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On the Rhone: a Post-Cruise Appreciation

By Robert Haas. Special thanks to Jeffery Clark, who provided most of the photos. I’m back in Vermont, basking in the afterglow of our Tablas Creek cruise of the Rhone. It was a ten-day celebration (including the optional three-day visit to Paris and Champagne) of great food and wine,

The Early Years of Tablas Creek

We recently received a treasure trove of photos from our original Nursery Manager, Dick Hoenisch. He oversaw the initial phases of Tablas Creek, from developing and building our nursery to planting our first vineyard blocks to our initial harvests and ultimately the building of our winery in 1997. He'

Veraison 2015 Suggests an Early September Start to Harvest

Although we've been distracted by the more unusual occurrence of last weekend's summer rainstorm, this week also has provided the annual milestone of veraison. Veraison marks the point where the grapes stop accumulating mass and start accumulating sugar (and, more noticeably, change color from green to

Did 2.6" of rain in July really just happen?

Yesterday, we hosted a seminar on dry-farming. In the rain. In Paso Robles. In July. And it wasn't just a little rain, either. As we were talking about how we've been working to plant increasing acres of vines without any irrigation infrastructure, and how we'

State of the Vineyard, Mid-Summer Edition

This has been an unusual summer. We had the warmest late-winter/early-spring anyone can remember. This was followed by the coolest May in 20 years. Then June was hot. July, so far, has been cool, and we've even had (very unusual for summer in Paso Robles) a couple

Photos of the Day (Week? Summer?): Celestial Meetings

The sky put on a show last night. Not only was there a beautiful full moon, but Venus and Jupiter came together in a conjunction that takes place just once per year. And the timing worked: the moon was rising in the east at the same time that the planets

Through the glass doors: 360° views of Tablas Creek Vineyard, courtesy of Google

By Lauren Phelps When you have a limited amount of time to visit a new place for example, how do you decide where to visit? If you’re anything like me, you type the name of the location into Google and see what pops up. Well, today if you Google

Dry-Farming in California's Drought, Part 2: Looking Forward to the Past

In the first part of this 3-part series on farming in California's drought, I looked at how our climate here in California differs in crucial ways from that in the Mediterranean, and what lessons we took from these differences in how we would choose to farm. In this

Photo Essay: Spring in the Vineyard

This spring continues to be benign. After our scare in early April, we've had three weeks of beautiful weather, with lows between 36° and 45°, and highs between 57° and 82°. The average low has been 39° and the average high 70°: really perfect spring weather. We'

State of the Vineyard, mid-April Edition

Ten days ago, I was convinced that we were going to get clobbered by frost in the aftermath of a cold, wet Pacific storm. All the conditions were in place: an early budbreak, a weather pattern shift, and a powerful late-season cold front with origins in Alaska that was heading