Tablas

American  

[tahb-luhs] / ˈtɑb ləs /

noun

1. an island in the Sibuyan Sea, Philippines, one of the Romblon Islands. 265 sq. mi. (686 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

Tablas Creek Vineyard, in the coastal foothills of Paso Robles, had been producing about a third of its typical yield since 2017 due to severe drought.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2023

For several days, Jason Haas and his employees at the Tablas Creek Vineyard couldn't reach their vines.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2023

Since that initial vineyard went in, Tablas has continued to add to it.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

That’s when the Paso Robles winery Tablas Creek, with its French partners the Perrin family of the Rhône Valley, started importing all the varieties found in their home region, Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2018

The islands of Tablas, Sibuyan, Romblon, and Banton, and the western part of the island of Negros, would belong also to this new bishopric, and Christianity would be considerably increased.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen