Bringing the Rhône to Paso Robles
Tablas Creek is a pioneer of California's Rhone movement. Founded in 1989, it is the culmination of a friendship between two of the international wine community's leading families dating back to 1967: the Perrin family of Château de Beaucastel and the Haas family of Vineyard Brands.
After a four-year search, the partners chose Paso Robles, California, for its many similarities to the southern Rhone, and began the lengthy process of importing vine cuttings, building a grapevine nursery, and creating an estate vineyard from scratch.
The Tablas Creek Legacy
The eighteen grape varieties that Tablas Creek imported from Beaucastel included nine new to California viticulture. Cuttings from those vines were made available to the American grapegrowing community, helping kick off the Rhone Rangers movement, and today there are millions of Tablas Creek clones in the ground everywhere Rhone varieties thrive, from California's Central Coast to Sonoma, Santa Barbara, the Sierra Foothills, Walla Walla, Virginia, and Texas.
Tablas Creek continues to innovate in the vineyard, winery, and our business. We have been organic since our inception (certified since 2003), Biodynamic since 2010 (certified in 2017) and in 2020 became the world's first Regenerative Organic Certified® (ROC™) vineyard. As a part of being the pilot winery in the ROC program we agreed to share our learnings and have welcomed hundreds of vineyards and wineries to Tablas Creek to share best practices and our newest discoveries. We are a two-time winner of the California Green Medal for sustainability and a 2022 Wine Star Award nominee for Innovator of the Year.
Today, Tablas Creek welcomes some 30,000 visitors of all backgrounds to join us for tours and seated tastings. Whether you’re new to Rhône wines or a longtime enthusiast, we look forward to hosting you and helping you discover your new favorite Rhone wine.
The world's first Regenerative Organic Certified® vineyard
We are proud to be the first Regenerative Organic Certified® vineyard in the world. Tablas Creek's 135 acres of estate vineyard is largely dry-farmed, limiting yields and emphasizing character of place. In addition, we have been organic since our inception, certified in 2003, and Biodynamic since 2010, certified in 2017. Our practices - including a mobile herd of sheep, alpacas and guard donkeys - control weeds, fertilize, and build healthy soils, capturing carbon and retaining the winter moisture.
Our winemaking, including native yeast, small-lot fermentation and the use of large, neutral French oak barrels, preserves our wines' connection to the land and vintage which produced them.
Our Team
What makes any business special? Its people.
Meet the people who are Tablas Creek Vineyard.
Our Wines
We balance the traditions we inherit from the Rhone Valley with what we have learned from three decades in Paso Robles. The 20-25 wines we make each year include:
Esprit de Tablas red (based on Mourvèdre) and white (based on Roussanne) are the winery’s flagship Rhône-style blends: rich, balanced and ageworthy.
Côtes de Tablas red (based on Grenache) and white (based on Viognier) wines are blended to be lushly fruity and appealing.
Patelin de Tablas red, white and rosé wines incorporate fruit from top Paso Robles Rhône-style vineyards and offer classic Rhone flavors at exceptional value.
Limited Release and Varietal Wines, unique to each vintage, include many wines available only winery-direct or reserved for our wine club members.
Tablas Creek wines have appeared in eight year-end “Top 100” lists from Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, and Wine & Spirits Magazine.
