This winery produces a wide variety of moderately priced reds. The Sonoma County Zin is from old vine, dry-farmed vineyards
Rabbit Ridge Winery
Sonoma County
Grapes
- Zinfandel
Events
Rabbit Ridge is in Paso Robles. As this is a Sonoma County Wine (…or was it?), the pin is located in Windsor, the approximate center of Sonoma County.
That bottle of Rabbit Ridge wine you uncorked might not be the wine you think it is. The embattled Sonoma County winery is paying a record $810,000 to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to settle charges that it sold wines with the wrong labels.
The settlement, the largest ever paid by a California winery, involved possible mislabeling on 45,000 cases of wine and followed a two-year investigation that uncovered violations dating back to 1994 […] McKee would not say which specific Rabbit Ridge wines were mislabeled. The ATF’s official statement said that 17,000 cases of wine “were mislabeled with geographic, varietal/brand names, vintage dates and other claims that were not appropriate to the wine in the bottle.” Another 28,000 cases had “no source records to support the claims on the label.”
Wine Spectator, 8 November 2001