Au Bon Climat Chardonnay Nuits-Blanches au Bouge
- White
- United States
- Santa Maria Valley
- Chardonnay
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 9
- Community notes
- 129
- Merchant offers
- 77
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 86/ 100129 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £26per 75 cl1999 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
- Drinking window
- 2020–2032peak2017 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 86 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Santa Barbara County Chardonnay White.
- Body4.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.3 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness2.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, caramel, butterscotch
- Tree fruit · pear, apple, apricot, melon, peach
- Earth · honey, minerals, stone, smoke, chalk
- Citrus · lemon, citrus, lime, orange, lemon zest
- Yeast and lees · cream, banana, oil, cheese, bread yeast
- Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, grilled pineapple, lychee, mango
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2023unit not stated
- 2022unit not stated
- 202195criticunit not stated
- 201994critic
- 201796critic
- 2002unit not stated
- 199989critic£26 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
- 199891drinkersunit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2017
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2017
- peak, window 2020–2032
- Lowest price
- 1999
- £26 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | £26 | 89 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1210233