Au Bon Climat Hildegard
- White
- United States
- Santa Maria Valley
- Chardonnay
- Sémillon
- Tracked vintages
- 14
- Community notes
- 193
- Merchant offers
- 20
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002023 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 86/ 100193 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £29per 75 cl2023 vintage · 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- Drinking window
- 2018–2026drinking2015 · 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 21 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian White Blend.
- Body3.9 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity2.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness2.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, caramel, butterscotch
- Tree fruit · peach, apple, pear, apricot, melon
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit
- Earth · stone, honey, minerals, smoke, saline
- Yeast and lees · cream, oil, banana, yeast, cheese
- Ageing (non-oak) · nutty, toast, hazelnut, almond, brioche
Grapes: Chardonnay, Sémillon. 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.
- 202396critic£29 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- 202293criticunit not stated
- 202183drinkersunit not stated
- 202093critic£53 / 75cl12-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201984drinkers
- 201593critic
- 200592drinkers
- 200492drinkers
- 200395drinkers
- 200289drinkers
- 200190drinkers
- 200089drinkers
- 199989drinkers
- 199893drinkers
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2023
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2015
- drinking, window 2018–2026
- Lowest price
- 2023
- £29 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
Where to go next
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