Tablas Creek Vineyard Patelin de Tablas Rosé 2024

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

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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