At Tablas Creek, we want to help you celebrate in style. We have several ways in which you can give the gift of Tablas Creek, including a special holiday gift pack (on which we include no-charge shipping), Tablas Creek gift cards, gift VINsider memberships and more.
2012 Holiday Wine Pack (Shipping Included)This limited holiday package includes a bottle each of our two newest signature wines: the 2010 Esprit de Beaucastel and the 2010 Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc in a special decorative gift box. In addition, we're including shipping at no extra charge on the gift packs to any address in any of the 33 states we can ship to. The price? Just $95 per pack, and just $76 per pack for VINsider Wine Club members, shipping included.
These special holiday packs will only be available for pickup or shipment until the end of December. For gift orders, we are happy to enclose a holiday message. Order here »
Interested in a larger number of gift packs, customized with your personal or corporate information? Contact us.
Know that your special someone is a wine lover, but unsure what wines to choose? Give a Tablas Creek Vineyard gift card, available in any denomination. This can be delivered with a holiday message of your choice, and is valid for purchases in person, online, and over the phone. Look for the "Gift Cards" section on the Tablas Creek online order form.
VINsider Wine Club memberships make wonderful gifts. Choose a 6-month or 12-month duration, and your recipient will receive all the benefits of membership, including semi-annual wine shipments, discounts and free tastings at the winery, and free or discounted admission to educational and recreational events. You can order a gift membership online, or contact Nicole Getty at 805.237.1231 x39.
For ideas on other great gifts, we encourage you to come visit our tasting room, where we have a holiday selection of Provençal linens, local artisan pottery, Rebecca Haas jewelry, wine books, glasses, gourmet salts, Tablas Creek olive oil and more. For our tasting room hours, click here.
Join us for the Paso Robles Wine Community's biggest celebration! We'll pour Esprit de Beaucastel at Friday's Reserve Event and a range of new releases at Saturday's Grand Tasting. And all weekend we'll have special wines open at the winery and will be taking tours to visit our herd of sheep, alpacas and donkeys. Sunday 11am to 1:30pm enjoy Chef Jacob Lovejoy's small plates, free with a tasting. Details & more events »
In May, we're featuring our 2011 Cotes de Tablas Blanc at a 10% discount. In 2011, our Viognier crop was cut by 80% due to spring frost, leaving a tiny, intense yield of less than one-half a ton per acre. The resulting wine is rich and tropical, with stone fruits and honey, but at the same time firmly dry, with a very long, saline & mineral finish. Details »
May 15, 2013
Take a look at the seven-line entry of Frank Schoonmaker, America’s foremost wine expert and author in 1964, about terroir. His association, rather than the "somewhereness" the wine exhibits, is more of a taste of dirt, neither elegant nor elevated: "somewhat unpleasant, common, persistent”. My, how things have changed. More »