Let's consider what Paul Draper hasn't done. Draper, 70, the longtime winemaker and CEO for Ridge Vineyards, hasn't tinkered with Pinot Noir. He barely even dabbles in white wines. Though he ...

Ridge Vineyards is the exception in these and many other areas, thanks to its professorial winemaker of 35 years and chief executive officer, Paul Draper. As one of the most respected and long ...

Paul Draper, philosopher-prince of wine. The winemaking at Ridge has remained staunchly traditional—Draper likes to call it preindustrial—while proving innovative in other areas. For instance ...

Wine may be a $320 billion industry worldwide ... What we're doing is probably not popular' — Paul Draper The TTB says it formally considered ingredient labeling most recently in 2005, following ...

Paul Draper's distinctive Ridge wines helped put California on the map. 'Guidance and care,' he says, are all he adds. Set in his ways -- wonderfully - Los Angeles Times ...

Paul Draper took a different path. A self-taught winemaker who studied philosophy at Stanford, Draper has spent his career tracking down exceptional vineyards. Draper, 80, has worked 47 harvests at ...

Baugher left the iconic Cupertino winery in January 2021, after 27 years of making wine with Paul Draper. A Santa Cruz native who graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1992 with a degree in molecular ...