Photo of the day: A green sea of vines under a blue sky

Early June, when I wrote about how cold our spring had been, seems like a lot longer ago than one month.  When I returned from a two-week trip to the Rhone (during which it was consistently in the 90s here in Paso Robles) the vineyard had grown so much

Three new wines for a Fourth of July cookout

Ok, so it was really the 3rd of July yesterday, but it was still a 4th of July cookout, complete with lots of friends and their kids, burgers and dogs on the grill, deviled eggs, potato salad, and a lemon cake decorated like an American flag.  Sure, there were a

Tablas Creek Vintage Reports 1997-2010

We're working on a new Web site, to debut later this summer.  (A screenshot of the home page of the new Web site is to the right.  Click on it to get a bigger view.  Yes, we're excited.)  One of the things that we're

Tasting Room, Then and Now

By John Morris I recently ran across this photo of our tasting room staff from an outing in December of 2007.  The thing that strikes me most about this shot is the size of our group.  Our entire tasting room staff at the time consisted of 8 people.  Now, 3

Getting "Personal" With Tablas Creek Wines

By Chelsea Magnusson The last time we sat down to go through the 2010 reds in the cellar, winemaker Ryan Hebert commented that the vintage was like a Batman movie.  And the funny thing?  That was a perfect descriptor for what we had tasted and I was blown away at

The Tablas Creek Blog is a finalist at the 2011 Wine Blog Awards!

We are proud that, for the fourth year in a row, the very Tablas Creek blog that you're reading has been named one of five finalists for "Best Winery Blog" in the 2011 Wine Blog Awards.  We won the award in 2008 (the inaugural year of

An accidental 1996-1998 Tablas Creek vertical in Chester, Vermont

In consecutive coincidences this week, a few days after chose to open at home in Chester, Vermont a 1996 Tablas Hills Cuveé Rouge, we were served by our long time friend and neighbor Tory Spater a 1997 Tablas Creek Vineyard Tablas Rouge and a 1998 Tablas Creek Vineyard Rouge at

Introducing California's first Petit Manseng

Fans of Tablas Creek on Facebook this week saw something unexpected: a photo of a bottling we've never done before.  In fact, it's a bottling that no one in California has done before, that we know of at least.  It's Petit Manseng, a white

Flowering (Finally)

It's no secret that this spring has been cold.  Our average high temperature since April first is just 69.7 degrees.  We've broken 80 just six times, and not recently: our last day over 80 was May 12th.  We haven't hit 90 yet.  Those

Investigating an Attempted Wine Scam

I got the following scam email over the weekend: From: Tim Ferrone [mailto:timferrone1@copper.net] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:44 PM To: timferrone@me.com Subject: wine order I don't know if you got my last e-mail but am resending it again due to