Tablas Creek Vineyard Patelin de Tablas Rosé 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Tablas Creek Vineyard Patelin de Tablas Rosé 2024.

Tablas Creek Vineyard Patelin de Tablas Rosé 2024
13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Paso Robles USA.

Rosé made with Grenache, Mourvèdre, Counoise and Vermentino grapes. Dry-grown, farmed biodynamically. This is a textural rosé, dry, akin to crunching into apples and white-red strawberries and just-ripe peaches. It’s light – or frisky is probably a better word – but the texture here gives the wine’s presence a boost, as does the grippy, smoky, stony feel to the finish. I tasted this at the winery and again later that day and in both instances it seemed tip top for quality. 94 points.

You can buy this in 3 litre cask for $95. Which is four bottles of great rose. In weight terms that’s 3.7kg for the box, versus 5 kg for the four bottle equivalent. That’s a great environmental saving for the bag-in-box version.

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.

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