2001 Calera Jensen Vineyard Mt. Harlan

Inland from Monterey, alone on his mountaintop vineyard in the Gabilan Mountain range, winemaker Josh Jensen goes on quietly producing some of the state's most refined, expressive Pinot Noirs. This elegant bottling, with its red cherry fruit and aromatic touch of fennel, has the structure to age gracefully for quite a few years.

To make great wine it is essential to employ the most gentle of methods in the winemaking process and to handle the wine with the utmost care and attention.

Calera’s one-of-a-kind, multi-level (7 tier), gravity-flow winery built into the side of a mountain allows wines to be moved in the gentlest possible way, by the natural force of gravity. This, along with Calera’s other non-interventionist techniques, such as the use of native yeasts, whole cluster fermentations and minimal racking, insures the bottled wines
express all of the natural greatness of their vineyard origins.

Calera Wine Company's history goes back 30 years, to when Josh Jensen fell in love with the wines of Burgundy and decided to turn that love into his life's work.