Tablas on Tour

Wine Festivals and Events Around the Country

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Winemaker Dinner at The Hobbit

May 23rd, 2013 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Orange, CA
714.997.1972
www.hobbitrestaurant.com

Afternoon of Epicurean Delights

Jun 2nd, 2013 - 11:30 am to 3:00 pm

Shell Beach, CA
805.544.4355
www.capslo.org

Ojai Wine Festival

Jun 9th, 2013 - 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Ojai, CA
800.648.4881
www.ojaiwinefestival.com

Rhone Rangers Southern California Tasting

Jun 23rd, 2013 - 11:00 am to 6:00 pm

Vibiana
Los Angeles, CA
www.rhonerangers.org
800.467.0163

Santa Barbara Wine Festival

Jun 29th, 2013 - 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Santa Barbara, CA
805.682.4711 x 112
www.sbnature.org

Winemaker Dinner at Prospect

Jul 9th, 2013

San Francisco, CA
415.247.7770
www.prospectsf.com

Family Winemakers of California San Francisco Tasting

Aug 17th-18th, 2013

Saturday, August 17th: Trade and Consumers
Sunday, August 18th: Trade only
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA
www.familywinemakers.org

Green Feast

Sep 7th, 2013 - 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Green Feast
San Juan Capistrano, CA
www.theecologycenter.org
949-443-4223

Rhone Rangers Chicago Tasting

Sep 11th-12th, 2013

City Winery Chicago
Chicago, IL
312.733.9463
www.rhonerangers.org

Upcoming Events

Celebrate Paso Robles Wine Festival with Tablas Creek

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 »


Tablas Creek News

Featured Wine for May: 2011 Cotes de Tablas Blanc

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 »


On the Blog: When Terroir Was a Dirty Word

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 »