#grapevarietals

[musicwine2018]

"Unleashing the Perfect Pairing: Exploring the Scientific Link between Music and Wine" here is the link to the blog post published April 25, 2023 >> https://www.lovemusiclovewine.com/post/unleashing-the-perfect-pairing-exploring-the-scientific-link-between-music-and-wine  

[countrymadefoods]

Tablas Creek first imported picardan cuttings in 2003, part of the winery’s decades-long quest to bring all 13 of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape varieties to the U.S. Robert Haas and the Perrin family, which also owns Château de Beaucastel in the southern Rhône region of France, founded Tablas Creek in 1987 with the idea of making the first Rhône-style wine in the country. They brought in eight of the 13 varietals in the 1989. Fourteen years later, in 2003, Robert Haas decided to import the other five grape varietals, which included picardan grapes culled from Château de Beaucastel’s fields. 

“We brought them in not because we knew much about any of them... We brought them in because we felt it was important in our role as one of the standard bearers of the movement that 1,000 wineries are now a part of, to continue to explore what these grapes might bring to California.”