VINsider News & Updates

You can now download Chef Jeff's recipes and prepare them in advance of our virtual pickup party on October 30th. Download the recipes here:

White pairing: Roasted Fennel Vichyssoise with Ricotta Toast, Piment d’Espelette, Watercress

Red pairing: Braised Short Rib & Baking Spice with Bulgur Wheat Pilaf, Fresh Pomegranate, Mint Salad

We are pleased to invite you to participate in our barrel tasting and sale en primeur of Tablas Creek Vineyard's remarkable wines from the outstanding 2025 vintage: Esprit de Tablas, Panoplie, and just the second vintage of our new Panoplie Blanc.

Offering wine en primeur is a time-honored French tradition most often associated with first-growth Bordeaux estates. In outstanding vintages, valued customers are offered the opportunity to secure a limited quantity of sought-after wines at a special price in advance of bottling. The wines will be available for delivery or pickup in fall 2027.

To RSVP to the En Primeur Tasting on December 5th: Proprietor Jason Haas and Director of Winemaking Chelsea Franchi will host a live En Primeur tasting on December 5th. Join us for a discussion of the 2025 vintage and wines. RSVP by mail, phone, or online using this link.

To Order: Contact wineclub@tablascreek.com or call 805.237.1231 x236

To Taste: You may taste the wine on your own schedule by visiting our tasting room between November 2nd and December 7th, and we will pour you the new Esprit, Panoplie, and Panoplie Blanc. Book your tasting.

The 2025 Vintage:

The 2025 vintage began dry but finished wet, with two-thirds of the winter's precipitation coming in February and March. That late rain delayed budbreak and allowed us to dodge any spring frosts. The summer was warm but rarely hot, with the fewest 100° days in our history. Harvest began at a normal time frame but cool temperatures in September and October slowed down harvest. We navigated two early rain events without damage and finished an extended but unhurried harvest in early November. The exceptionally long hangtime and gradual ripening combined to produce fruit with deep colors, remarkable intensity, and noteworthy vibrancy. We believe 2025 has all the hallmarks of a blockbuster year.

The Wines:

• 2025 Esprit de Tablas: Esprit de Tablas is Tablas Creek's signature red blend, always led by the dark red fruit, earth, spice and mid-palate richness of Mourvèdre (44%), along with additions of Grenache (24%), Syrah (21%), Counoise (5%), Vaccarèse (4%), and Cinsaut (2%). In this cool, slow-ripening vintage, all the varieties thrived, but Mourvèdre was the clear superstar. At our blending trials, we chose our highest percentage of Mourvèdre for Esprit since 2015, and the resulting wine is deeply fruited but with plenty of warm spice and earth elements like black tea and new leather to balance that fruit. It strikes us as an Esprit that will
  be appealing upon release but also rewarding to cellar. Enjoy over the next two decades or more.
• 2025 Panoplie: Panoplie is our elite Mourvèdre-based cuvée, made in the model of Château de Beaucastel's Hommage à Jacques Perrin and selected from the top 3% of lots that come into the cellar each vintage. Mourvèdre has a remarkable ability to age, adding meaty depth to dark medium fruit, without the hardness many ageworthy red grapes have in their youth. In the 2025 vintage, which Jason called “a magical year for Mourvèdre”, we chose four exceptional lots of Mourvèdre to represent 66% of the wine. We then added two powerful lots of Syrah (18%) and two gorgeous lots of Grenache (16%). The resulting Panoplie allows the purity of the Mourvèdre fruit to shine. It should be great whether you choose to lay it down or enjoy it in its youth. Drink over the next 25-30 years.
• 2025 Panoplie Blanc: Like Panoplie, Panoplie Blanc is made from the top 3% of the year’s lots, but on the white side, and just as Panoplie leans even heavier into Mourvèdre than Esprit, so does Panoplie Blanc embrace the richness, textural weight, and longevity of Roussanne. During our blending trials, in which Jason commented that all the grapes tasted like themselves, but more so, we identified three lots of Roussanne (making up 74% of the blend), two of Grenache Blanc (20%) and one of Picpoul Blanc (6%) with the requisite character and intensity. The resulting wine is powerful but lovely, very Roussanne in character, with flavors
  of crème brûlée and baked pear, a nice moderate dose of sweet oak, and appealing pithiness at the end. Enjoy it now for its luscious flavors of honey and pear, or age it up to two decades for a more savory profile of caramel and roasted nuts

We are pleased to announce the Fall 2026 VINsider Club shipments, highlighted by the newest releases of our flagship Esprit de Tablas, made from the top 15% of the vintage's lots, and the first-ever release of Panoplie Blanc our elite, limited white wine made from the top 5% of lots. But there's a lot more to this fall's shipment.

The Classic (Mixed) Shipment includes two varietal wines, the newest white wine release in the Lignée de Tablas line, a small-production blend: our En Gobelet, which highlights the benefits of dry-farmed wines, and both a current and library release of the flagship Esprit de Tablas:

• 1 bottle of Esprit de Tablas 2024 (Our newly-released flagship red blend, based on Mourvèdre, from the best lots of the powerful 2024 vintage; 95-97 Vinous)
• 1 bottle of Esprit de Tablas 2018 (A library vintage of our flagship red blend, from the balanced 2018 vintage; 96 and #32 wine of 2020 Owen Bargreen, 96 Vinous, 94 Wine Enthusiast, 97 BevX)
• 1 bottle of En Gobelet 2024 (Our blend sourced exclusively from dry-farmed, head-trained vineyard blocks; 95-97 Vinous)
• 1 bottle of Grenache 2024 (Our varietal bottling of the Rhône's most planted red grape, vibrant and juicy; 95 Owen Bargreen, 93 Vinous)
• 1 bottle of Grenache Blanc 2025 (Our varietal bottling of this textured, vibrant white grape that we introduced to California)
• 1 bottle of Lignée de Tablas Fenaughty Blanc 2025 (Our second-ever white release from the Fenaughty Vineyard in the Sierra Foothills, led by Marsanne with elegance and spice)

The Red Wine Selection Shipment, in addition to the four red wines in the Classic Shipment, includes a varietal bottling of the bright and spicy Terret Noir, an obscure variety making its first club shipment appearance, and our Full Circle Pinot Noir, sourced from the Haas Vineyard:

• 1 bottle of Esprit de Tablas 2024 (Our newly-released flagship red blend, based on Mourvèdre, from the best lots of the powerful 2024 vintage; 95-97 Vinous)
• 1 bottle of Esprit de Tablas 2018 (A library vintage of our flagship red blend, from the balanced 2018 vintage; 96 and #32 wine of 2020 Owen Bargreen, 96 Vinous, 94 Wine Enthusiast, 97 BevX)
• 1 bottle of En Gobelet 2024 (Our blend sourced exclusively from dry-farmed, head-trained vineyard blocks; 95-97 Vinous)
• 1 bottle of Grenache 2024 (Our small-production varietal bottling of the Rhône's most planted red grape, vibrant and juicy; 95 Owen Bargreen, 93 Vinous)
• 1 bottle of Terret Noir 2024 (Our varietal bottling of one of the Rhône's most obscure varieties, known for qualities of lightness, freshness, and bouquet)
• 1 bottle of Full Circle 2024 (The tiny-production 100% Pinot Noir grown at founder Robert Haas's home in the cool Templeton Gap)

The White Wine Selection Shipment, highlighted by a bottle of our first-ever Panoplie Blanc, made from the top 5% of white wine lots from the vintage, also includes the two white wines in the classic shipment, and three small-production single-varietal white wines:

• 1 bottle of Panoplie Blanc 2024 (Our newly-released elite white blend, based on the most powerful lots of Roussanne, from the best lots of 2024; 96 Owen Bargreen, 96 Vinous, 94-96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate)
• 1 bottle of Côtes de Tablas Blanc 2025 (Our estate blend based on Viognier, from an outstanding Viognier vintage)
• 1 bottle of Grenache Blanc 2025 (Our varietal bottling of this textured, vibrant white grape that we introduced to California)
• 1 bottle of Lignée de Tablas Fenaughty Blanc 2025 (Our second-ever white release from the Fenaughty Vineyard in the Sierra Foothills, led by Marsanne with elegance and spice)
• 1 bottle of Viognier 2025 (Our varietal bottling of the Rhône's most famous white grape, both luscious and vibrant)
• 1 bottle of Marsanne 2025 (Our varietal bottling of Hermitage's noble white grape, lovely texture with a long, clean finish)

To provide a new shipping address (an adult signature is required) or a new credit card you can email your changes to wineclub@tablascreek.com, call us at 805.237.1231 x236, or update your VINsider information online.

The shipments' costs (classic: $284; red wine: $296; white wine: $260, each plus applicable shipping and taxes) reflect as always a 20% VINsider member savings off the retail prices of the wines in the shipment. Shipments ship out beginning the week of October 13th unless you have made other arrangements with us. Will-call shipments will be available on September 18th for pickup at the winery.

We have an array of ways for you to experience the wines in your fall shipment!

1. In-person Pickup Party Sunday, October 18th. We’re looking forward to hosting an in-person wine club pickup party on Sunday, October 18th. Make your reservation for one of our three time slots (11am, 1pm or 3pm) and join us for an update on what’s been going on, a tasting of the wines in the shipment, and pairings prepared by Chef Jeffery Scott. You can now reserve your space online or give us a call at 805.237.1231 x236 or email wineclub@tablascreek.com with questions or for help.
2. Live Virtual Shipment Tasting Friday, October 30th. Join Proprietor Jason Haas and Director of Winemaking Chelsea Franchi on Facebook Live and YouTube Live for a discussion and virtual tasting of the wines in the shipment. Ask them the questions you've been storing up; they love to hear from members! Chef Jeff Scott will join them to present two food pairings, one each for the reds and the whites. Sample kits of the Classic Shipment will once again be available from Master the World. Details coming soon.
3. Shipment Tasting Flights. Beginning with the start of the customization period on Tuesday, September 8th and continuing through early October, club members who visit the tasting room or tasting patio can choose the wines in their fall shipment as their tasting flight. Please note that while we encourage you to make tasting appointments in advance, we always try to hold spots for wine club members. If reservations for your desired day are full, send us an email. Reserve online here or email visit@tablascreek.com.

We’re excited to introduce something new that makes your Tablas Creek VINsider membership even more valuable: The Wine Atlas Collective.

We’ve joined forces with seven other family-owned, sustainably-minded wineries from around the country to bring added benefits to all our club members. Starting July 1st, if you’re a VINsider, you’re a member everywhere in the Collective.

The Wine Atlas Collective is a group of eight independently operated, sustainably-minded wineries. As a member at any one of them, you’ll be welcomed as a member at them all.

Together, these wineries represent some of the best wine regions in the country and offer a uniquely diverse range of styles, with over 40 grape varieties represented. The wineries are:

• Blenheim Vineyards – Virginia
• Brooks – Oregon
• Frog’s Leap – Napa Valley
• L’Ecole № 41 – Washington
• Red Tail Ridge – New York (Finger Lakes)
• Ridge Vineyards – Sonoma & Santa Cruz Mountains
• William Chris Vineyards – Texas Hill Country
• Tablas Creek Vineyard – Paso Robles

Your VINsider membership now unlocks exclusive perks when you visit any of the other wineries in the Collective, including:

• Complimentary or discounted tastings
• Access to member-only wines
• Special hospitality when you visit
• Additional benefits coming later this year

Please note that these reciprocal benefits currently apply only to in-person visits.

Check out the Wine Atlas Collective website here.