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Feature Article
Mount Harlan’s Natural Miracle
by Clark Smith
May 12, 2009
The average appellation has dozens of wineries making hundreds of wines. With a single winery, Calera Wine Company, and three varietals, Mount Harlan is part of a small club of micro-AVAs, most of which are confined by land area. But Mount Harlan encompasses over 7,000 acres, of which a scant 100 were planted by one man with a hellish commute. What is he doing in this punishing high desert no one else will live in? You guessed it – even by wine industry standards, Josh Jenson is nuts.
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