Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas Blanc 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas Blanc 2022.

Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas Blanc 2022
12.5% alcohol, cork, Paso Robles CA USA.

This was tasted on the Mattinson in California trail. It’s a blend of 33% Roussanne, 32% Grenache Blanc, 14% Picpoul Blanc, 8% Clairette Blanche, 8% Picardan and 5% Bourboulenc.

Delicious mix of savouriness and fruitiness on the nose. Excellent weight and energy on the palate. Presence. Power. Refinement. Stones, flowers, citrus oils and stonefruits. Chalk. Gritty, grippy, minerally finish. Super. Amazing white wine. Gorgeously dry. Let me at it. Let me stay. 94 points.

 
Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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