2025 Grenache Blanc
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The 2025 Tablas Creek Vineyard Grenache Blanc is Tablas Creek’s twenty-fourth bottling of its 100% Grenache Blanc. The Grenache Blanc grape, a widely planted but rarely acknowledged southern Rhone varietal, is the white variant of the better-known Grenache Noir. It has been a remarkable success in California since we introduced it in 1997, producing wines with full body, good acidity, and flavors of citrus, anise, and green apple.
Tasting Notes
A pretty nose of preserved lemon, wintergreen, and crushed rock. On the palate, broad and expansive but still bright, with flavors of lemon meringue, fresh bay leaf, and salted honeydew. The finish is long and pithy with lingering notes of sea spray and roasted almond.
Technical Details
Appellation
- Adelaida District Paso Robles
Technical Notes
- 13.5% Alcohol by Volume
- 960 Cases Produced
Blend
- 100% Grenache Blanc
Certifications
Recipes & Pairings
Recipe Suggestions
Food Pairings
- Spicy Asian preparations of fish and chicken
- Shrimp Scampi
- Sushi
- Mussels Mariniere
Production Notes
We use most of our Grenache Blanc in our Esprit de Tablas Blanc and Cotes de Tablas Blanc each year. However, we have been so pleased by the flavors and intensity of the Grenache Blanc that we try to reserve a small quantity of Grenache Blanc for a single-varietal bottling most vintages.
Our Grenache Blanc grapes were grown on our biodynamic and Regenerative Organic Certified® estate vineyard.
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.
For the varietal Grenache Blanc, we chose mostly lots fermented in stainless steel (for energy), with a smaller addition from foudre (for roundness). The lots were blended in May 2026 and bottled under screwcap the next month.