Tablas Creek Vineyard - Terret Noir - Adelaida District, Paso Robles, CA - 2023

Notes from the Winery/Importer

The Tablas Creek Vineyard 2023 Terret Noir is our eighth varietal bottling of this rarely-seen Chateauneuf-du-Pape grape, propagated from budwood cuttings from the Château de Beaucastel estate. While we have also begun using Terret Noir in our red blends, it is a fascinating grape on its own, unlike anything else from the Rhone. As a varietal bottling, we feel it expresses well what our 1904-edition French ampelography calls its "qualities of lightness, freshness, and bouquet".

Tasting Notes
A peppery nose of blood orange, pink peppercorn, and sweetgrass. The palate is tannic and pithy with a bay-like herbiness, black raspberry fruit, and a finish of watermelon rind and sagebrush. Fascinating and fun.

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.