Sign in Subscribe

Topic

Food & Wine

A collection of 139 issues

Modern Organic, Stone Ground Olive Oil

When we started planning out the Tablas Creek vineyard, we decided to line the roads within the vineyard with olive trees. Olives are traditional in the Rhone, and they have the added advantage that they aren't much work, won't grow so big they'd shade

Bottle Variation, Very Old Wines and the Cork/Screwcap Dilemma

For Christmas dinner this year, we cooked a standing rib roast with Bearnaise sauce, Yorkshire pudding, broccoli, and rice. The dinner was wonderful, capped off by an absolutely delicious mature Burgundy: the 1985 Corton Clos du Roi from Prince de Merode. We chose the wine because we thought it would

Thoughts on our Annual Futures Tasting and En Primeur Offering

Each December, we offer our VINsider Wine Club members the chance to taste the upcoming release of our two top red wines, before bottling, and reserve these wines at a futures-only 30% discount off of expected release price. We began this program back in 2003 (offering futures on the 2002s

Thanksgiving Wine Suggestions from the Tablas Creek Staff

We've always felt that Tablas Creek wines make great pairings with Thanksgiving meals. The Rhone whites (particularly those based on Roussanne) are rich enough to stand up to turkey or ham, and the Rhone reds (particularly those based on Grenache) are fruity enough, spicy enough, and have enough

50-Mile Dinner with Cass House Inn & Restaurant

Last week, we had the pleasure to participate in a 50-mile radius dinner at the Cass House in Cayucos. This sort of dinner, where all the components served are sourced locally, and most are organic, is particularly gratifying to be able to support. When the food is great, the setting

A family wedding (and a wonderful 1983 Pommard: Prince de Merode "Clos de la Platiere")

Regular readers have probably noticed a gap of about 10 days since my last post. Yes, this means I have broken one of my fundamental rules for winery blogging, but I can only offer the excuse that I've been busy in Vermont preparing for my sister's

Pig Roast!

Each August, we hold a pig roast here at the winery. We got the idea originally five years ago because our neighbor was having problems with feral pigs and offered to get us one for an event, and have continued the event with farm-raised pigs (in the absence of conveniently

Tannat, Heart Health and Longevity

In the last year, we've seen a growing trickle of requests for our Tannat, often from people who are not our typical wine consumers. The most recent of these was a request from a gentleman in Mississippi (which is unfortunately not a state to which we can ship)

Eleven-Wine Dinner in Los Angeles with Campanile (and a Los Angeles Rhone Rangers tasting)

I don't normally post information about upcoming events on the blog (we have a page for that on the Tablas Creek Web site: http://www.tablascreek.com/upcomingevents.html). But, I have two events coming up next week in Los Angeles that I think are cool enough that

Paso Robles Wine Festival 2008 Musings and Photos

The 2008 Paso Robles Wine Festival is in the books. I've poured at the last seven festivals, and this one was one of the hottest. Both Saturday and Sunday topped 100 degrees (an unwelcome change from the past few years, which were beautiful) and I think it deterred