Tablas Creek Paso Robles Roussanne 2024

Tablas Creek Paso Robles Roussanne

Region: California, USA

Vintage: 2024

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Roussanne

ABV: 13%

The wine has a powerful nose of ripe pear skin, honey, and brioche. The palate is broad and textured with flavours of pineapple, tropical mango, and honeycomb. The finish is long and layered.

Tablas Creek Roussanne is produced from 100% estate grown fruit. Located twelve miles from the Pacific Ocean and with an average altitude of 450 metres above sea level, the estate’s hot and sunny days are tempered by cool nights, resulting in fully ripe grapes with fresh acidity. The site is dry-farmed, and certified organic and biodynamic. Its shallow, rocky and limestone-rich soils are based on the same geologic origins as the Beaucastel vineyards and the estate vineyard was planted with cuttings imported from the Beaucastel estate.

The grapes were harvested by hand and fermented in neutral oak barrels using only indigenous yeasts. The wine was racked and blended and moved into French oak for ageing. Roughly 60% was aged in 132-gallon puncheons, and 40" from 60-gallon barriques, about 50% new oak.

Tablas Creek was founded in 1987 by the Perrin family of Château de Beaucastel, and the Haas family, owners of the US importer Vineyard Brands. After many years travelling across the United States together to promote the Perrin wines, Robert Haas and Jacques Perrin agreed that California’s climate was ideally suited to the Rhône’s native grape varieties and decided to establish their own winery.