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Forbes: The Best Wines To Match Thanksgiving’s Rich, Seasonal Flavors

In a new article, Liz Thach, MW provides budget-friendly, mid-range, and splurge suggestions for your Thanksgiving meal in the sparkling, white, rosé, red, and dessert categories. We're proud to have her recommend our Patelin de Tablas as her mid-range red selection! From her review:

made in Paso Robles, this classic red Rhone style wine focusing on Grenache and Syrah organic grapes shows good complexity with raspberry, red plum, herbs, and sweet tobacco notes.

Wine Spectator: 28 Top Budget Wines Under $30 for Thanksgiving 2025

We were excited to see our Patelin de Tablas Blanc recommended by Sommelier Logan Griffin, director of food and beverage at the amazing Blackberry Mountain in Walland, TN. This was a part of the Wine Spectator's recurring Sommelier's Roundtable series, where top Sommeliers recommend wines on a theme. The theme this time: Great Thanksgiving wines under $30!

Patelin de Tablas Blanc Featured in Food and Wine Magazine

We were excited to see our Patelin de Tablas Blanc as a recommendation in Food and Wine Magazine's Thanksgiving edition. In his recommendation he called the wine:

A mélange of Rhône varieties (Grenache Blanc, Viognier, Roussanne, and more) goes into this full bodied Paso Robles white. Invite friends over and open a bottle.

Owen Bargreen: "It is my pleasure to share the brilliant wines of Paso Robles legend Tablas Creek"

We were excited to read Owen Bargreen's new reviews of six of our newest releases, which scored as high as 96 points for the new 2023 Esprit de Tablas. From his introduction:

It is my pleasure to share the brilliant wines of Paso Robles legend Tablas Creek. Founded by Jean-Pierre and François Perrin and Robert Haas on what was formerly an former alfalfa farm they struck gold planting vines on limestone soils in the Adelaida Hills. They saw immense potential to produce wines with stony minerality. From the beginning they focused on Rhône-style wines made organically. The first plantings took place in 1994 and the first Tablas Creek Vineyard wines produced in 1997. The winery has been an incredible success since that time, reaching worldwide acclaim particularly for their Rhone style red and white blends.

Wine Anorak: Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

In a new article for his website Wine Anorak, Jamie Goode recounts a Tablas Creek and Beaucastel tasting that he attended in London, explores the partnership that led to Tablas Creek, and shares notes on the ten wines (five each from Tablas Creek and Beaucastel/Famille Perrin) he tasted. From his introduction:

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the story of a beautiful partnership between the Rhône and Paso Robles in California. It was organized by UK retailer The Wine Society, who work closely with both domaines.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate (10/2025): 24 reviews, including 2023 Esprit Blanc (95+), 2023 Esprit (96), and 2023 Panoplie (97)

In his new Paso Robles report focusing on the 2023 and 2024 vintages for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, reviewer Matthew Luczy includes reviews of 24 new Tablas Creek wines. From his introduction:

The extended hang time and cool temperatures of 2023 played beautifully into the hands of the team at Tablas Creek, emphasizing the understated and balanced style they have perennially produced.

His reviews of the wines was highlighted by our 2023 Panoplie at 97 points, tied for the highest rating of any wine from his Paso Robles report. Other wines included new releases like the 2023 Esprit de Tablas (96 points), 2023 Esprit de Tablas Blanc (95+ points), and 2023 En Gobelet (95 points); as well as wines yet to be released, like the debut vintage of 2024 Panoplie Blanc (94-96 points) and the 2023 Le Complice (94+ points). His article on the region [subscription required] is available now.

2023 Esprit de Tablas: James Suckling's #43 Wine of 2025

In his annual "Top 100 Wines of the USA 2025" report, James Suckling included the Esprit de Tablas 2023 at #43:

Savory, well-spiced and meaty, showing plums and warm figs, sanguine flavors and black licorice. Outstanding posture and length with harmony between the scorched earth and blackberries, cherry pits and cured olives. Best after 2028 and for the next several decades. Score 96.

Decanter: How Tablas Creek went on a quest to bottle Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s hidden grapes

In a feature article, Rhone correspondent Matt Walls celebrates Tablas Creek's completion of the Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape collection of grapes. He tracks the vineyard's heritage and history, and finished by offering tasting notes on recent vintages of all 16 of Tablas Creek's different Rhone varietal bottlings. From his conclusion:

In red, the Grenache and Syrah really show their natural class. Cinsault and Counoise are both seeing something of a reappraisal in the Rhône currently, and these bottlings from Tablas Creek prove that they can do brilliantly elsewhere too.

The Muscardin and Terret Noir shared certain similarities: they are more light and smashable, more about flowers and herbs than generous fruits.

The whites if anything were even more consistent. Marsanne, Roussanne, Clairette and Grenache Blanc are responsible for some of the best whites in the Rhône Valley, and they didn’t disappoint here either.

What surprised me was how well some of the lesser-known varieties performed – the Bourboulenc, Piquepoul and Picardan were also excellent. All three have relatively high acidity, and Haas rightly states that in a warming climate, ‘acid is more valuable than it’s ever been’.