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Mozart Festival Dinner at Tablas Creek

The local cultural event for which we make our largest sponsorship commitment each year is the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, which brings world-class music to the Central Coast for a two-week festival in July. We have, in the past, donated wine for their gala dinner "The Empress'

Blending a "Classic Cuvee" with Craig Jaffurs

One of the fun parts of winemaking is the opportunity to put together special lots for special causes. Sometimes we put together unique blends of our own, but more and more when we are putting together barrel lots for auction, we have chosen to reach out to other producers who

Vineyard Solar Power System

We're always trying to find innovative ways that we can make better use of the resources we have here at Tablas Creek. One resource we have (as anyone who has visited during the summer can attest) is the power of the sun, which shines about 320 days a

Wine Spectator Features Tablas Creek

It was great to see that the Wine Spectator, in their June 15th issue, focused on the Central Coast. In the overview article, titled "California's New Frontier", James Laube selects Tablas Creek as one of four profiles "...of a winemaker or grapegrower who represents some

Organic Vineyards... and Organic Wines

I was recently approached by an eco-friendly marketing agency who, along with the Wine Institute, was thinking about a campaign promoting wine made from organic grapes. At Tablas Creek, we believe strongly that organic farming gives us better grapes that taste more like where they are grown and more like

Vertical Tasting of 1997-2004 Signature Red Wines

The following article appeared in our February 2006 newsletter, and received so many comments that I thought it would be useful to put up online. We've always thought our red Rhone blends would age well, but hadn't done a formal vertical tasting in a while. Before

Cover Crops in the Vineyard

Each winter, we plant our vineyard with a cover crop. This mix of peas, oats and vetch keeps erosion to a minimum, provides a habitat for beneficial insects, and contributes nutrients to the organic vineyard. In the winter, this cover crop is mostly green, dominated by the oats and vetch.

Congratulations to Lane Forsythe

Congratulations to Lane Forsythe of Arlington, VA, who won the first-ever Tablas Creek VINsider NCAA Tournament pool. In this crazy year where no #1 seed made the final four, Lane correctly picked two of the four final four participants (UCLA and Florida) and ended up in the 94.7th percentile

New Tasting Room at Tablas Creek

When we built the Tablas Creek winery and office building in 1997, we were under the belief that we would be purely a production facility, and leave the marketing and sales of our wine entirely to other people. So, when we designed the building, we did not include a tasting

Field grafting Picpoul Blanc

We grafted over a section of Roussanne yesterday, replacing it with Picpoul Blanc. Picpoul has thrived here, and its bright acidity makes a nice addition in our Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc blend. The crew first cut the Roussanne vines about a foot from the surface, and then field grafted the