2014 Tablas Creek Esprit De Tablas Rouge
Paso Robles, USA
A Mourvedre dominant blend, with all the Paso Robles estate fruit grown from the CNdP cuttings of Chateau de Beaucastel.
$125.00
Out of Stock
"I wrote pure multiple times on this one: a nose like pure wild strawberry and the "mouth too, with crystalline purity".
Neil Collins (Winemaker Tablas Creek) 2019
About This Wine
The Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas is a blend of four estate-grown varietals, propagated from budwood cuttings from the Château de Beaucastel estate.
The wine is based on the dark red fruit, earth, spice and mid-palate richness of Mourvèdre, with additions of Grenache for forward fruit, approachability and lushness, Syrah for mineral, aromatics, and back-palate tannins, and Counoise for brambly spice and acidity.
It’s fresh and lively, the tannins firm yet light, dancing on the tongue with flower-petal spice. It wouldn’t be a stretch to connect this lightness of tone directly to the pale, fragile limestone bedrock underneath the vines that allowed them to access moisture through California’s long dry spell.
About Tablas Creek
Tablas Creek is the realisation of the combined efforts of two of the international wine community’s leading families: the Perrin family, proprietors of Chateau de Beaucastel (CNdP), and the Haas family of Vineyard Brands. Equally owned and run by the two families, the partnership begun in 1987 remains today as ever, even as the next generation of Haases and Perrins have stepped into leadership roles over recent decades.
Located in the hills north and west of Paso Robles, their viticulture practices emphasize quality through dry-farming and moderate crop levels. they farm organically, and have been certified since 2003, while since 2017 have also been certified biodynamic.
With a real focus on sustainability, in 2020 they became the first American winery to be regenerative organic certified as well.
Paso Robles, California
From the Producer
Red grapes are sorted and destemmed after harvest, and the juice and whole berries moved to stainless steel or 1600-gallon wooden upright fermenters. Because we believe that the collection of wild yeasts at the winery is unique, all Tablas Creek wines are fermented using only native yeasts.
During fermentation, the must is pumped over, punched down or broken up using compressed air twice a day. After about 10 days on the skins, red wines are pressed, and complete primary and secondary fermentation in neutral barrels. Both red and white wines, as is traditional in Châteauneuf du Pape, are blended the spring after harvest, and aged for an additional year in 1200-gallon French oak foudres.
Blend : Mourvèdre (40%), Grenache (35%), Syrah (20%), Counoise (5%)
ABV : 14.50%
Closure : Cork
Drink Until : 2040
Bottle Size : 750ml
Critic Reviews
" Vivid ruby-red. Expansive, spice-accented aromas of red and blue fruit liqueur, Asian spices and candied flowers are lifted by a minerally nuance. Silky, broad and alluringly sweet in the mouth, offering sappy black raspberry, boysenberry and lavender pastille flavours that become more energetic with air. In a seamless, elegant style. A refreshing jolt of minerality adds focus and cut to the impressively long, youthfully tannic finish." Josh Raynolds (Vinous)
" A blend of 40% Mourvèdre, 35% Grenache, 20% Syrah and 5% Counoise, the 2014 Esprit de Tablas has a medium garnet-purple color and opens with fragrant dried roses, Ceylon tea and tobacco leaf notes over a core of black cherries, anise and black earth, plus a touch of underbrush. Medium to full-bodied with a firm frame of chewy tannins and lively acid, it offers a solid, muscular core of earthy flavours and a long finish with some pepper notes coming through." Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)
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