San Francisco - Two Wineries around Los Gatos

One of the things my wife wanted to go to on our trip to the San Francisco area was a few wineries. In this case she wanted to revisit Thomas Fogarty and Ridge.

Thomas Fogardy was the fellow who invented the embolectomy catheter for vascular medicine. He also liked wine and started with a few acres in 1979. Now at over 300 acres with 25 devoted to vines, you can enjoy this oasis off the Skyline Boulevard. I found the wines tasted quite good.

The land Ridge is on was used for growing grapes for wine since 1885 but the Ridge winery was founded in the 1960's. It wins world awards for its wine and placed highly in the legendary Judgement of Paris in 1976, where established French wines were blind taste tested with California wines. It also won in a recreation with the original vintages for the 30th anniversary. I found the wines very very good and some are recommended to age for several more decades to get more out of them.

Below is a view from Ridge.

There are many more wineries in the area. Why not give Sonoma a break and try something different when in the San Francisco area and looking for wine.