Tablas Creek Vineyard - Counoise - Adelaida District, Paso Robles, CA - 2023

Notes from the Winery/Importer

The 2023 Tablas Creek Vineyard Counoise is Tablas Creek’s fourteenth varietal bottling of this traditional blending grape from the Southern Rhone. The Counoise grape has an unusual combination of vibrant blue and purple fruit (blueberries and cranberries), sweet spice (nutmeg and cinnamon), light-to-medium body, bright acidity, ruby color, and soft tannin.

Tasting Notes
A vibrant garnet color, a shade darker than recent years. The nose shows brambly raspberry fruit with additional notes of rose hips, red licorice, and cola. The mouth is classic, with flavors of cranberry, cocoa powder, and wild strawberry, complete with fruit, leaves, and flowers. The long finish showcases a little burst of dusty tannins and leaves impressions of red fruit and flinty minerality. Enjoy it lightly chilled any time in the next four to six years.

Notes on the Producer

Tablas Creek is the realization of the combined efforts of two of the international wine community’s leading families: the Perrin family, proprietors of Château de Beaucastel, and the Haas family of Vineyard Brands.

Tablas Creek is the world's first Regenerative Organic Certified Vineyard and Winery.