producerAu Bon Climat
Founded in 1982 by Jim Clendenen and Adam Tolmach, and housed inside Bien Nacido since. Clendenen ran it alone from 1990 and made Santa Barbara pinot noir something people ordered by name.
When the door opens
Nobody has published this one's days where this project could read them. That is a gap here, not a locked door — write ahead, and see the finder for the cellars that do publish.
Facts
| country | United States |
|---|---|
| established | 1982 |
| region | Santa Maria Valley, Santa Barbara County, California |
| address | Santa Maria, CA Cited |
| where | 34.9200, -120.2600 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Near here
Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.
- 0.9 km — Bien Nacido vineyard 👪 Family-held
- 1.4 km — Santa Maria Valley region
- 33.5 km — Sanford & Benedict vineyard
- 34.6 km — Sta. Rita Hills region
- 199 km — Santa Lucia Highlands region
- 208.7 km — Calera cellar
Its kin
personJim ClendenenWho ran it for four decades.and of this page it says: The winery he built and ran.vineyardBien NacidoThe vineyard it lives inside and buys from.and of this page it says: Jim Clendenen's winery, on the property.regionSanta Maria ValleyThe valley it argued for.and of this page it says: Jim Clendenen's winery, built inside Bien Nacido.storyTri-tip over red oakBeef and pinot out of one valley — the long version.
Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.