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Harvest 2025

A collection of 9 issues

Harvest 2025 draws to a close, interrupted but not derailed by rain

Harvest 2025 draws to a close, interrupted but not derailed by rain

Early Tuesday morning, we brought in Mourvedre from our Scruffy Hill block. Ian got up early to document it, and got some dramatic photos that he shared in our social media feeds, including the below cover photo: With that pick, we have brought in our last substantial block and are

All Walks of Life: An Interview with the 2025 Harvest Interns

All Walks of Life: An Interview with the 2025 Harvest Interns

Meet the 2025 Tablas Creek Vineyard harvest interns! Ashley, Courtney, Jordyn, and Megan bring diverse backgrounds in viticulture, sustainability, and regenerative agriculture to Paso Robles, each adding their own energy and passion to our cellar and the #Harvest2025 season.

Harvest 2025 at its Midpoint: Hurry Up and Wait

Harvest 2025 at its Midpoint: Hurry Up and Wait

At a time when we're usually at the peak of harvest, we instead spent much of the week in a holding pattern. Early Wednesday morning, a rare thunderstorm rolled through, caused by a cutoff low left behind after the passage of tropical storm Mario last week.

2025 Harvest Update: A warm August gets things going, then a September cooldown pushes pause

2025 Harvest Update: A warm August gets things going, then a September cooldown pushes pause

Sometimes harvest hits like a ton of bricks. Not this year. We're almost two weeks into the 2025 harvest, and it still feels like things are ramping up. On August 28th, we brought in our first estate lot, off of our oldest Viognier planting.

Veraison 2025: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Veraison 2025: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Veraison, if you're unfamiliar with the term, is a physiological stage of grape development where the berries stop accumulating mass and start accumulating sugar. More visibly, red grapes start their color change from green, while white grapes take on more of a yellow tint. Both red and white

Don't sleep on the importance of Paso Robles' chilly nights

On Monday, I got back from two weeks of vacation in Italy. It was a lovely trip with family celebrating a milestone birthday for my mom. I come back having felt like I unplugged successfully from work, which I'm not always great at doing. Our destination within Italy

2025 Summer Solstice Vineyard Tour: It's Been Average, Which Is Just Perfect

One month ago, I wrote about how we'd exited frost season and entered flowering in ideal conditions. Not too hot, not too cold, not too windy. Just... benign. I'm pleased to report that the last month warmed up, as you'd expect in late May

Two things to celebrate: 2025 frost season ends with no damage and flowering begins under ideal conditions

This past weekend was the Paso Robles Wine Festival, our unofficial end to frost season. For the second consecutive year, it was a picture-perfect day, in the 70s and breezy, with both winter's below-freezing nights and summer's hundred-degree days feeling comfortably far away. And yet, as

Budbreak 2025 Arrives a Week Later than 2024, Showing the Impact of Our Late Rain

As the last few sprinkles of what may be the last serious rain from the 2024-25 winter wind down this afternoon, it feels like an appropriate moment to highlight that the vineyard is also making a visible transition from winter to spring. After last week's warm, sunny days,