2019 Marsanne
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The 2019 Tablas Creek Vineyard Marsanne is Tablas Creek’s seventh varietal bottling of Marsanne, best known from the northern Rhone's Hermitage appellation, where it is renowned for making some of the world's most ageworthy white wines. We picked our Marsanne in mid-September with precise, expressive flavors, and selected the varietal bottling from a single lot with unusually good acids.
Tasting Notes
A lovely, elegant nose, quintessentially Marsanne, of melon, sweet straw, lemongrass, and citrus blossom. On the palate, sweet tropical lychee and kiwi fruit, with white flowers and citrus blossom honey notes, refreshing acidity, and a lingering, lightly tropical finish. Appealing now, but it should evolve in an interesting way for a decade at least.
Technical Details
Appellation
- Adelaida District Paso Robles
Technical Notes
- 12.7% Alcohol by Volume
- 340 Cases Produced
Blend
- 100% Marsanne
Recipes & Pairings
Recipe Suggestions
Food Pairings
- Mussels Marinière
- Green salads with avocado and citrus dressing
- Scallops
- Light-fleshed fish (halibut, sole) with tropical salsa
Production Notes
The grapes for our 2019 Marsanne were grown on Regenerative Organic Certified™ and biodynamic estate vineyard.
The 2019 vintage began with ample rainfall the preceding winter. The wet soils delayed budbreak to a little after normal, and a cool first half of the summer delayed flowering and the ripening of our earlier varieties. Beginning the second week of July, the weather turned warm but never so warm to engage the vines' self-defense mechanism of shutting down, accelerating ripening of our later varieties and producing intense flavors. The resulting compressed harvest was completed under ideal conditions and the vintage shows both concentration and freshness, with bright acids framing ample fruit.
The Marsanne was whole cluster pressed, and fermented in a mix of stainless steel (to emphasize its clean crisp flavors and minerality) and foudre (to build body and richness). Only native yeasts were used. The 2019 vintage, for whatever reason, produced our most textured, Hermitage-like Marsanne ever, another indication that it was a tremendous vintage overall. We fermented it in the new 600-gallon foudres for a balance of richness and a little sweet oak, then chose the lots for our varietal bottling, returned it to large wood for a few more months, and bottled it in June 2020.