diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a01d3dc5..2092aaa0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fix potentially empty expanded value for duplicate key (#260 by [@bbc]).
+- Fix parsing of unquoted values containing several adjacent space or tab characters
+  (#277 by [@bbc]).
 
 ## [0.14.0] - 2020-07-03
 
diff --git a/src/dotenv/parser.py b/src/dotenv/parser.py
index 2c93cbd0..ab08a777 100644
--- a/src/dotenv/parser.py
+++ b/src/dotenv/parser.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def make_regex(string, extra_flags=0):
 _equal_sign = make_regex(r"(=[^\S\r\n]*)")
 _single_quoted_value = make_regex(r"'((?:\\'|[^'])*)'")
 _double_quoted_value = make_regex(r'"((?:\\"|[^"])*)"')
-_unquoted_value_part = make_regex(r"([^ \r\n]*)")
+_unquoted_value_part = make_regex(r"(\S*)")
 _comment = make_regex(r"(?:[^\S\r\n]*#[^\r\n]*)?")
 _end_of_line = make_regex(r"[^\S\r\n]*(?:\r\n|\n|\r|$)")
 _rest_of_line = make_regex(r"[^\r\n]*(?:\r|\n|\r\n)?")
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ def parse_unquoted_value(reader):
         (part,) = reader.read_regex(_unquoted_value_part)
         value += part
         after = reader.peek(2)
-        if len(after) < 2 or after[0] in u"\r\n" or after[1] in u" #\r\n":
-            return value
-        value += reader.read(2)
+        if after[:1] not in (u" ", u"\t") or after in (u" #", u"\t#"):
+            return value.rstrip()
+        value += reader.read(1)
 
 
 def parse_value(reader):
diff --git a/tests/test_parser.py b/tests/test_parser.py
index f8075138..2b787193 100644
--- a/tests/test_parser.py
+++ b/tests/test_parser.py
@@ -19,20 +19,36 @@
     (u"# a=b", [Binding(key=None, value=None, original=Original(string=u"# a=b", line=1), error=False)]),
     (u"a=b#c", [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b#c", original=Original(string=u"a=b#c", line=1), error=False)]),
     (
-        u'a=b # comment',
-        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b", original=Original(string=u"a=b # comment", line=1), error=False)],
+        u'a=b #c',
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b", original=Original(string=u"a=b #c", line=1), error=False)],
     ),
     (
-        u"a=b space ",
-        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b space", original=Original(string=u"a=b space ", line=1), error=False)],
+        u'a=b\t#c',
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b", original=Original(string=u"a=b\t#c", line=1), error=False)],
     ),
     (
-        u"a='b space '",
-        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b space ", original=Original(string=u"a='b space '", line=1), error=False)],
+        u"a=b c",
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b c", original=Original(string=u"a=b c", line=1), error=False)],
     ),
     (
-        u'a="b space "',
-        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b space ", original=Original(string=u'a="b space "', line=1), error=False)],
+        u"a=b\tc",
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b\tc", original=Original(string=u"a=b\tc", line=1), error=False)],
+    ),
+    (
+        u"a=b  c",
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b  c", original=Original(string=u"a=b  c", line=1), error=False)],
+    ),
+    (
+        u"a=b c ",
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b c", original=Original(string=u"a=b c ", line=1), error=False)],
+    ),
+    (
+        u"a='b c '",
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b c ", original=Original(string=u"a='b c '", line=1), error=False)],
+    ),
+    (
+        u'a="b c "',
+        [Binding(key=u"a", value=u"b c ", original=Original(string=u'a="b c "', line=1), error=False)],
     ),
     (
         u"export export_a=1",