Piedmont Post: "Tablas Creek -- America's best Rhone producer"
In his weekly column, wine writer Bill McNabb a.k.a Pierre du Mont highlights six new Tablas Creek releases: "In 1989 the Perrin family, owners of the famous Chateauneuf du Pape winery Chateau Beaucastel, and Robert Haas, an American wine importer, bought property on a limestone ridge near Paso Robles with a desire to make Rhone style wines in America. They brought grafts of the vines that made the great Beaucastel and began propagating them in a nursery near the winery. Today Tablas Creek is producing America’s finest Rhone style wines..."