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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

Congratulations to Tim McGowan

Congratulations to Tim McGowan, from Oak Brook, IL, who won the second annual Tablas Creek VINsider NCAA Tournament Challenge with an entry correctly predicting 6 of the Elite Eight, all of the Final Four, both of the finalists, and the Florida Gators as champions. His entry ended up in the

Robert Haas turns 80

On April 18th, my dad will turn 80. He doesn't look it, or act it, and I think that a big piece of what's kept him young has been his lack of sentimentality and his restlessness to figure out what the next interesting development would be.

You know you've arrived when... the Crate & Barrel catalog shows a bottle of Tablas Creek wine!

My father-in-law Jim Dunn used some sharp eyes to spot a bottle of Tablas Creek Cotes de Tablas Blanc in this month's Crate & Barrel "Living" catalog. Does this mean we've made it to the big time?

Sustainable vineyard? Check the dirt.

The Tablas Creek organic vineyard At this time of year, when it comes to organic and sustainable vineyards, it is clear who puts their money where their mouth is. With the winter rain that we get in the Central Coast, organically farmed vineyards turn a vibrant green, whether through a

Vertical Tasting of 1997-2005 Signature White Wines

This January, Neil Collins, Ryan Hebert, Tommy Oldre and I opened up a vertical of our top white wines, from our first vintage in 1997 to the newly released 2005. We wanted to see where the wines were in their evolution, as well as to see how our style had

The Greening of the Vineyard

Our rain is coming, later than we'd expected it, but no less welcome. This past weekend's storm dumped about 2 inches on the vineyard, and although we're still behind our typical winter's pace, the cover crops are vibrantly green, the creeks are