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Jason Haas

Beats and Bottling

Now, a media arts major I am not. However, armed with a Flip camera, iMovie, and an assignment to chronicle the vineyard and winemaking cycle at Tablas, I will be trying my hand at video production over the next year. These videos will be posted on our blog and our

The appeal of wine in keg... and an appeal to the restaurants who want it

A few years ago, we received a request from Chef Todd Rushing of the Concentrics Restaurant Group in Atlanta asking if we'd consider bottling... er kegging... one of our wines for him. It didn't make sense at the time since we were ten months away from

Early Summer in the Vineyard

I got back this week from two weeks on the east coast, and the vineyard had grown so much in my time away that it was barely recognizable. The weather so far in June has been ideal: lots of days in the 80s, a few in the low 90s but

Business as Usual

by Robert Haas Or, maybe I should write business as unusual: then and now. As you can see from the photo view, we are starting new construction on the third and last phase of building Tablas Creek Vineyard’s winery: adding 8,000 sq. ft. to give us one-third more

Notes from the Cellar: Pomp and Circumstance

By Chelsea Magnusson The clanging and hammering coming from the construction crew outside the winery seems to echo the pandemonium going on inside the winery. Construction officially began last week, which is both exciting and stressful. Stressful because we have our big bottling session lined up for the the end

Grapes of the Rhone Valley: Grenache Noir

Grenache, (also known as Grenache Noir, to distinguish it from its white counterpart Grenache Blanc) is the most widely planted grape in the southern Rhône Valley, and the second most widely planted varietal in the world. It is most often blended (with Syrah and Mourvèdre in France and Australia, and

An update on HR 5034: a good meeting with Kevin McCarthy and a positive note from Diane Feinstein... but the co-sponsors list grows to 106

About a month ago, prompted by an email exchange I had with Representative Kevin McCarthy, I wrote about HR 5034, a bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives by the beer and wine wholesalers associations that would, among other impacts, likely restrict or eliminate out-of-state winery direct shipping.

Changes at the 2010 Paso Robles Wine Festival

We just finished the Paso Robles Wine Festival for 2010. As usual, it was a whirlwind of activity, with a delicious dinner Friday night at the Cass House Inn in Cayucos, pourings with the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance on Friday and Saturday evenings downtown in Paso Robles, and our

Why Limestone Matters for Wine Grape Growing

[Editor's Note June 2020: I've written a new version of this blog, taking into account new research and correcting a few areas that I've come to believe were inaccurate or incomplete. Please see Why Calcareous Soils Matter for Vineyards and Wine Grapes.] Winemaker and

Tablas Creek is a 2010 "Best Winery Blog" finalist!

I'm proud to announce that Tablas Creek has again been named a finalist for "Best Winery Blog" at the 2010 Wine Blog Awards. These awards were created four years ago by the tireless Tom Wark (whose blog Fermentationis a daily must-read for anyone in the wine