Tablas Creek Vineyard - 'Espirit de Tablas' - Rhône Blend - Paso Robles, CA - 2022

Notes from the Winery/Importer

The Tablas Creek Vineyard 2022 Esprit de Tablas Blanc is our flagship white blend, chosen from the top lots of six white Rhone varieties propagated from budwood cuttings from the Château de Beaucastel estate. Roussanne provides the core richness, minerality, and flavors of honey and spice, while Grenache Blanc adds green apple and anise flavors, lush mouthfeel and bright acids. Picpoul Blanc adds pineapple brightness and saline minerality, Bourboulenc provides limestoney, citrusy lift, Clairette Blanche brings clean fruitiness and chalky minerality, and Picardan finishes with a little burst of acid, further emphasizing the mineral notes.

• Accolades
• 2022 Esprit de Tablas Blanc: #12 Wine of 2024: Owen Bargreen (Dec. 2024)
• 95 points; "full-bodied with bright acidity and complex notes of peaches, nectarines, beeswax and lanolin": JamesSuckling.com (Sep. 2024)
• 94 points; "a beautiful balance of power, nuance and lift, with a mellow, soft texture lined with vibrant acidity": Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Sep. 2024)
• 94 points; "impossible to ignore. Vividly fresh and pure": Vinous (July 2024)
• 94 points & Editors' Choice; "This is a lesson in white Rhône blends": Wine Enthusiast (Jul. 2024)
• 96 points; "the finest white wine that I tasted in my Paso Robles Report ... stunning": Owen Bargreen (Apr. 2024)
• 94 points; "a wine of great aromatic complexity, with beeswax, yellow flower pollen, almond skin and nutmeg. The palate balances the weighty elements of these white Rhône varieties with remarkable brightness and saline minerality, creating textural perfection": Decanter (Apr. 2024)
• 96 points; "a ripe orchard fruits-driven core with flavors of white peach, sudachi, wet river stones, and kiwi ... long and lingering": BevX (Apr. 2024)
• 93-95 points; "vibrant and mouth coating" Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Dec. 2023)
  Tasting Notes
  A powerful nose of lanolin and honeycomb, lemongrass and orange blossom, like the world's most luxurious antique furniture polish. The palate is lively, rich but still light on its feet, with flavors of vanilla custard, fresh apricot, citrus pith, marmalade, and green herbs. The finish leaves lingering notes of grilled pineapple and green herbs. Drink now to enjoy its freshness or let it age for up to two decades for deeper flavors of caramel and roasted nuts.

  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.