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Tablas Creek wine dinner at Simon Pearce recapped on oenoLogic

One advantage for Tablas Creek is that my parents still spend part of the year in Vermont. This means that, unlike a lot of California wineries, we get a chance to have a home base outside California in which to build good supporters through regular patronage. Vermont (at least Southern

Pacific Storm Recap & Photos: Saturday, January 5th

Happily, we've emerged largely without damage, but with a welcome replenishing of groundwater. The one-day rainfall totals at Tablas Creek were a whopping 6.02 inches, the most we've ever measured in one day since we installed the weather station seven years ago. The damaging

Pacific Storm Update: Friday evening

As of 5:00pm, we'd already received 4.94 inches of rain out at the weather station in the middle of the vineyard. The forecast suggests it's supposed to continue raining hard through tonight, so the estimates we'd had of nearly 10 inches now

Pacific storm update: Friday mid-day

We're in the early stages of one of the strongest storms to hit Paso Robles in decades. We're expecting between 6-12 inches of rain at Tablas Creek, with winds upwards of 60 miles per hour. We're closing the offices and tasting room at

Learning how to Blog: a few year-end reflections on two years of blogging

Although I started this blog about two years ago, it's really only in the past year that I've felt I've found my voice. The major benefit of blogging, for me, is that I get a chance to clarify my own thoughts on issues I&

Chavignol Sancerre Thomas-Labaille 2006 "Les Monts Damnés"

In October, we were lucky enough to have Patrick Hub visit us at Tablas Creek. Patrick is the proprietor of Olympic Wine Merchant, the top wine shop in Olympia, Washington. We spent much of the day in the cellar and in the vineyard, and generally got into the how and

Rainfall microclimates in Paso Robles

Appellations are by nature generalizations. You do your best in defining one to understand macro-level differences in soils, climate and rainfall (the three components which together give a place its signature). And, practically speaking, you won't ever be able to delineate an area that is absolutely uniform.

Rain... finally!

We're in the middle of a true Pacific winter storm, with driving rain and 20-30mph winds. This is badly needed; we're coming off a winter with only about 35% of typical rainfall, and we've only had about two inches so far this year.

The TTB's new AVA rules: a well-meaning step in the wrong direction

I was surprised with how quickly the TTB published new draft rules to resolve the issues surrounding the approval of new AVAs that might conflict with existing brand names, or that are nested within other existing AVAs. [I wrote about this a few weeks back at some length.] A first

A little reminder of why we're in California (and a look back at Vermont)

Many of you probably know that my dad's wine career started in the Northeast. He was born in Brooklyn, grew up in suburban New York, and moved back to Manhattan to work at his father's wine shop M. Lehmann. Even after my grandfather sold that shop