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Harvest 2007

A collection of 15 issues

Reflecting on 15 Years at Tablas Creek – An Interview with Three Familiar Faces

By Ian Consoli 2007 was a big year for Tablas Creek. It was a blockbuster vintage, one of the most intense (and highest-scoring) in our history. It was the first year we could ship to five new states (Florida, Maine, Michigan, South Carolina, and Vermont) as unconsititutional state laws were

If you liked 2007, try 2021: a quarter-century of vintage doppelgangers at Tablas Creek

It's hard to believe, but 2021 was our 25th harvest here at Tablas Creek. What began as a simple model to make two wines, one red and one white, in the style of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, has blossomed into nearly thirty wines each year, across three colors, nineteen grapes, and

A Horizontal Retrospective: 2007 at Age Ten

In 2014 we began the tradition of looking back each year at the vintage from ten years before. Part of this is simple interest in seeing how a wide range of our wines -- many of which we don't taste regularly -- have evolved, but we also have

Vintage Hollywood

I have recently been finding myself contrasting two recent vintages primarily in terms of their personalities, rather than (or at least, in addition to) their flavors. Our 2011 vintage produced wines that are tense, wound-up, powerful and brooding, that make you make an effort to get to know them. The

Tasting the wines in the spring 2010 wine club shipment

Each spring and fall, we send out six wines to the members of our VINsider Wine Club. With each shipment we include a little update from our wine club director, an order form, and, of course, production and tasting notes for the six wines in the club shipment. As these

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

The challenges of running out of wine

We're not running out of wine. Yet. But, for the first time ever, I can see it looming. It's not a familiar position for me. When we started, we made some mistakes in our marketing, the largest of which was neglecting to create a marketing plan.

Winemaker Neil Collins Discusses Harvest 2007 with winerychannel.tv

If you haven't checked out winerychannel.tv yet, you should. It's online television, dedicated to the world of wine. Like many members of the new media, they're fans of what's going on in the Central Coast, and we welcomed them up here

End of 2007 Harvest!

With the completion of the "Mount Mourvedre" block behind the winery, we're officially done with the 2007 harvest. Like each year, it's had its own challenges, this time at 65 days the longest extent between the beginning of harvest (August 27th) and the end

Grenache Harvest Photos

As we'd hoped, the rain from the end of last week was followed by cool, sunny and breezy weather, and the half-inch of rain that we got didn't have any negative impact on the hanging fruit. This week, we're bringing in the rest of