Au Bon Climat is a U.S.-based winery, founded in 1982 by Adam Tolmach and Jim Clendenen in the early years of the Santa Barbara County wine industry.
[2] The objective to create tightly focused, balanced, nuanced wines with great aging potential has never changed, even as fads in California winemaking have come on gone.
Clendenen stayed true to his convictions and was proven correct as a more educated market came back to wines of balance.
[3] Through careful re-investment from its own production, Au Bon Climat grew to over 50,000 cases annually while earning world-wide acclaim.
A guiding light for the Santa Barbara County wine region since its infancy, Au Bon Climat and Clendenen were essential in elevating the quality of Burgundian varietals on the Central Coast, and key in generating international recognition of Santa Barbara County as a world class wine region.