Our flagship wine: 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Cabernet Franc, 4% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot, and 2% Malbec from our estate vineyards on Chalk Hill.
The 2017 is one of our bigger, riper vintages, but this wine retains its elegance and will age well. Enjoyable now, particularly at the table, but laying some down will repay one’s patience for sure.
Our flagship wine: a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec & Petit Verdot from our estate vineyards on Chalk Hill. The Calluna Estate is a monumental wine in 2016.
“The finest wine I’ve tasted from this estate, it’s medium to full-bodied, concentrated, has building tannins, and considerable elegance and purity.”
Our flagship wine: a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec & Petit Verdot from our estate vineyards on Chalk Hill.
“…the finest young wine I have tasted from David Jeffrey since the stellar 2011 Calluna Estate... On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and shows off beautiful mid-palate depth, with outstanding focus and grip, good acids, seamless tannins and a very long, very young and impeccably balanced finish.”
Our flagship wine: a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec & Petit Verdot from our estate vineyards on Chalk Hill.
"Offering impossible depth, complexity, and savory detail, Calluna Estate’s revered, Cabernet-driven 2014 Chalk Hill Red firmly puts luxury Left Bank titans in their place. This is built to shatter expectations—and it’ll continue doing so over the next 10-20 years."
The 2012 vintage gave us a bounty of fine components to choose from for our Estate Red. We selected the final blend 8 months after harvest and its additional year+ of barrel aging allowed those components to marry into a wine of harmony and power.
"An elegant and beautiful wine with a deep ruby/purple color, Bordeaux-like minerality, crème de cassis, licorice, earth and spice. This is a beauty that should drink well for 15-20 years. Impressive.”
"The bouquet is simply stunning… On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and supremely elegant, with a great core of sweet fruit, strikingly soil-driven and perfectly balanced, with firm, ripe and integrated tannins, laser-like focus and a very, very long, refined and complex finish. Sheer brilliance!"
The Calluna Estate, our reserve wine, is my highest aspiration in winemaking – a Bordeaux blend of selected barrels from our estate. My goal is to have this wine stand with the best wines of Bordeaux and California. Intensity with balance, significant but well-integrated oak (60% new), true to its terroir.
