| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2009 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
2/24/2024 - devraj Likes this wine: 92 pointsRuby with light bricking. Incredibly perfumed with lifted baking spices and mint, red raspberries and cherries and florals. A silky and medium bodied palate shows sweet crushed red fruits, good acidity, and a long perfumed finish. Some alcohol peeks through on the back throat which keeps this wine from getting a higher score. |
| Red |
2012 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
2/22/2024 - Maphill01 wrote: NR1st of 2 bought at auction. Pristine, soft cork. Splash decanted off minimal sediment. Nicely aromatic. Black cherry. Raspberry, cola, cloves and some earthy notes. Comes across as a bigger wine, full bodied, glycerin with some heat on the finish. 30% new oak, 14.9% ABV. Drink now and over the next five years. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
2015 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
2/19/2024 - markcic Likes this wine: 91 pointsOpened a half bottle and let it breathe. The nose is dark red fruit. The palate was dark cherry, fig, a hint of dried spice leading to a moderately long finish. |
| Red |
2017 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
2/8/2024 - WineDoctors wrote: 89 pointsFlat no aging potential. ? Winemaker disruption with cali fires? Help us here |
| Red |
2017 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
1/25/2024 - Sagan99 Likes this wine: 90 points"Duckhorn Portfolio" - I guess I missed all these mergers and acquisitions, not only with this wine, but others.( I heard the other day Duckhorn bought Sonoma Cutrer, too!) |
| Red |
2017 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
11/12/2023 - hutch wrote: 89 pointsHad the chance to try this again, over two days. After a few hours this showed a little more than a year ago, but this doesn't reach the same heights as previous vintages I have had. I'm not sure what to think, as I can't imagine the sale would have had much to do with it, but those is a huge letdown for a $75 wine |
| Red |
2010 Calera Pinot Noir 35th Anniversary Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
10/28/2023 - Maphill01 wrote: NRDecanted for small amount of fine sediment. Garnet colored, bricking at the edges. Cherry, cola, some spices and a bit of sois bois. Ready with short decant. |
| Red |
2009 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
10/21/2023 - Altonplace wrote: flawedNot corked, just over aged. Can taste the bouquet but starting to turn. Drink or toss. |
| Red |
2010 Calera Pinot Noir 35th Anniversary Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
10/8/2023 - Sagan99 Likes this wine: 89 pointsCalera PN has been in my cellar for a few decades, though more recently, with more bottles. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
1999 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
10/6/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 91 pointsFrom a bottle that came ex-cellar via K&L. This pours light garnet in the glass with medium bricking. The nose is extremely expressive from the first pop showing vanilla, alcohol, charred oak, cinnamon sugar, bourbon, sweet cedar, a touch of prune, black tea, dark ripe dried cherry, and a touch of dried orange peel. While the dried cherry and orange peel is really quite nice, the bourbon type notes here hold this back a little for me. The palate enters on mostly red fruit that is quite ripe with velvity medium minus tannin and medium plus orange tinged acid. The finish replays much of the nose with significant alcohol protruding alongside some vanilla, charred oak, and black tea. I love Calera and find enjoyment in this bottle but I think the oak treatment and ripeness got away from them just a little here. |
| Red |
1997 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
9/17/2023 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 93 pointsStoge Off at the Sedgwick's, this was awesome... going strong in its old age and I think has 5-10 more years left... def'ly needed the 5 hours of decant I gave it, brightness, red fruit (med - dark), almost some minerality to it... lovely |
| Red |
2010 Calera Pinot Noir 35th Anniversary Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
9/5/2023 - Jon Mills Likes this wine: 94 pointsThis wine has sentimental value. We opened it for our anniversary and it did not disappoint. Lovely red fruit profile, well-balanced with generous structure and great length. Calera has been one of my favourite Californian producers for a long time and this wine delivered after nearly a decade of home storage. |
| Red |
2012 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
8/31/2023 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 91 pointsNice combination of black raspberry, cherry and mushroom. Balanced, mature. Drinking well now, likely at peak. |
| Red |
2012 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
8/26/2023 - Wine_Poobah Likes this wine: 94 pointsComplex red berry and floral aromas with that signature Calera “dustiness”. Very ripe and sweet flavor with lots of red cherry, plum, prune, blackberry and other dark fruits. Both fresh and dried fruit. Complex herbal finish, notes of mint? Deep flavor, somewhat jammy and heavy. Alcohol very apparent. |
| Red |
2013 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
8/13/2023 - ginfizz wrote: 89 pointsFrom a half bottle, tasting mature, solid line of resolved pinot fruit, medium to light concentration. Nose of cranberries and touch of tea, drink up! |
| Red |
2012 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
8/7/2023 - Philip67 Does not like this wine: 89 pointsFor a producer that has a reputation for a Burgundyesque style this is big and robust. Quite Californian in style: heavy sweet fruit that is more dark than ref Unfortunately the alcohol protrudes and spoils the finish. At 11 years old this is displaying lots of savoury and mixed spice notes, which sre reminiscent of Burgundy, though the spice is far more Californian. Long and complex. Drink now, not going to improve. |
| Red |
2018 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
7/30/2023 - Juliansi Likes this wine: 92 pointsLovely ripe cherry and raspberries intermingle with well integrated oak and creamy vanilla on the nose, followed consistently by a red fruit driven palate. |
| Red |
2018 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
7/3/2023 - KingsleyZissou wrote: 94 pointsAnother lovely single-vineyard from Mt Harlan. As with other estate Calera efforts, the nose is fascinatingly complex and quite Burgundian. Demands a long decant to tease out its many nuances but initial aromas show fruit intermingled with the heavy limestone influence — |
| Red |
2015 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
6/24/2023 - markcic Likes this wine: 91 pointsOpened a half bottle and let it breathe. The nose is dark red fruit. The palate was dark cherry, fig, a hint of dried spice leading to a modertely long finish. |
| Red |
1992 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
5/18/2023 - wine.chung Likes this wine: 92 pointsBirthday wine, an aged pinot I actually enjoyed! Perfect provenance and condition though, that probably helped |
| Red |
1997 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
4/13/2023 - WineDoctors wrote: 94 pointswith baby lamb chops, easter egg roast potatoes, amazing asparagus. |
| Red |
2012 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
4/7/2023 - canan wrote: 94 pointsIntense cranberry fruit with a touch of strawberry but also a touch of age with mushrooms and forest floor. The oak is especially present on the nose but is fully integrated on the palate. |
| Red |
1992 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
4/5/2023 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 93 pointslovely again... etherial in its elegance, with med-plus body filled with fruit and some hints of wood in the background still, zero tannin, balancing acidity... just a stalwart bottle of 30 year old pinot (and from Cali at that)... Calera is one of the few (only?) Cali pinot that can age like the burgs... gotta love it!!!!... I think this has as least 5 years left easily (at least this particular bottle) |
| Red |
2019 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
11/10/2022 - WindFlyer Likes this wine: 92 pointsMount Harlan Estate tasting at Calera (Hollister): dark but translucent garnet in the glass with medium body. there was strong smokey mineral whiff in the nose that never totally went away, but dissipated enough to let notes of black tea, pepper, and baking spice mix with the strawberry and black cherry aromas. medium body in the mouth with concentrated but dark fruit attack, medium plus acidity, and quite a bit of stony minerality; spicy flavours and solid tannins round out the profile and carry thru a fairly long finish. |
| Red |
2017 Calera Pinot Noir Mills VineyardMount Harlan more |
3/26/2023 - Slics wrote: 91 pointsI think this is pretty great. Not fully integrated yet but great red and plum fruits, goos acid and medium tannins. Slightly hot but I like this style. |
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