#tablascreek

[myvinespot]

I’m getting my ‘Paso’ on in preparation for Thursday’s virtual chat with my Rush-loving bro (and host) @1WineDude, @PasoRoblesWine, and more. We’ll be discussing the region’s lighter & brighter side – white wines & rosé. Please join us 7/27 @ 9PM EST by using Twitter hashtag #UnexpectedPaso. See you online, friends! *Clink* #wine #winelover #PasoRobles #TablasCreek #myvinespot

[evewine101]

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Getting excited for our upcoming visit with winemaker #JasonHaas at @tablascreek - who is a fan? #Repost @tablascreek with @get_repost ・・・ After listening to conversations about Tablas Creek by legendary producers at our 30th anniversary celebration we decided to invite a few to come and sit down with us on camera to talk about what Tablas Creek's arrival meant to them, and to the wine category that we all share. Here is a shortened video of the resulting project. For the full video please visit our blog. Link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Special thanks to Patrick Comiskey @patcisco (Senior Correspondent for @WineandSpirits and author of American Rhone: How Maverick Winemakers Changed the Way Americans Drink), Bob Lindquist (Proprietor, @verdadlindquistfamilywines), Justin Smith @punchpeddler (Owner & Winemaker, @saxumvineyards), and John Munch (Owner, @lecuvierwinery).⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #tablascreek #pasorobles #adelaidadistrict #pasorobleswines #rhonewine #pasorhonerangers #lecuvier #saxum #americanrhone #lindquistfamilywines (at Tablas Creek Winery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oOzXGAY2t/?igshid=19xow2ulnax90

[wine-porn]

Dinner in Paso at one of our fav restaurants, but there's LITERALLY only one thing on the list I can drink. So... @tablascreek Esprit de Beaucastel it IS!!! Are you complaining? Best shut up now. Sunday is Prime Rib night at @thehatchrotisserie and this perfectly-rare baby came on a bed of BUTTERY smashed taters and topped with horseradish creme fraîche. The Tablas was showing well tonight, young and actually a little closed in, but dinally coming around to fat slathers of dried fruit and a brilliantly acidic core and a little heat. No tannin. 2010 #tablascreek MGSC 45/30/21/4 14-5 (at The Hatch Rotisserie & Bar) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0NHgoBnyHI/?igshid=ucdynoftgohb

[wine-porn]

Bricking hard.  An electrical fire vegetal Dr. Pepper rises out of the glass, swirling dirty and acerbic in the nose but aligned with a declining slather of flabby fruit, a bit of oxidation and overall: just smooth ripe-fruity blandness intensified with dilly spice and a shot of Luxardo. Late-breathing washes this thing out even more, and I am a bit shocked how meagerly awkward it is at this young age. My opinions on this wine are well-documented. It just isn't my favorite wine from Tablas. I know that is heresy and so sue me, but it keeps happening, and here we are... again... with another vintage... which leaves me in the IDENTICAL opinion as every other visit. I'm sorry! I know how hard that is to read for the stalwart Tablas followers and even worse for the winery itself. My favorite wines from Tablas are the single varieties. Hands down any day all day I will take the syrah, the grenache, the mourvedre, the tannat, the counoise--ANYTHING over not only the Esprit, but also (to a much lesser extent) the Patelin and the Gobelet and the new Cotes. I just don't like their blends. The first day of Hospice Du Rhone last year, Jason was pouring 6's 7's and 8's of all the single varieties and the Syrah was easily the Wine Of The Room. Next to them, the Rhone blends faded--as they always do for me--into a murky playing field positioned into the odd blandness of *Everything interesting has been blended out of them*--something which happens frequently for me with Esprit, and to a far lesser extent with Patelin and Gobelet. In the mouth, burnt taffy and spicy vinaigrette with hot buttered toast compliments. Nutty and grainy on entrance, the hot/ripe fruit runs up against rubber-band and hot plastic bag over the middle, picking up burnt spicy overtones down the backside as the forgettable burn etches itself--once again--onto your memory. Fruit--and that word is a bit of a stretch here--is fading at best and wanton wasteoids of wantonness at worst. I love Tablas Creek, but this wine just flat-out isn't showing well. If you've got Esprit 10's, I would visit them sooner rather than later. 2010 #TABLASCREEK VINEYARD #espritdebeaucastel MGSC 43/30/21/4 #PasoRobles 14.5 (at Tablas Creek Vineyard) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByPBseNnTkG/?igshid=1d2bkyjkmyfin

[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.” 

[wine-porn]

Tasting the BRAND NEW Côte de Tablas from alongside the stalwart Patelin de Tablas. Côte grenache heavy, Patelin syrah heavy. You know which is which, right? 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 @tablascreek @bluemoonoveravila #avilabeach @avilabeachca @avilabeach #tablascreek #bluemoonoveravila #rhone #wine #redwine #shareSLO @slowinecountry @pasorobles @pasowine @pasorobleswineries #grenache #syrah #pasorobles (at Blue Moon Over Avila)

[bsvaldez]

Hacienda Valdez 2016 #Grenache. 11 year old #TablasCreek clones. Hoping to make some good vino this fall. #garnacha #wine #backyardvineyard (at Hacienda Valdez)