Tablas Creek Vineyard, "Patelin de Tablas" Rosé 2023, Paso Robles, CA

This pale peach rosé is light and heady on the nose, with notes of cherry blossom, strawberry, peach, nectarine, mandarin orange, grapefruit, and minerality. It’s light to medium bodied and is smooth, round, and juicy. On the palate it’s all ripe strawberry and nectarine, with a lingering minerality on the finish.

COUNTRY: USA

STATE: CA

APPELLATION (AVA): Paso Robles

VINTAGE: 2022

GRAPES: 67% Grenache, 21% Mourvèdre, 9% Counoise, 3% Vermentino

PRACTICE: Biodynamic and organic

VINIFICATION: 80% of the wine was direct-pressed into stainless steel tanks with no extended skin contact. The remaining 20% was de-stemmed and soaked for 12 hours for color and structure, before being added to the direct-press lots. The  wines were blended after fermentation.

STYLE: Still

COLOR: Light peach

BODY: Light-Medium

TASTE: Dry 

PRIMARY AROMAS: bright and fresh cherry blossom, strawberry, peach, nectarine, mandarin orange, grapefruit, minerality 

FLAVOR: smooth and round, juicy ripe strawberry, nectarine, minerality and salinity on the lengthy finish

FORMAT: 750ml

ALCOHOL: 12.5%

SERVICE AND SUGGESTION: Black seabass marinated with mandarin orange, lemon peel, fresh lemon verbena and fresh lemon thyme and baked, and served with a stone fruit butter sauce.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER: 

Tablas Creek comes from two renowned wine families: the Perrin family, proprietors of Château de Beaucastel, and the Haas family of Vineyard Brands. 

Château de Beaucastel has been one of Châteauneuf-du-Pape's greatest estates for decades and has been run by the Perrin family for five generations, since 1909. Jacques Perrin, who oversaw the estate from the 1950s to the 1970s was a pioneer of organic farming in the region, and was instrumental in the regeneration of traditional grape varieties, most notably Mourvèdre. This work has been carried on by the succeeding generations. 

Robert Haas played a leading role in the American wine industry for over half a century. As a wine buyer for his family’s New York retailer, Haas traveled through the cellars of France, establishing a formidable reputation as a wine taster while forging lifelong relationships with premier wine producers. When he set out on his own to import fine estate wines from France in the 1960s, he met the Perrins and became their exclusive American importer. 

Over the course of two decades traveling around the United States together to promote their French wines, Haas and the Perrins became friends, and emerged convinced that the Rhône grape varieties so well suited to the sunny south of France would thrive in California's Mediterranean climate. Starting in the 1980s, the partners searched California from the foothills of the Sierras in the north to coastal Ventura County in the south, looking for a close match to the Mediterranean climate and high pH soils of Château de Beaucastel. In 1989, they purchased a 120-acre parcel twelve miles from the Pacific Ocean in what is now the Adelaida District west of Paso Robles. They named it Tablas Creek Vineyard, after the small creek running through the property.

Tablas Creek Vineyard follows the centuries-old Châteauneuf-du-Pape tradition of blending, to produce wines that balance richness and elegance, while ensuring complexity, freshness, and minerality. Winemaking techniques, including dry farming, native yeast fermentation, and the use of large, neutral French oak foudres for aging allow our wines to reflect authentically the grapes, place and vintage from which they come.

Robert Haas was recognized by the Paso Robles Wine Community as 2007 Wine Industry Person of the Year, and in 2014 he received a lifetime achievement award from Rhone Rangers for his contributions to the American Rhone movement. Haas passed away in March 2018. Tributes to his remarkable career appeared in Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times. His son Jason, who has run the estate since the mid-2000's, was voted by his peers 2015 Paso Robles Wine Country Wine Industry Person of the Year and 2017 San Luis Obispo County Wine Industry Person of the Year.

The Perrin family has received numerous international awards, including the prestigious 2018 Meininger Award for Wine Family of the Year. In addition, Jean-Pierre and Francois Perrin were named Men of the Year by Decanter Magazine in 2014.

ABOUT THE VINEYARD(S):

The property elevation averages 1,500 feet, and the shallow, rocky limestone soils are of the same geologic origin as those at Beaucastel. Summer days are hot and sunny, but the influence of the nearby Pacific cools the nights, and the remarkably Rhône-like Paso Robles climate allows the grapes to mature fully and yet retain crisp acidity. Ample rainfall in the winter allows most of the vineyard to be dry-farmed each year.