Tablas Creek, Esprit de Tablas Blanc, Paso Robles

Tablas Creek · California › Paso Robles › United States of America

White · White Rhone Blend
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LWIN 1123500
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91 /100
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Taster #2159 · Jul 25, 2025
92/100
This medium golden wine is a blend of 46% Roussanne, 28% Grenache Blanc, 14% Picpoul Blanc, 5% Bourboulenc, 4% Clairette Blanche and 3% Picardan. Intensely aromatic, it serves up an array of blood oranges, baked apples, white peaches, Anjou pears, honey, jasmine and beeswax. Medium-bodied, fresh, lightly oaked and seamlessly alcoholic (13.0%), it delivers flavors mirroring the nose, adding notes of allspice and vanilla. Dense in the middle, it ultimately concludes with a lengthy, mineral-driven finish. This is a terrific …
2020 vintage
Taster #4344 · May 25, 2025
Very smooth, pretty, nice blend
2020 vintage
Taster #4342 · Apr 9, 2025
92/100
A little early but nice with lobster ravioli.
2020 vintage
Taster #5061 · Nov 2, 2024
90/100
Good Rhone white. Floral notes, nice body
2020 vintage
Taster #6103 · Jul 28, 2024
89/100
Consistent, well balanced creamy tastes of apple, ripe fruits & minerals. Better balanced than previous bottle.
2020 vintage
Taster #6766 · Jul 1, 2024
96/100
Still young but drinking very well. Lush rich flavors with medium body.
2020 vintage
Taster #4344 · Jan 11, 2024
90/100
Roussanne driven...yet very minerally and slightly tart...still love the blend.
2020 vintage
Taster #8236 · Nov 21, 2023
First bottle of this, from a batch purchased at the winery this past Summer. Chilled, PnP, drank with Val over 90 minutes. Pale gold color. Perfumed nose of orchard fruits, baked apple, parrafin. Light palate repeating orchard fruit profile, creamy through back palate. Medium weight and finish. Very nice wine, opened in the glass and improved over time we drank it. Will give next bottle more time to open. Unique blend, good on its own or as an aperitif.
2020 vintage
Taster #9825 · Oct 28, 2023
88/100
Winemaker clearly had fun with this one given the use of six Rhône varietals, Brilliant light/medium yellow, nose is flinty with citrus and a hint of fruit, acidity is modest which our preference and rolls in mouth while being dry, pulled a little floral roundness with modestly spicy food,
2020 vintage
Taster #1551 · Sep 2, 2023
92/100
Tasted after 30 minutes of air. Medium straw color. There is some weight to this wine. Medium plus body. Mango and orange here. Light floral notes. Medium acidity. Well balanced. Could use some time.
2020 vintage
Taster #1551 · Apr 30, 2023
92/100
Starting to open after an hour. I would suggest holding these or giving a 90 minute decant. Nice floral notes. Some citrus and stone fruits. Excellent balance and depth. Should be another great wine from Tablas in a few years.
2020 vintage
Taster #4509 · Mar 11, 2023
93/100
Pale lemon, with medium plus intensity, youthful, aromas of lemon, lime, hazelnut, pineapple,honey, and pear. This wine has medium alcohol and body with high acidity. The palate matches the aromas with the lime and hazelnut predominating with a long finish that ends with honey. This is a very good wine. It should be drunk between now and 2027. After two days, the aromas evolved to be primarily hazelnut, lemon, honey, and banana. The flavors evolve to melon, banana, and honey.
2020 vintage
Taster #7030 · Feb 15, 2023
91/100
deep gold color, rich aroma of melon, full taste of fruit with saline balance and mineral limp,
2020 vintage
Taster #6103 · Feb 12, 2023
88/100
Mostly citrusy and minerally. Roussanne is not a good match for our taste buds.
2020 vintage
Taster #3662 · Jan 16, 2023
An immediately appealing nose of poached pear and baked quince, vanilla custard and nutmeg spice. On the palate, lovely and long, with Roussanne-driven flavors of beeswax and preserved lemon, rounded out by just a hint of sweet oak. Fresh and lifted, but long and textured. A charming Esprit Blanc that will be hard to resist young but which should also do beautifully with time in the cellar. Drink over the next two decades.
2020 vintage
Taster #4240 · Nov 13, 2022
92/100
Had 2x750mL as part of Friendsgiving dinner wine pairings. Decanted 2 hours. Deftly done and would hold its own in a blind tasting of many very good Chateaneuf du Pape Blancs that I have drunk over the years (but unfortunately not put many notes in CT for). Would benefit from another 3-4 years and ride and improve over another 5 I would bet. A distinct brioche and nuttiness are present and complement a solid but not bracing acidic spine and …
2020 vintage
Taster #3307 · Oct 28, 2022
95/100
Wonderful all around, amazing blend of 6 rhone whites, rousanne and grenach blanc dominant. Aromatic with notes of citrus, honey and light nuttiness, on the palette notes of lemon and zest, toasted brioche and lightly pungent. Great acidity, was relatively light and bright, light to mid on the palette with medium finish.
2020 vintage