2017 Tablas Creek Patelin de Tablas

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 89.0 points

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  12/25/2023 - tward Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Very Good-
  Coming in a bit simpler than it had been. Really solid, flexible food wine, fruit forward, clean, medium weight, and enjoyable. I don't see the need to hold longer.
  
  13.0% abv
  
  Empty bottle weight: 460g

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  6/13/2023 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- cracked and poured --
  -- tasted non-blind over several days --
  -- 48% Syrah, 32% Grenache, 16% Mourvedre, and 4% Counoise --
  
  Nothing great, nothing bad, just a ripe, but well-judged, red Rhone blend. 13.0% alc. is not noticeable. Medium-full bodied, with dark fruit flavors. Medium-low acidity. Not much in the way of tannins. Not funky. O .n the softer side. Drink Now and over the near term

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  8/7/2022 - Local Peddler wrote:

  From Jason at Tablas Creek,
  
  "In recent years, when we have a vintage we love, we've started stashing a modest quantity in our library to show how it can age. And the blockbuster 2017 vintage produced a Patelin de Tablas worthy of that aging, and more. The blend of 48% Syrah, 32% Grenache, 16% Mourvedre, and 4% Counoise tastes like it has one foot in the old world and one in the new, as well as one foot in the northern Rhone and one in the south. It was blended in May of 2018 and bottled in August of that same year. In the intervening four years, it's developed a lovely meatiness to complement the black fruit and spice it has had since the beginning.
  
  Tasting Notes: A meaty nose of pancetta, baker's chocolate, and brambly blackberry. On the palate, juicy black fruit with a salted brown butter richness and a sweet tobacco herbiness. The long finish, with notes of iron and blackberry, still shows the wine's essential youthfulness, with its age coming out in that recurring pancetta note. We recommend you decant this (and any screwcapped red) and enjoy it any time in the next six-to-eight years.

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  6/14/2022 - richardkim wrote: 88 Points

  Medium ruby color with slight bricking. After half an hour the fruit begins to open. The palate is medium-light with bright simple red fruits. Acidity and tannins are holding up well but the fruit feels faded, throwing off the balance.

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  11/7/2021 - AAW_RightWine wrote: 92 Points

  Needs another year but drinking very well for being so young

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