After years of searching, Robert Haas (Vineyard Brands) and the Perrins (Château de Beaucastel) found the
perfect site for
their new estate in the steep and stony hills west of Paso Robles. Tablas Creek Vineyard was conceived with the same vine
selections as the Beaucastel Domaine: Mourvèdre, Grenache Noir, Syrah and Counoise. Organic farming techniques in the
vineyard allow our grapes to be the purest expression of the warm climate and the calcareous clay soils in which they grow.
Fermenting with native yeasts and selective blending of the varietals, as practiced by Beaucastel for 150 years, allow the
wine
to best express its rich and elegant esthetic qualities. We have left no stone unturned in our effort to make Tablas Creek
Vineyard Reserve Cuvée a forceful statement of its outstanding terroir.
TECHNICAL NOTES
40% Mourvèdre
27% Grenache Noir
23% Syrah
10% Counoise
14.7% alcohol by volume
2208 cases produced
The 1999 Tablas Creek Vineyard Reserve Cuvée is a powerful expression of the outstanding 1999
vintage. The crop was small and concentrated. The harvest took place starting in September under
ideal conditions. Grapes from our imported French vines produced a deeply colored, richly intense, highly extracted wine, redolent of ripe
cherries, raspberries, currants and blueberries held together in a velvety tannic structure. Tablas
Creek Vineyard Reserve Cuvée is estate bottled from vines grown on the 120-acre Tablas Creek Vineyard
estate, cultivated without the use of herbicides or systemic pesticides. Only hand hoeing, cover
crops, mulch, scorching and mowing are used for weed control. Natural predatory insects,
Bordeaux Mixture and sulfur control pests and fungi.
