Recipe Archive

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Tablas Creek publishes a recipe in each issue of our quarterly newsletter, designed to pair with one or more of our wines. A recipe archive is below. You can sign up for the newsletter online, or view an archive of past newsletters.

Recipes Primary Wine Pairing Secondary Wine Pairing(s)
Chicken with Forty Cloves of Garlic Clos Blanc Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc
Boeuf Provençal Esprit de Beaucastel Côtes de Tablas
Reserve Cuvée
Crispy Crab Risotto Rosé Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc
Grilled Scallops with Grilled Apples Côtes de Tablas Blanc Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc
Fusilli with Creamy Tomato, Mushroom and Sausage Sauce Côtes de Tablas Esprit de Beaucastel
Reserve Cuvée
Spicy Orange Shrimp Ceviche Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc Roussanne
Braised Tuna or Swordfish in Vermentino Vermentino Picpoul
Baked Coquilles St. Jacques Roussanne Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc
Clos Blanc
Braised Short Ribs Côtes de Tablas Esprit de Beaucastel
Ginger/Scallion Chicken Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc Côtes de Tablas Blanc
Pork Chops with Balsamic Cherry Sauce Las Tablas Estates Glenrose Vineyard Syrah
Duck Leg and Farro Risotto Mourvèdre Esprit de Beaucastel
Farmer’s Market Tomato Salad Grenache Blanc Rosé
Spanish Omelette Rosé Roussanne
Chicken Provencale Côtes de Tablas Mourvèdre
Pomegranate Lamb Chops Syrah Esprit de Beaucastel
Grilled Shrimp & Grits Counoise Rosé
Pork Loin with Apricots Esprit de Beaucastel Côtes de Tablas
Cream of Grilled Asparagus Soup Vermentino Côtes de Tablas Blanc
Mussels Mariniere Côtes de Tablas Blanc Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc
Carrot, Leek and Potato Soup Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc Roussanne
Duck Breast with Spaetzle Mourvèdre Esprit de Beaucastel
Andalusian Gazpacho Rosé  
Bearnaise Sauce Panoplie Esprit de Beaucastel
Provençal Fish with Fennel Grenache Blanc Esprit de Beaucastel Blanc
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 »