Calera, Pinot Noir Jensen, 2008 grower First vintage was 1988

First vintage was 1988

or decanted on a quiet evening with a good book

Fermented with the stems included

though decanting helps if you open one young

brings out the best of this rugged terroir

Calera, Pinot Noir Jensen, 2008 grower First vintage was 1988The flagship of California's limestone dream. Josh Jensen planted Jensen Vineyard in 1975, the first vines on Mt. Harlan and the namesake of the man who spent years searching California for the kind of calcareous soils that make Burgundy Burgundy. The 2008 is pure Josh Jensen era nearly a decade before Duckhorn acquired the estate in 2017, and made in a frost shortened vintage that yielded small, intensely concentrated berries. Seventeen years on, the