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Calera was officially founded in 1975, when owner/winemaker Josh Jensen planted his first 24 acres of pinot noir in three separate parcels in Mt. Harlan. Having studied in Burgundy, Josh was determined to follow in his mentors' foot steps. He spent two years searching for limestone throughout California before finally purchasing a high-elevation parcel with a limestone deposit of several million tons in early 1974. (Limestone had even been commercially quarried here a 100 years earlier. To this day, there stands a magnificently well-preserved, 30-foot tall masonry limekiln, or "calera" in Spanish. It thus serves as the winery’s symbol and appears on every bottle of wine.)

Located 90 miles south of San Francisco and about 25 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, Calera is near Mt. Harlan in San Benito County. Its elevation is 2,200 feet above sea level, making it one of the highest and coldest vineyard properties in California. All the vineyards are based on selected cuttings from Burgundy (“Calera Selection”), with new vineyards started from massale selections taken from older plots.

In the Burgundian tradition, Josh named each parcel individually to emphasize the fact that each would produce a distinct wine. The original plantings are the Selleck Vineyard (5 acres), Reed Vineyard (5 acres), and Jensen Vineyard (14 acres). These vineyards produced their initial tiny crop in 1978.
Calera's winemaking is steeped in non-interventionist practices, such as the use of native yeasts, hand-harvesting, whole cluster fermentations, minimal racking, and fining and/or filtration only when necessary, insuring the bottled wines express all of the natural greatness of their vineyard origins.
All estate Calera wines are now made with organic grapes.

CALERA CHARDONNAY CENTRAL COAST 2008 Hand-harvested; gravity-fed; natural fermentation with native yeasts, 100% malolactic; no racking; aged in 10% new French oak for 10 months Wine Advocate Rating: 90 to 90 more details >

750ml Bottle $19.99 Case of 12 $203.88 Add to Wine Diary

CALERA PINOT NOIR CENTRAL COAST 2007 Calera was officially founded in 1975, when owner/winemaker Josh Jensen planted his first 24 acres of pinot noir in three separate parcels in Mt. Harlan. Having studied in Burgundy, Josh was determined to follow in his mentors' foot steps. He spent two years searching for limestone throughout... Wine Advocate Rating: 88 to 88 Wine Spectator Rating: 88 to 88 more details >

750ml Bottle $27.99 Case of 12 $285.48 Add to Wine Diary

CALERA PINOT NOIR JENSEN 2006 The 2006 Jensen Pinot Noir has gorgeous ruby color and a perfumed bouquet of dark plum, briar spice, cranberry and tiny pinches of both anise and orange zest. A restrained slate minerality and subtle smokiness pull us into a palate of mouthwatering black cherry and dark spice. This wine is... Burghound Rating: 92 to 92 more details >

750ml Bottle $69.99 Case of 6 $356.94 Add to Wine Diary