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A beautiful day in the neighborhood

Every year, there's one day where all of a sudden it feels like spring. This year, that day is today. After a week of storms, and a month and a half of cloudy, wet, cool and often cold weather, today the sun is out, the air is soft

A welcome wet start to Spring

In an ideal world, we wouldn't receive five inches of rain on one of our three busiest tasting room weekends of the year. But we're not complaining. We're now up over 31 inches of rain for the winter, topping last year's total

Chronicling a Year in the Southern Rhone

In January I had the pleasure of sitting in on Marc Perrin's presentation of the wines of Beaucastel, Domaines Perrin, and La Vieille Ferme to the Vineyard Brands sales team at their annual sales meeting. (I followed with a presentation of Tablas Creek). The wines were beautiful, and

Our New Tasting Room is Ready!

We're thrilled that our months-long expansion is in its final stages. The building is done. The furniture in the new tasting room is complete, and that in our semi-private tasting rooms is nearly done. We've got most of our landscaping in the ground, with

Green, Green, Green

We're in an intermediate sunny period between two winter storm systems, which is exactly what we want at this time of year. We've been worried about how advanced the local flora was, so having alternating rain and cold serves the twin purposes of continuing to replenish

A (major) change in the weather for Paso Robles

Photos are probably the most dramatic. In just a couple of days we've gone from: To: And it's just the beginning. We've gotten nearly a half an inch this morning, and we're expecting storms on Tuesday, Friday, next Monday and next Thursday.

Telling the Tablas Creek story... without words

As regular readers of the blog (or anyone who's visited Tablas Creek in the last six months) will know, we're in the final stages of expanding our winery and building a new tasting room. The building is done, and we're working on landscaping the

Full Moon and Violet Skies at Tablas Creek

Winters bring a different sort of beauty to Paso Robles. The hillsides turn softly green, the earth turns a deep brown, and the black oaks lose their leaves, exposing mistletoe and Spanish moss, and contrasting with the live oaks with which they share their wooded hillsides. A little later in

Wonderful food pairing: Pasta Puttanesca and Tablas Creek Mourvedre

Over the holidays, we had lots of elaborate meals. Christmas dinner, for us, was lobster with drawn butter, with which we paired the 2007 Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc, my pick for the best white wine we've ever made. The pairing was great, and the lobsters delicious. But one

A beautifully foggy January morning

After about a month of rainy weather, the sun has come back out at Tablas Creek. And we're thrilled with the rainfall we've received; we're over 17 inches of rain so far this winter, about 175% of normal at this point of the year,