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2019 Au Bon Climat, La Bauge Au-dessus Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
Product: 20191175394
2019 Au Bon Climat, La Bauge Au-dessus Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, California, USA

Description

This wine is wonderfully expressive, oozing notes of rich chocolate, dark plum, and stewed strawberry. Highly complex and silky, with intense dark fruit enveloping your palate. It is not over-ripe and retains a lovely freshness alongside a long lingering finish. This wine will reward patience.

Hugo Dale, Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Sweet red cherries and strawberries dominate the nose of this wine, which has a lovely intensity and a really smooth mouthfeel. In typical ABC fashion, however, this isn’t over-rich. By contrast, despite the depth and concentration of flavour, it has great freshness, making it both a gentle and easy-to-enjoy wine. Morello cherries and macerated raspberries dominate the palate, completed by a fresh red fruit and stony mineral finish. Just lovely.

Drink 2023 - 2039

Catriona Felstead MW, Senior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Au Bon Climat

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Santa Maria Valley

Santa Maria Valley

Located in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Maria Valley is renowned for its exceptional wines and unique terroir. Its cool climate, influenced by the nearby Pacific Ocean, makes it ideal for growing premium Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes. Winemakers embrace minimal intervention and sustainable practices, allowing the true essence of the grapes and terroir to shine through in the wines.
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Au Bon Climat

The late Jim Clendenen founded Au Bon Climat (ABC) in 1982. He became famous for making pioneering wines from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on California’s Central Coast. He passed away in 2021 and is remembered as one of the most charismatic and influential people of his vinous generation.
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