Duckhorn Wine Company buys Central Coast Pinot pioneer Calera

Aug 15, 2017

(SFChronicle) - Napa Valley’s Duckhorn Wine Company has acquired Calera Wine Company, the pioneering Central Coast Pinot Noir producer. The sale includes the Calera brand, winemaking facility, tasting room, estate vineyards and all inventory. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

“I’m 73 and a half years old, and I’ve been doing this job for 42 years,” said Calera’s founder and owner Josh Jensen, noting that none of his three adult children had decided to join the family wine business. Without an heir, “I just wanted to make sure that when the day comes that Calera were to be sold, that I’d be able to be there to pick best of the best to carry on the baton. And I’m just delighted that Duckhorn was interested.”

Duckhorn wasn’t looking to buy a winery, said the company’s longtime president and CEO, Alex Ryan, but “when we happened to come across an extraordinary brand, we had no choice but to consider it.”

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