News & Press

Washington Post: Lighter wine bottles don’t affect quality and are better for the planet

In a great new perspective column by Washington Post Wine Writer Dave McIntyre, Tablas Creek gets highlighted for our work moving to (and educating consumers on) lightweight bottles. From his introduction:

Those behemoths weighing as much as a kilogram when empty are not yet extinct, but they may be close to endangered. More and more wineries are shifting to bottles under 600 grams, even closer to 500 and as low as 380 grams. This is great news, and not just for our backs and our wrists. It’s good for our planet.

Bravo, Dave!

$10 Flat-Rate Shipping for April

We know that shipping wine can add up, and we want to make it easier for you to enjoy our wines. So as a club member benefit, any order members place from now through the end of April, from a bottle of wine to two cases or more, will be shipped anywhere we ship for just $10/order!* The more you order, the more you save, so use the opportunity to send wine to yourself, your family or your friends.

The discounted shipping is applied automatically on our online order form.

*$10 shipping not available on preconfigured wine club shipments.

Tablas Creek awarded 2023 California Green Medal for sustainability

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance awarded Tablas Creek the Environment Award, one of four 2023 Green Medals: the California wine community's highest honor for sustainability.

The Environment Award is given to the vineyard or winery that best demonstrates Environmental Stewardship through maximized environmental benefits from implementing sustainable practices.

For details on our sustainability efforts, as well as the video produced by the CSWA for our award, see the blog Jason wrote celebrating the announcement.

Jason Haas on KCBX's "Issues and Ideas"

We're proud to have a conversation our Jason Haas had with KCBX FM's Benjamin Purper -- focused primarily on our work on dry-farming and regenerative viticulture -- be turned into the final piece of his five-part series "In the Vines" examining the long-term prospects for the Paso Robles wine community. We really do believe it is how wine sets itself up for a sustainable future! If you missed it on this week's "Issues and Ideas" broadcast, you can listen below.

Jancis Robinson: A step beyond organic viticulture, producers are reaping the rewards of regeneration

In her weekly column in Financial Times, Jancis Robinson dives into the promise of regenerative farming. In it, she highlights the Regenerative Organic Certified program, Tablas Creek's role as an early adopter, and recommends our 2017 Esprit de Tablas as one of her regeneratively farmed top picks! From the piece:

The American ROC (Regenerative Organic Certification™), launched in 2020, is more demanding because it’s even more wide-ranging and requires a commitment to organic farming. It also requires integrating animal welfare and livestock operations, where appropriate (it can be applied to a wide variety of products — not just wine) as well as the social aspects of sustainability (looking after the workforce and so on).

The organisation’s motto is “Farm like the world depends on it”. So far the only wine operations to be fully ROC-certified are Domaine Bousquet in Argentina, Troon in Oregon and Fetzer, Neal, Sominer, Tablas Creek and Truett-Hurst in California.

San Francisco Chronicle: 7 of the best wineries in California’s most experimental wine region: Paso Robles

In a new article focusing on Paso Robles, the San Francisco Chronicle's Jess Lander hones in on what makes our region so appealing: experimentation is baked into its DNA. From her intro:

Napa Valley is for Cabernet’s biggest collectors. Sonoma is for lovers of Pinot and Chardonnay. But Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County) is where wine drinkers go to discover something new.

In her article, she highlights seven wineries (including Tablas Creek) whose work epitomizes the region.

Wall Street Journal: To Find the Best Wine Values, Think Like Warren Buffett

Author Lettie Teague offers a nice mention of our Patelin de Tablas Blanc in a story used to identify strategies for finding good value wine.

My newest favorite bargain, just a few dollars over that $20 ceiling, is a lush Rhône-style white from Paso Robles, Calif.: the 2021 Tablas Creek Vineyard Patelin de Tablas, $22 in my local wine sho

KQED: Central Coast Winery Looks For Solutions To Water Concerns, High Cost Of Living

*Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts*

In a new episode of The California Report, Proprietor Jason Haas discusses the water supply in Paso Robles and the water conservation practices Tablas Creek has implemented to maintain the quality of fruit at the vineyard and the long-term viability of the wine community.