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Jason Haas

Proprietor at Tablas Creek Vineyard

Looking forward to an El Nino winter in 2012-2013

With two weeks of near-100° weather recently in our rear view mirror, and harvest not even yet begun, it's strange to already be thinking about winter weather. But in my email inbox today I received a special alert from the Western Weather Group, the agricultural weather specialists

New Marsanne and Grenache Blanc releases: data points on the unique 2011 vintage

With several of our white wines getting scarce in the tasting room, this week we decided that we would release two new varietal white wines: the 2011 Marsanne and the 2011 Grenache Blanc. So, we opened them early in the week to write up the tasting notes for the Web

Tasting the wines in the fall 2012 VINsider club shipment

Every six months, we send out a six-bottle shipment of wines to the members of our VINsider Wine Club. The fall shipment is the showcase for our signature wines, and is typically centered around both our Esprit de Beaucastel and our Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc. But this year is

A Summer Dinner in Vermont

By Robert Haas One of summer’s greatest challenges for the Vermont gardener is keeping up with the zucchini production. So we need to find recipes in order to benefit from our garden and, of course, wines to accompany them. Here is an old standby recipe inspired by The Victory

Veraison 2012

So far, this year's weather has been pretty much perfect. Lots of days in the 80's and low 90's, lots of nights in the 50's. Very few days where the highs were in the 70's, and only a few where

In celebration of our "Best Winery Blog" nomination, eight favorite posts from the last year

I'm proud to announce that Tablas Creek has again been named a finalist for "Best Winery Blog" at the 2012 Wine Blog Awards. The world of winery blogs has never been stronger. The other finalists include two winery blogs I follow regularly (4488: A Ridge Blog

What a difference a week makes

I haven't been giving out blow-by-blow accounts of this summer's weather, for two reasons. First, you probably don't care much, and anyway the impacts of mid-summer weather on the quality of that year's harvest are minor. Second, it'

An evening fit for a prince (or a Hearst)

I get to pour wine at lots of dinners, and even more tastings. Doing so is a key piece of how we have chosen to market ourselves: not just waiting for people to come and discover us, but going out to where they are and introducing ourselves. It's

Compost Tea: a Power Shake for the Vineyard

By Levi Glenn A few years back we started to make and apply compost tea in the vineyard. It was an effort to try to improve our soil, a central theme in organic farming: improve the soil and the plant will follow. Compost tea contains two important soil improving components:

Reflecting on a decade of Esprit de Beaucastel

This week we're bottling the 2010 Esprit de Beaucastel. About 2000 cases are going into national distribution. Another 1000 will go out to our wine club. 1500 will be allocated to our tasting room. 500 will go into our long-term library for later release. Some of the