Tablas Creek Vineyard (@tablascreek)

Harvest Intern Hannah, is showing you how we start cleaning the wine press from the top!   The press is used to squeeze the juice from wine grapes off their skins (and sometime stems) following a fermentation period. The press is great for taking care of large lots, but cleaning it is a sticky…

We have our first lambs of the season… and lots of twins! We are already up to 13 lambs, which bodes well for a large lambing season this, with many ewes showing the possibility of twins to come. That’s always a good sign of the quality of the forage and the health of the flock. Welcome to the…

Now that's a happy ferment!   Fermentation creates a lot of pressure inside a sealed barrel. As yeast converts grape sugars into alcohol, it produces roughly equivalent amounts of carbon dioxide gas.   In fact, a standard barrel can generate thousands of liters of gas during primary fermentation…

We are wiping the slate clean in preparation for this year's harvest! It is officially that time of year when the cellar starts ramping up as the first grapes begin to arrive.   Every season, we clear our cellar chalkboard to make room for the incoming vintage. This board will track the entire…

From the vineyard to the glass, we pour love and care into every bottle at Tablas Creek

We were filming content about harvest, and a plane flew close by the tasting room! Seriously though, harvest is here, and it's a great time to visit the tasting room. We'll put daily updates on our chalkboard outside the tasting room so you're connected to what's happening in the cellar. We offer…

Chardonnay on a Rhône-inspired vineyard? Proprietor Jason Haas shares a fun piece of our history involving an unexpected Chardonnay block we grew for over a decade.   In our early days, we brought in a coveted Chardonnay clone from France for another producer, only to discover they needed eighty…

It's waxing season at Tablas Creek!   While the sound effects are just for fun, the decision to wax our 2024 Esprit de Tablas Magnums is entirely practical. Why do we go through the extra step for these larger bottles? It all comes down to long-term aging.   The Perrin family has studied the aging…

We welcomed two KuneKune piglets to the property!   In our ongoing quest to increase biodiversity, we brought in these pigs with the intention of practicing multi-species grazing in the vineyard.   The goal is to eventually introduce them to our flock of sheep so they can forage in the vines…

We usually have a few weeks between our last bottling and the start of harvest.   This year, we had sixteen hours.   But we don't want the beginning of harvest to overshadow what we put into bottle this week. Hello #2024Panoplie and #2024EspritdeTablas!   The 2024 Esprit de Tablas, made from the…

Harvest started! …kind of.   We had our earliest first pick in our history today. August 7th. The earliest recorded on our property before this was August 17th. But this pick comes with an asterisk, as we don’t expect harvest to really kick off until later next week or early the following.   So…

Step one of rejuvenating our seven-acre Mourvèdre Mountain block: breaking ground.   We are currently running a Yeoman’s plow horizontally and vertically across this recently cleared block to kick off the rejuvenation process. Doing this deep tillage right now serves a few key purposes for the…

July at Tablas Creek   From the peaceful vineyards to the breeze on the patio, summer is a great time to be at the Tablas Creek estate.   We'd love to have you to see for yourself!   Reservations can be made on our website, and walk-ins are always welcome. Hope to see you soon!

We asked our Tablas Creek team a very important question: What sound does a pressure washer make? Their answers did not disappoint!   Who do you think did it best?

Sound on to experience the Tablas Creek tasting room through these captured moments. From the clink of glassware to the hum of conversation, this “Sounds of the Tasting Room” clip offers a sensory look at a day at the estate.   We hope this clip brings a bit of the vineyard to your day. We look…

Jason takes you into our experimental block to share how we keep our vineyard healthy without relying on permanent irrigation. Located right outside the winery, this demonstration block features head-trained vines of all 16 of our Rhone varieties. When we have a vine that does not make it, we…

Here's a quick video on the process of layering! We're layering in our viognier block to fill in missing vines and maintain the density of the block. By burying a cane from a healthy neighbor, the vine sends out roots from each bud to eventually produce a new, self-sustaining plant. This technique…

Proprietor Jason Haas explains our pruning sequence as we move through different vineyard blocks. Roussanne vines are already pruned into their structure for the year, while the Syrah vines, just one row over, remain unpruned. This is because pruning stimulates growth, and we use the timing of…

Sound on for one of the best parts about being in the vineyard: the sounds of birds chirping and bees buzzing. While the calendar might say we have two more weeks of winter, the activity on our vineyard suggests that spring is already here. These bees are currently focused on the blooming rosemary…

This is a close up of a field graft being applied to a vine where the initial bud (see white tape at the base of the vine) did not take. This is a common part of the process when transitioning a block from one variety to another. Two years ago we began a significant changeover in our old nursery…

The next generation of guardian dogs arrived at Tablas Creek! The new puppies are Turkish Boz, a different livestock guardian breed from the Spanish Mastiffs who currently protect our flock. They are large, muscular, and lean, with a coat that clings tightly to their body. We'll slowly integrate…

We're excited to introduce the Wine Atlas Collective! Tablas Creek is joining forces with seven other family-owned and sustainably-minded wineries from across the country to bring even more value to our VINsider Wine Club. Starting July 1st, if you're a member at Tablas Creek (or any of the…

Next up, let's resurface this video of Cesar Perrin giving us the French pronunciation of each of the six white Chateauneuf du Pape varieties we grow at Tablas Creek. We hope you'll save this as a guide so you can impress your friends with it later!

How do you replant young vines in a dry-farmed, head-trained blocks without installing irrigation? Your answer is in the #explainervideo from proprietor Jason Haas. This Counoise block, planted in 2021, took some frost damage in 2022, and we lost about 10% of the vines. Rather than rerun…

With the release of our first-ever varietal Muscardin, it felt like the right time to resurface this video of Cesar Perrin giving us the French pronunciation of each of the eight red Chateauneuf du Pape varieties we grow at Tablas Creek. We hope you'll save this as a guide so you can impress your…

This year, we said goodbye to the bagging machine that helped us enter the premium boxed wine space. But don't worry, this is a good thing! It's a sign that the demand for premium boxed wine has outgrown our capacity to bag and box the wines ourselves. We outsourced the work to @infinitybottling…

This year, we said goodbye to the bagging machine that helped us enter the premium boxed wine space. But don't worry, this is a good thing! It's a sign that the demand for premium boxed wine has outgrown our capacity to bag and box the wines ourselves. We outsourced the work to Infinity Bottling…

Here's a couple Tablas Creek legends hanging out in the vineyard! Longtime Vineyard Manager David Maduena first stepped foot on Tablas Creek's property in 1992 to help set up irrigation on Mount Mourvèdre (the large block of Mourvèdre behind our tasting room). That followed our first planting of…

After last week’s 4.29 inches of rain, our retention basins are officially full! This video shows you the series of three basins, positioned downhill from our compost piles, that we use to capture and store this water on our property. As rainwater flows through our compost piles, it absorbs…

Join us for a scenic drive through our property's nearly 140 acres of woodlands! Vineyard Manager Jordan Lonborg explains how this area is used to bolster our biodiversity and ecosystem as a whole by allowing native wildlife and plants to thrive unbothered, as well as giving our sheep a summer…