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As always, my tasting at Tablas Creek was a bit of a marathon session covering several dozen wines, but that is just a testament to a world-class winery that excels at so many things. This year I tasted with proprietor Jason Haas, winemaker Ryan Hebert and assistant winemaker Chelsea Magnusson. Haas describes 2011 as a difficult year. A devastating spring frost reduced yields by as much as 40% in some places. Vintage 2010 was characterized by a long growing season, but without the huge heat spikes that were seen elsewhere. It was also much more plentiful, which gave the winery the quality and ability to bottle its four main red Rhône varieties separately.

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Jason Haas and his winemaker/vineyard manager Neal Collins told me that they're particularly excited about exploring the potential for varieties outside the traditional Rhone palette that they helped establish in Paso Robles. There's a bottling of petit manseng made here now, which joins the tannat, picpoul and vermentino as alien varietal wines at this pioneering winery. "Who knows what will actually turn out to work best here?" Haas asked rhetorically. It's pretty humbling to be considered the old-timer when you've only been set up for about 25 years. In historic wine terms, that's the blink of an eye." This year's set of releases includes a new bottling, Patelin, that comes in both a red and a white version and includes some purchased fruit. These are now the entry-level bottlings here, which allows the Cotes de Tablas wines to be pushed up the cellar hierarchy and be given higher-quality fruit than before. According to Collins,"the Cotes de Tablas wines were always too serious to be considered the basic wines, and now we hope that they'll be taken for what they are, not looked at simply as the low end of the collection."

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