2007 Calera Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard
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Bright ruby. Candied red and dark berries, truffle, pipe tobacco and smoky Indian spices on the nose, with slow-building florality and a touch of black cardamom. A fleshy, shapely midweight that offers sweet red fruit and rose pastille flavors and notes of succulent herbs and spicecake. Lingers with good tenacity on the finish, which leaves smoke, floral and sweet red fruit notes behind.
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From a 13.1-acre vineyard planted in 1997, the 2007 Pinot Noir Mills Vineyard was cropped at an absurdly low .84 tons of fruit per acre. This beauty offers up notes of forest floor, raspberries, fresh mushrooms, sweet currants, and meat juices. The provocative, riveting aromatics are followed by a medium to full-bodied wine with sweet tannins, dense, chewy, lush fruit, good acidity, and a 40-second finish. Drink this profound Pinot Noir over the next decade or more. This may be the strongest group of wines Calera has produced in many years. From their less expensive whites through the generic and single vineyard Pinot Noirs, this remarkable portfolio showcases this idiosyncratic terroir isolated on Mt. Harlan. For starters, Calera has once again made the finest Aligote in America. Tel. (831) 637-9170; Fax (831) 637-9070
About the producer
Discover the wines from Josh Jensen’s pioneering estate in the Mount Harlan AVA, crafting elegant Pinot Noir from limestone soils in California