2019 Hommage à Nos Pairs Reserve
$98 (2019)
United States
Paso Robles
Central Coast
Red
96% Syrah, 2% Grenache, 2% Viognier (2019 vintage)
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2019
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Guillaume Fabre, who earned his Paso Robles stripes during a 10-year stint at Stephan Asseo’s L’Aventure winery, is one of California’s most talented winemakers. Now ensconced at his own Willow Creek winery, formerly known as Pipestem Vineyards before he purchased it in 2017, Fabre consistently makes some of the region’s best wines, both red and white. The 2019s are definitely not shy, but they also possess outstanding balance and well-knit tannins, which makes them deceptively drinkable already. I would suggest giving the wines a good amount of patience but can’t fault anyone who succumbs to their fruit-driven charms on the young side. It would be a shame to miss that quality.
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2018
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Guillaume Fabre is increasingly relying on his hilly, often steeply sloped, 28-acre home vineyard for his fruit, and that will become even more important as his new plantings continue to come on line. Fabre’s 2018s are a superb set of wines that show more vibrancy than his 2017s, with more approachable character and a bit less tannic structure. As with all of Fabre’s wines, they were made with the intent to develop slowly in bottle, but I have to say that they are also pretty delicious now, and I suspect that their drinking window will be open earlier and longer than usual.
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Guillaume Fabre’s 2017s show the lush, forward character of the vintage to full effect, which will come as no surprise to readers familiar with his winemaking style, which favors richness and flavor intensity but not at the expense of elegance. It’s a special vintage for Guillaume and his wife, Solène, as it marks their first harvest at their own property in the Willow Creek district, in the vineyard and at the winery that formerly housed Pipestem Cellars. It comprises of 28 acres of rolling, often steep hills that Guillaume is painstakingly replanting to less vigorous rootstock, which he says will bring even greater depth as well as energy to his wines, which are already among the most powerful from the west side of Paso Robles.
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Guillaume Fabre is slowly converting his winery and vineyard (the former Pipestone Vineyards) over to his own design. My visit in July included another tour of his mostly steep hillside plantings, which will be the heart of his wines in the near future. Fabre’s years with Stephan Asseo at L’Aventure (not to mention his roots in France’s Languedoc region, where the Fabre family have been vignerons for generations) show in his wine, which deliver depth and power but also yield surprisingly elegant character if given some bottle age.
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Guillaume Fabre is now the owner of the property formerly known as Pipestone Vineyards, which comprises 28 acres in the prime Willow Creek area of Paso Robles. Eight acres are currently under vine and another ten are slated for planting in the coming years, with adjustments planned for the parts of the property that are already planted. There’s also room for expanding the current winemaking facility, which will soon replace Fabre’s current operation in the Tin City area just south of downtown Paso Robles. He told me that with 18 acres he’ll have more than enough to keep him busy and doesn’t plan to take on any more consulting gigs as he wants to be fully focused on “realizing the potential of this site” which features a dramatic uphill slope behind his new house, winery and tasting room.
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Guillaume Fabre’s deeply concentrated and highly perfumed wines are clear reflections of the nine years that he spent working as assistant winemaker to Stephan Asseo at L’Aventure. Fabre left L’Aventure in 2012 to devote more time to his own project, as well as a handful of consulting projects, including Hearst Ranch Winery. Fabre has the proverbial wine in his blood as he was born and raised in France’s Languedoc region, where his family made wine for three generations at Corbières before selling their property and buying in Bordeaux in 2000. After graduating with a winemaking and enology degree from Carcassonne in 2001, Fabre oversaw Domaine Sica, in Minervois, before moving to Paso Robles to join the team at L’Aventure in 2004. These are distinctly bold, extravagant wines that walk the line of richness and elegance well, with the sheer mass of fruit and harmonious tannins that allow for early drinking as well as the depth, structure and balance to age. Clos Solene is now one of Paso’s top addresses. Small production, along with a loyal private clientele make the wines a bit difficult to hunt down but they’re worth the effort.
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Guillaume Fabre is now flying solo with his own winery after departing his position as assistant winemaker at L'Aventure. He has set up shop in the newly minted Paso Robles wine ghetto named Tin City, which sits just off Highway 101 on the east side service road at the south end of town. Fabre's bold, concentrated wines bear strong comparison to those of L'Aventure and he makes no apologies for crafting them in a style "that demands aging, without compromise." That said, I have found the reds to drink pretty well with some aeration but there's no question that early consumption is short-changing them. Fans of powerhouse reds should definitely seek them out but there isn't a lot to go around.
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Guillaume Fabre has made the big jump to running his own winery full-time. Fabre started his US career at L'Aventure, where he was the winemaker for a number of years, and virtually like a son to proprietor Stephan Asseo. At Clos Solene, Fabre makes extroverted wines built on texture and volume. This set of current and future releases is full of highlights.
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Guillaume and Solene Fabre excel with rich, full-bodied wines built on fruit and texture. These are some of the most exciting and unique wines being made in Paso Robles today. Guillaume Fabre has been the winemaker at L'Aventure for a number of years. It's great to see him doing equally fabulous work at Clos Solene.
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Guillaume Fabre finds time away from his day job at L'Aventure to farm small pieces of property (he tends all of the rows himself) of prime real estate on the west side of Paso Robles that produce the fruit for his slowly growing personal project, named after his wife Solene.He also buys fruit from Saxum's James Berry vineyard, and from the Booker and Russell Family vineyards, which in 2012 he blended with his own viognier that was grown in a tightly spaced (3 feet by 3 feet) plot and yielded barely one pound of fruit per vine.Fabre cites John Kongsgaard's epic VioRous as the inspiration for the wine, by the way.As for Fabre's reds, they unsurprisingly share plenty in common with the Stephan Asseo's L'Aventure wines:they're deeply flavored, powerful and structured to age but with a distinct opulence as well.He isn't shy about laying lots of new oak on his red wines (100% for the 2010s) and thinks that the depth of fruit that's attainable here is more than capable of handling it.
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Guillaume Favre crafts his Clos Solene wines at L'Aventure, where he is also the winemaker. Clos Solene is still very much a work in progress. The wines are a bit inconsistent, but when they are on, they are compelling. Favre remains one of Paso's most exciting emerging producers.
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Guillaume Fabre continues to expand his line-up of wines and while production is very limited and prices are undeniably on the high side, they show outstanding quality across the board. Fabre's day job is at L'Aventure, and his own wines show similar traits to those of Stephan Asseo, "emphasizing power and intensity with elegance and balance above all," as he put it. He told me that he wants to avoid phenolic qualities in making roussanne, for example, "because too many of them show hardness and dry character at the expense of the fruit and freshness." Like Asseo, he isn't scared of new oak "if the fruit can handle it, which is possible if you have concentration from low yields, which is what I look for, always. But if the oak is getting in the way, then it hasn't worked."
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Clos Solène is one of the most exciting young wineries in Paso Robles. Guillaume and Solène Fabre run this tiny property while working full-time at L'Aventure and Halter Ranch respectively. Guillaume Fabre, a native of Languedoc, learned to make wine working alongside his father, but the lure of the American dream was too strong, and in 2004 Fabre moved to Paso Robles. These sleek, artisan wines are well worth seeking out, even if pricing is very high by Paso Robles standards.
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