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2021 Au Bon Climat, Isabelle, Pinot Noir, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
For laying down
Product: 20211224803
2021 Au Bon Climat, Isabelle, Pinot Noir, California, USA

Description

The 2021 follows on from the 2020 with a wonderfully exuberant, care-free character right from the initial impact on the nose.  Strawberry and a wealth of other red fruits abound, yet there’s a firm core there as well to give restraint as well as longevity.  Isabelle is in fact a “blend of the best barrels from the best vineyards” rather than a single-vineyard and deserves wholly its place alongside the more reserved Knox Alexander sibling. Ebullient yet intense this has a great future ahead.

Drink 2026-2038+

Tom Cave, Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd (October 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2021
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Full 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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