Au Bon Climat "Isabelle" Pinot Noir
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Au Bon Climat "Isabelle" Pinot Noir - 2020

Item # 13162 750mL

Isabelle is only made in excellent years and is a blend of the best barrels from the best vineyard sites from Au Bon Climat. This is the type of Santa Barbara Pinot Noir that is full-bodied, structured and could easily age for many years to come.
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$431.94 $388.75/ Case of 6
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Color
Red
Vintage
2020
Country
USA
Region
California
Sub-Region
Santa Barbara
Producer
Au Bon Climat
Grape Variety
Pinot Noir
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"Isabelle" is a blend of the best of the best cuvées from six vineyards. A wine with an incredible level of detail, this is not a Cali fruit blockbuster, it’s an ethereal Pinot expression with both new and old world sensibilities. Aromas of berry preserves on whole-wheat, fried sage, and bruised thyme. On the palate, acidity provides clarity to cherry compote and roast raspberry, which lead us to a finish of strawberry fields forever. Another example of an Au Bon Climat wine that can go up against high-end Burgundy without losing its sense of place. Give it some time to open up on your journey together. My bottle made fast friends with salmon ‘en papillote’ with sliced zucchini and fennel bulb. This wine could easily lay down for ten, fifteen years, but it’s so good now I’m not sure I have the strength to wait ten or fifteen minutes.

- SG

About the Producer

Santa Barbara County, California, USA Jim Clendenen graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with High Honors in Pre-Law in 1976. He discovered the world of wine suring his junior year abroad in 1974, while turning 21 in France.. After graduation, a one month stay in both Burgundy and Champagne convinced him to attempt a career in wine rather than continue on to law...

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Glossary

Pinot Noir

The Burgundy region of northeastern France is the historic home of the Pinot Noir grape, and is the source of the world’s greatest examples. Here one finds renditions of Pinot Noir that deliver power with finesse and grace, wines that have unimaginable depth of flavor, yet are perfectly balanced and ephemeral in the mouth - in short, wines that deliver all that Pinot Noir has to offer. Terroir, the concept that wines from a specific region have unique and identifiable traits, is intricately...

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California

California makes more wine than any other state in the United States. Not only does the state grow a variety of noble grape varieties like Pinot Noir, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, there are also plantings of lesser-known varieties such as Nebbiolo, Roussanne and Mourvèdre to name just a few.

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