2006 Calera Wine Company Viognier Mt. Harlan

With over thirty years of winemaking history, Calera is one of the earliest proponents of vineyard-designated Pinot Noirs that offer accurate reflections of favored sites, Josh Jensen offers rather restrained wines that combine red fruit, mineral, earth and floral notes in a particularly Burgundian way. Made in high-altitude limestone-rich vineyards in the Gavilan Mountains east of Monterey, these are dense but lively Pinots that can improve with age. Don't ignore the Chardonnay or even the Viognier either.

With over thirty years of winemaking history, Calera is one of the earliest proponents of vineyard-designated Pinot Noirs that offer accurate reflections of favored sites, Josh Jensen offers rather restrained wines that combine red fruit, mineral, earth and floral notes in a parti... more