Cotton candy sky in Paso Robles tonight

Still life with pears of various sizes #photo

Maybe the most atmospheric harvest #photo I’ve ever seen. Taken last Wednesday morning around 4am by #TablasCreek’s Vineyard Manager Jordy Lonborg.

That's the nearly-full moon behind some high clouds, with the stacks of empty picking bins in the foreground. There are moments of beauty every day out here. At this time of year, most nights, too.

Templeton, CA, doing its best Serengeti impression.

#photo #photography #dusk

I’m so looking forward to this week’s #TablasCreek #InstagramLive conversation with winemaker Steve Edmunds! Steve, who just announced his retirement, is winemaker and owner of Edmunds St. John winery, one of the pioneers of the #RhoneRangers movement and this year's Rhone Rangers Lifetime Achievement honoree. Join us on the Tablas Creek Instagram feed tomorrow at noon Pacific.

I'm so looking forward to my #TablasCreek #InstagramLive conversation this week. Bill Easton, proprietor of Domaine de la Terre Rouge and Easton Wines, is a great winemaker, a passionate advocate for the Sierra Foothills, and the 2016 #RhoneRangers Lifetime Achievement Award winner. I learn something from him every time we talk. He was I hope you can join us tomorrow.

That felt good… it’s been a while.

@JonOfLodi they end up there just through the once-per-year tilling. It’s not a conscious thing, and there are many more vines without rocks than with.

It’s been a mild spring so far, with morning #fog most days and highs only in the 70s. That’s great for the vines… and an opportunity for some cool atmospheric #vineyard #photos!

I’ve been talking to lots of (figurative) rock stars for my #TablasCreek Instagram Live conversations this spring. This Wednesday I’ll get to speak with a literal rock star. Can’t wait to get to discuss her wine journey with #Pink!

https://tablascreek.com/events/conversation_with_jason_featuring_alecia_moore

@JonOfLodi there are a handful that cross state lines, including the Walla Walla AVA that the Rocks is nested within. But expanding the AVA just to bring it across state lines, when doing so would require including land that doesn’t match the rest of the terroir, doesn’t seem like the right approach.

I enjoyed this #TablasCreek blog — both the research for it and the writing of it — as much as I have any in a long time. The Rocks District is a remarkable AVA, making distinctive wines, and yet most of the producers there can’t use the AVA name on their labels because they make their wines 15 minutes away, across a state line. https://tablascreek.typepad.com/tablas/2024/05/you-arent-hearing-as-much-about-the-rocks-district-as-you-should-be-youll-likely-be-surprised-why.html

What month is the most beautiful in #PasoRobles? I nominate April.

#photo #photography #vineyard #spring

https://tablascreek.typepad.com/tablas/2024/04/april-in-paso-robles-is-peak-green.html

There was a lovely article this week in the #SFChronicle by Esther Mobley celebrating Steve Edmunds. He’s made soulful wines for 40 years, in a style that’s been consistent with who he is: thoughtful, understated, respectful of tradition without being bound by it.

I’m very happy #RhoneRangers will be honoring him with a lifetime achievement award this summer, and he’ll get the chance to see how much his work has meant to those of us in the American Rhone community.

https://tinyurl.com/p72f27f7

I could not be more excited for my guest for today's #InstagramLive conversation. @andrewcjefford is a lyrical and thoughtful creator of language, who Karen MacNeil called our "greatest living wine writer". Join us today at noon Pacific on the #TablasCreek IG feed!

Love the textures in this photo. And the content, straight out of #organic #vineyard central casting.

#photo #ladybug #TablasCreek

@ochaos awesome! Thanks Ryan. I’m happy we discovered how to do that during Covid. One of the good things to come out of the experience. Thanks for joining!

Our #TablasCreek boxed wine experiment made the front page of the #SanFranciscoChronicle today!

It’s been amazing #rainbow weather today!

#california #cawx #photo #photograph

What a pleasure my #TablasCreek #InstagramLive conversation with #OwenBargreen was this week. We talked about how he balances a full-time career as a clinical psychologist with the demands of producing hundreds of tasting reports and thousands of wine notes each year, what stories he likes to tell and why he doesn't publish negative reviews, and took a deep dive into his recent report on the 2020, 21 & 22 vintages in Paso Robles.

Archived on the Tablas IG feed and at https://vimeo.com/925585271