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1998 Rouge
Rouge: The Beginning
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 Beaucastel: Mourvèdre, Grenache, 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 Rouge a forceful statement of its outstanding terroir.
Production Notes
Tablas Rouge is estate bottled from vines grown on the 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.
Tasting Notes
The 1998 Tablas Creek Vineyard Rouge is an outstandingly successful wine in the unusually cool 1998 vintage. Harvest began in mid-October and finished in mid-November. Fortunately, warm and dry late Autumn weather allowed the grapes to mature to produce a deeply colored, richly fruity and elegant wine. Grapes from our imported French vines contribute intriguing complexity in addition to layers of bright fruit. The wine has a beautiful round silhouette and an inviting softness, finishing with excellent length.
Updated tasting notes from a December 2010 vertical tasting can be found on the Tablas Creek blog.
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Blend
- 44% Mourvèdre
- 24% Grenache Noir
- 21% Syrah
- 11% Counoise
Technical Notes
- 13.8% alcohol by volume
- 2
- 230 cases produced
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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: Tablas Creek is a finalist for Best Winery Blog
May 20, 2013
We are proud to have been named a finalist for "Best Winery Blog" at the 2013 Wine Blog Awards. This is the sixth consecutive year we've been finalists, and we've taken home the trophy twice, in 2008 and 2011. We'd love to make the 2013 awards a three-peat, and look back at nine favorite posts of the last year. More »