Jason Haas

Jason Haas is the second generation proprietor of Tablas Creek. He learned the wine business at an early age, accompanying his father Robert Haas on European wine-buying trips and spending two summers working at Château de Beaucastel.

After obtaining an undergraduate degree in Economics from Williams College and a Master's in Archaeology from Cornell, Jason spent a four-year stint managing a tech company in Washington, DC. He moved to Paso Robles to join Tablas Creek in April of 2002. As General Manager of Tablas Creek since 2006, he oversees the business, winemaking, and sales and marketing operations.

Jason has spoken on wine and winemaking topics at events including the Unified Grape & Wine Symposium, Central Coast Insights, the American Wine Society, California Wine Summit, Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta, Hospice du Rhône, Central Coast Wine Classic and many others. His writing has been published in Wine Business Monthly, Wines & Vines, Decanter, Wine Industry Network and Zester Daily, and he is the principal author of the Tablas Creek blog, which has been an eight-time finalist and two-time winner for Best Winery Blog at the Wine Blog Awards.

In addition to his work at Tablas Creek, Jason serves on the Board of Directors of the Rhone Rangers (as Past President) and Free the Grapes, and is a former board member of the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance and Family Winemakers of California. He was voted by his peers 2015 Paso Robles Wine Country Wine Industry Person of the Year and 2017 San Luis Obispo County Wine Industry Person of the Year. In 2022 he was named one of the inaugural class of Food & Wine Magazine Drinks Innovators of the Year.