The man with the studded suit jacket, Josh Jensen is a Californian wine legend. A former Oxford rowing blue, he spent time with none other than Domaine de la Romanee-Conti and Dujac after leaving university (and still goes cycling with Aubert de Villaine and Jacques Seysses every year). Converted to the joys of Burgundy, he returned to his native California to seek out his own limestone soils on which to recreate the Cote d'Or. Eventually he stumbled across Mount Harlan, an hour or so south of San Francisco, where he has spent the last thirty years turning it into one of the world's finest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vineyards. Viognier was to follow a few years later after Josh fell in love with the grape working at Chateau Grillet in the Rhone, but Pinot remains his first love with Robert Parker calling him "one of the most compelling Pinot Noir specialists not only in the new world, but on planet earth."
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