Winemaker Notes
A pretty light peach color. On the nose, bright aromatics of mandarin orange, cherry blossom, wild strawberry, and chalky minerals. The mouth is bursting with yellow plum and nectarine, salty minerality, bright acids, and a lingering finish with notes of sea spray and citrus pith.
Blend: 67% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre, 9% Counoise, 3% Vermentino
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Attractive fruit here with peaches, forest berries and sweet spices. Medium body with a creamy texture. Well-rounded with plenty of juicy fruit and spices intermingling on the palate and onto the satisfying, bright finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
Showing almost more like a white wine than a pink one, this blend of 67% Grenache, 21% Mourvèdre, 9% Counoise and 3% Vermentino is a yellow hue in the glass, offering pleasant honey, daffodil and light apple aromas. It’s very textural on the palate, where honey, toasted cashew and lemon cream flavors work in harmony.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Patelin de Tablas Rosé is made up of 67% Grenache, 21% Mourvèdre, 9% Counoise and 3% Vermentino. It has a pale salmon-pink color and ripe aromas of melon, banana, beeswax and spicy undertones. The medium-bodied palate is bursting with generous, spicy fruit. It has juicy acidity, and a touch of texture lengthens the finish.
Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
Paso Robles has made a name for itself as a source of supple, powerful, fruit-driven Central Coast wines. But with eleven smaller sub-AVAs, there is actually quite a bit of diversity to be found in this inland portion of California’s Central Coast.
Just east over the Santa Lucia Mountains from the chilly Pacific Ocean, lie the coolest in the region: Adelaida, Templeton Gap and (Paso Robles) Willow Creek Districts, as well as York Mountain AVA and Santa Margarita Ranch. These all experience more ocean fog, wind and precipitation compared to the rest of the Paso sub-appellations. The San Miguel, (Paso Robles) Estrella, (Paso Robles) Geneso, (Paso Robles) Highlands, El Pomar and Creston Districts, along with San Juan Creek, are the hotter, more western appellations of the greater Paso Robles AVA.
This is mostly red wine country, with Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel standing out as the star performers. Other popular varieties include Merlot, Petite Sirah, Petit Verdot, Syrah, Grenache and Rhône blends, both red and white. There is a fairly uniform tendency here towards wines that are unapologetically bold and opulently fruit-driven, albeit with a surprising amount of acidity thanks to the region’s chilly nighttime temperatures.