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2020 Berry Bros. & Rudd Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir by Au Bon Climat, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - mature
Product: 20208006404
2020 Berry Bros. & Rudd Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir by Au Bon Climat, California, USA

Description

I loved the great, late Jim Clendenen's Au Bon Climat burgundy-aping wines and this own-label bottling for Berry bros is a delightful sip, bursting with brilliant, bright, zingy red cherry fruit.

Jane MacQuitty, The Times (November 2023)

We are delighted to work once again with the brilliant team at Au Bon Climat for this delicious Californian Pinot Noir. Coming from the often fog-covered hills of Santa Barbara, the wines of Au Bon Climat always have a freshness and elegance to offset their ripe fruit flavours.

This wine is no exception and is a wonderful introduction to the vinous treasures this fabled estate produces. A beautiful wine with tannins gentle enough to match fish dishes or to accompany poultry, pork or pungent cheeses.  

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Tasting note

Fresh red morello cherries dominate the nose, supported by strawberries and a lift of musky perfume. The wine is generous and ripe, with an enticing clove-and-cinnamon spice character; it feels relaxed and gentle. Fine tannins leave a very slight grip on the long, pure and refreshing finish.

Drink now to 2028

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

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity Ready - mature
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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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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