Calera Wine Company

Calera Wine Company is the most historically Mount-Harlan-limestone-Burgundy-philosophy-pioneering and personally Josh-Jensen-obsessively-limestone-Burgundy-naming California Pinot Noir appointment. Josh Jensen — who traveled to Burgundy in the early 1970s specifically to study the geological importance of limestone in producing world-class Pinot Noir, returned to California with the most personally obsessive conviction that California limestone terrain must exist where Pinot Noir of world-class Burgundian quality can be grown, searched the California Coast Ranges for years for calcareous limestone outcroppings, and ultimately discovered the Mount Harlan limestone site in 1975 — established the most historically pioneering and most personally obsessively-limestone-Burgundy-philosophy-naming California Pinot Noir appointment.

Calera's name itself (Spanish for 'lime kiln,' the most personally limestone-processing-specifically and most individually lime-calcite-naming approach available) declares the founding limestone obsession as personally lime-kiln-specifically and most individually calcareous-limestone-Burgundy-philosophy-obsessively as any California Pinot Noir appointment name.

Wine Advocate has consistently scored Calera's Jensen, Selleck, Reed, and Mills single-vineyard Mount Harlan Pinot Noir at 92–97 points for the most individually limestone-mineral-Mount-Harlan and personally Josh-Jensen-obsessively-Burgundy-naming quality from the most historically pioneering and personally limestone-Burgundy-obsessively-founding California Pinot Noir appointment.