Obituaries Tablas Creek Vineyard founder Robert Haas passed away at the age of 90. Robert Haas has played a leading role in the American wine industry for over half a century and was a pivotal and influential figure in the Central Coast wine world. After graduating from Yale University in 1950, he joined his father’s firm, M. Lehmann, Inc., a retailer of fine wines and spirits in Manhattan. In the mid-1960s he set out on his own to import fine estate wines from Burgundy, Bordeaux, the Loi...