2024 Counoise
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The 2024 Tablas Creek Vineyard Counoise is Tablas Creek’s fifteenth varietal bottling of this traditional blending grape from the Southern Rhône. The Counoise grape has an unusual combination of vibrant blue and purple fruit (blueberries and cranberries), sweet spice (nutmeg and cinnamon), light-to-medium body, bright acidity, ruby color, and soft tannin.
Tasting Notes
A brambly nose with notes of dark berries, coffee, rose petals, and spice. On the palate, serious for Counoise, with flavors of salted watermelon and red plum, bright acids, and a spicy chaparral note on the finish.
Technical Details
Appellation
- Adelaida District Paso Robles
Technical Notes
- 13.0% Alcohol by Volume
- 445 Cases Produced
Blend
- 100% Counoise
Certifications
Recipes & Pairings
Recipe Suggestions
Food Pairings
- Roast pork loin
- Veal
- Roasted Chicken
- Spicy sausages
Production Notes
We typically use most of this Counoise in our Esprit de Tablas and Côtes de Tablas wines. However, in years when Counoise spends an unusually long time on the vine, it achieves enough concentration to balance its exuberant fruit, spice, and acidity, and we bottle it on its own.
Our Counoise grapes were grown on our biodynamic and Regenerative Organic Certified® estate vineyard.
The 2024 vintage began with our second consecutive wet winter, giving the vines good reserves for the growing season. After a normal budbreak and a cool first half of the summer, those reserves were tested by our warmest-ever July and above-average temperatures through October. That led to a compressed harvest that was largely done by the second week of October and yields roughly 20% below our long-term averages. The low yields and warm year combined to produce fruit with intense flavors and noteworthy vibrancy.
We tend to ferment our Counoise lots in stainless steel to protect it from oxidation, and to age it in neutral oak to avoid weighing down its bright fruit flavors. The lots that we chose for our varietal Counoise were selected and blended in June 2025 and bottled in February 2026, under screwcap to preserve its freshness.