The Winery Calera of Central Coast of California

Winery Calera - Chardonnay Mt. Harlan
The winery offers 34 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This estate is part of the Duckhorn Wine Company.
It is ranked in the top 85 of the estates of California.
It is located in Central Coast in the region of California

The Winery Calera is one of the world's great estates. It offers 34 wines for sale in of Central Coast to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Calera wines

Looking for the best Winery Calera wines in Central Coast among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Calera wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Calera wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Calera

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Calera

How Winery Calera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pork gyros, salmon steaks with lentils or cream and tuna quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Calera

On the nose the white wine of Winery Calera. often reveals types of flavors of cream, non oak or chard and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, floral or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Calera. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Calera

  • 2017With an average score of 4.05/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.79/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Calera.

  • Chardonnay
  • Viognier
  • Aligoté

Discovering the wine region of Central Coast

The wine region of Central Coast is located in the region of California of United States. We currently count 843 estates and châteaux in the of Central Coast, producing 1597 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Central Coast go well with generally quite well with dishes .

The top red wines of Winery Calera

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Calera

How Winery Calera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of southern beef meatballs, calf sweetbread with mushrooms or aiguillettes of duck with auvergne blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Calera

On the nose the red wine of Winery Calera. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earth or raisin and sometimes also flavors of mint, cinnamon or cheese. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Calera. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Calera

  • 1985With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 1997With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.29/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1996With an average score of 4.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Calera.

  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

The top pink wines of Winery Calera

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Calera

How Winery Calera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of alsatian wine pie, chicken drumstick with bacon or festive chinese fondue.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Calera

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Calera. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or spices and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Calera

  • 2010With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Calera.

  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Tiled

Said of the colour of an evolved wine that has taken on brick and orange hues.

The top sweet wines of Winery Calera

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Calera

How Winery Calera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of pork roulades with cream and mushrooms, baked sea bream or pho soup.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Calera

  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Calera.

  • Viognier

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Calera

Planning a wine route in the of Central Coast? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Calera.

Discover the grape variety: Aligoté

Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.

News about Winery Calera and wines from the region

The Duckhorn Portfolio purchases 107ha vineyard in Paso Robles

The luxury wine group bought Bottom Line Ranch in the San Miguel District for an undisclosed sum. It is exclusively planted with Cabernet, featuring seven top clones on three drought-tolerant rootstocks. Alex Ryan, chief executive and president of The Duckhorn Portfolio, said the sub-appellation’s climate is ideal for producing world-class Cabernet Sauvignon. ‘There is a reason why Paso Robles has the most Cabernet Sauvignon acreage of any appellation in California outside of Napa Valley,’ added ...

Californian Pinot Noir pioneer Josh Jensen passes away

Josh Jensen was famed for producing elegant, silky Pinot Noirs at Calera Wine Company on the Central Coast.  Leading wine critic Robert Parker Jr once described Calera – the company that Jensen founded in 1971 – as ‘California’s Romanée-Conti.’ Jensen completed undergraduate studies at Yale, but his love of fine wine blossomed while completing an MA in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He was a key member of the rowing crew at both universities, but he still found time to devel ...

Californian Pinot Noir pioneer Josh Jensen passes away

Josh Jensen was famed for producing elegant, silky Pinot Noirs at Calera Wine Company on the Central Coast.  Leading wine critic Robert Parker Jr once described Calera – the company that Jensen founded in 1971 – as ‘California’s Romanée-Conti.’ Jensen completed undergraduate studies at Yale, but his love of fine wine blossomed while completing an MA in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He was a key member of the rowing crew at both universities, but he still found time to devel ...

The word of the wine: Tiled

Said of the colour of an evolved wine that has taken on brick and orange hues.