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Frost Damage and Recovery

We're two weeks removed from the frosts of April 7-9, which look like they'll play a major role in defining the 2011 vintage. With temperatures down to 24 degrees on consecutive nights, we sustained near 100% damage in the Grenache, Grenache Blanc, Viognier and Marsanne (the

Crazy April Weather: Ice, Thunder, Hail and Snow in Paso Robles

The warm, sunny weather of last week seems like a distant memory. In the last 24 hours we've had two hailstorms (the second with peals of thunder), a hard freeze, with temperatures down as low as 24 degrees in our coldest spots and even the tops of the

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

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 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,

Recap and Photos from a Deliciously Wet Weekend

Since Thursday night, we've had nearly seven inches of rain at Tablas Creek. We're up over 11 inches for the year, and ahead of what we'd expect on our average 28-inches-per-year pace. Even better, this rain has been spread over four days, giving it

A post-harvest round table discussion with Tablas Creek's winemakers

Late last week, with harvest concluded and the winemaking team rested up after a long, grueling harvest, national sales manager Tommy Oldre caught up with them to talk about their 2010 harvest experience. In the video, you'll see winemakers Neil Collins, Ryan Hebert, and Chelsea Franchi each give

Putting the Vineyard to Bed for Winter

We're enjoying the warm weather after our first winter storm passed through last night. It dropped about an inch of rain on the vineyard, and the wind completed the defoliation of the vines begun by the two weeks of frosty nights in late November. This is a quiet

Biodynamics and dry-farming: repairing the failings of "modern" viticulture

Week before last, I had the privilege of representing Tablas Creek at the Yosemite Vintners' Holidays. This event (which I wrote about a few months back in my post 5 great events for food&wine lovers) was as usual a treat, with unexpectedly warm weather, about 175 attendees