Au Bon Climat, Isabelle Pinot Noir, 2015

Au Bon Climat, Isabelle Pinot Noir, 2015Part of the elite "Blue Series", Isabelle is comprised of only the best cuvees each vintage. Consequently, it is consistently the top performing Pinot Noir year to year. Dark, rich, and layered, this regal wine is remarkable now, but will be even more integrated and complex in time. 1,600 cases produced.

There are aromas of intense black fruit which explode on the nose

red currants and ripe strawberries assembled with notes of black pepper

almost ink like hue

together with balanced day and night temperatures up to the harvest gives the wine a fresh acidity and ripe tannins

It is Trimbach's signature wine

The aftertaste is ample and very long

or hold for a very long time (James Suckling

The elegance and the harmonious body of this wine allow for accompaniments of well structured and composite dishes such as red meats

which meant a patch of scrubland

Bright red and garnet with a rim turning to brick showing its extended ageing in barrel and bottle

Tenuta Nuova means new property

which was bottled in March 2011