2024 Marsanne
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The 2024 Tablas Creek Vineyard Marsanne is Tablas Creek’s twelfth 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 age-worthy white wines.
Tasting Notes
A pretty nose of cantaloupe and citrus blossom, sweetgrass, chalk, and brioche. The palate is appealingly gentle, featuring notes of yellow plum, wet rock, fresh apricot, and sweet spice, all set over a medium-bodied frame with gentle acids that provide freshness and leave a lingering flavor of pear tart. Lovely.
Technical Details
Appellation
- Adelaida District Paso Robles
Technical Notes
- 12.5% Alcohol by Volume
- 285 Cases Produced
Blend
- 100% Marsanne
Certifications
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 2024 Marsanne were grown on our Regenerative Organic Certified™ and biodynamic estate vineyard.
The 2024 vintage began with a 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.
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. We fermented it in 600-gallon foudres for a balance of richness and brightness, then chose the lots for our varietal bottling, returned it to large wood for a few more months, and bottled it in June 2025.