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Jason Haas

Cool climate? Hot Climate? Paso Robles is both.

There is an ongoing debate, being waged in the wine press and trade, as to the benefits of cool-climate viticulture. The evidence tends to support that wine grapes tend to do best at the coolest limit of their range, perhaps because there, the grapes stay on the vine longer than

Paso Robles Wine Festival

Each year in the third weekend of May, Paso Robles holds our annual Wine Festival. The central event is a tasting in the Paso Robles downtown park on Saturday afternoon, and individual wineries build other events (dinners, seminars, barbecues, barrel tastings, etc) around this over the rest of the weekend.

Old (1950s) Vineyard Photos

I had a treat in my email today: a nice note from Bob MacGillivray, who grew up in the ranch house across the street from Tablas Creek, and whose family owned the land that is now Tablas Creek from the early 1940s until 1989. He and his brother John recently

Tablas Creek on "Good Wine Under $20"

Anyone interested should take a look at the beautiful writeup on Tablas Creek on the blog Good Wine Under $20. The blog focuses on wines (mostly) under $20, but is flexible enough to address any wine that offers quality for its price. Dr. Debs (who writes the blog) considers even

Bob Haas - 80th Birthday Accolades

It was gratifying to me to see a handful of articles on my dad's career, timed to coincide with his 80th birthday. I wrote a few weeks back about my dad's amazing career, so I won't repeat myself, but I encourage you to read

Organic weed control

It's the time of year when we start to worry about weed control. The winter's rains are all but over, and the organic vineyards are dry enough to get a tractor into. If we get the weeds now, before they go to seed, it makes our

Direct Shipping to Florida - A New Challenge

Wineries' privileges to ship to Florida are under attack. As is happening in many states, the distributors' lobby has been working to reduce or eliminate the abilities of out-of-state wineries to ship directly to consumers, and there have been recent developments consumers in Florida - or wineries who

Direct Shipping of Wine: The Supreme Court's Granholm v. Heald Case Explained

[Ed note, July 2008: I recently wrote an update analyzing the ongoing impacts of the Granholm v Heald decision on wineries that readers of this post might find interesting.] With the issues surrounding wine direct shipping becoming more complicated (check out Free the Grapes or ShipCompliant's excellent blog)

Tablas Creek in the New York Times: "The Pour"

In this Wednesday's New York Times Dining section, Eric Asimov writes a column called "The Dining Table Wine School". In it, he asks consultants at two terrific New York wine shops to each put together a mixed case of wine for him, with the total cost

An Appreciation of Blending Rhone Varietals

Some of my favorite events that we do at Tablas Creek are our annual blending seminars, where we invite our wine club members and other interested members of the public to come, taste through the component varietals, and then work as a table to put together their own blends. This