.8%
148 map units · soil described over 93.6% of the region’s area · 5.6% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 77% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
blend
old-vine fruit off Testa Vineyard, Mendocino County, per the site
white cuvée from Gibson Ranch's old-vine Grenache Gris, near Hopland, Mendocino County
dry-farmed Riesling off Cole Ranch's limestone-based soils
Picpoul from Rorick Heritage Vineyard, Sierra Foothills, per the site (2017 vintage cited); may include other varieties in later vintages
from the 2018 vintage forward contains a significant portion of Rorick Heritage Vineyard Tinta Roriz (aka Tempranillo), per the site; full composition not stated
from Fox Hill Vineyard's Italian-variety plantings; composition not stated on the page
from Fox Hill Vineyard's Italian-variety plantings; composition not stated on the page
from Fox Hill Vineyard's Italian-variety plantings; composition not stated on the page
8 of 8 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.