Kinkead Ridge Vineyard and an Estate Winery Weblog

Kinkead Ridge Cab Francs on a roll!

This week House Wine in Worthington Ohio (Columbus) tasted six Cabernet Francs, including one from Chinon. In the mix was the 2011 Kinkead Ridge, and the 2012 River Village Cellars... most of the attendees put our two wines as their top two favorites out of three! 

Earlier, at the American Wine Society tasting of Cab Francs in Cincinnati, we did really well... check out this rating list...

And this review of the 2011 Cab Franc on Cellartracker.com

 

Only eight more Saturdays left to buy Kinkead Ridge wines at the winery... then we will close until September 2015. If we still own the winery at that point, we will release the 2013 reds. There is NO white wine or red wine from the 2014 vintage. Winter damage. So if you are interested in Kinkead Ridge Viognier/Roussanne, Revelation, Riesling, or Traminette, we encourage you to visit or order through Water Tower Fine Wines or the Wine Merchant in Cincinnati. The 2013 is probably the last Kinkead Ridge white wine that will be made. We are retiring.

Your friendly wine blogger,

Nancy

Owner/Managing Partner, Kinkead Ridge    

Kinkead Ridge Cabernet Franc to be featured at James Beard House in New York City

A big deal! 

At the upcoming James Beard dinner May 10 (my birthday) in New York City (held in the house where James Beard cooked for friends) featuring Cincinnati chefs Julie Frances, Jean-Robert de Cavel, David Cook, David Fal, Jose Salazar, Stephen Williams and Jean Phillippe Solnom...

Kinkead Ridge 2011 Cabernet Franc will be poured with Chef Julie's Kentucky Rack of Lamb with Ful, Morels, Asparagus, Preserved Meyer Lemon and Harissa. 

For the full menu see http://www.jamesbeard.org/events/cincy-nyc 

I had to look up Ful... fūl, is an Egyptian/Sudanese dish of cooked and mashed fava beans served with vegetable oil, cumin and optionally with chopped parsley, onion, garlic, and lemon juice. A staple meal in Egypt and Sudan, it is popular in the cuisines of the Levant, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia.

There is a kitchen camera... you can sign up for email alerts at www.jamesbeard.org

Cincy in NYC | James Beard Foundation

http://www.jamesbeard.org/events/cincy-nyc

 

 

How Bottles Are Delivered

There's a new Kinkead Ridge mini-movie on youtube... how our bottles are delivered. Because the large truck from Laredo Texas can't navigate the small local streets at the winery, we offload the pallets in downtown Ripley into a local warehouse, and then unstack the boxes by hand, load them onto the truck and trailer, drive them to the winery, and unload and restack.

Spring has sprung in the hills around Ripley... the beautiful redbud trees are in bloom. This is the bend in the road just before North Pole Road, where we turn right to go up to the vineyard. Around the house, the lilacs are also in full bloom.