After a challenging 2020 vintage, 2021 arrived in this key region in California’s Central Coast with near-perfect conditions, though with lower than ideal yields.
Where successful, the best examples showed power and balance with acidity as a welcome foil.
Jason Haas, proprietor at Tablas Creek Vineyard, calls 2021 in Paso Robles ‘the recipe for a really great, blockbuster-style vintage’ and ‘as you would if you could design a vintage from scratch’.
For many, bud break in 2021 was earlier than normal, there were no major heat spikes,
