G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 070226CRISP and Matt Niess picks and

and Matt Niess picks and ferments the whole lot together

mostly Pinot Noir

A blend of aged Trinidad rums

kumquat and almond

turning steely and linear and saline instead of tropical

G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 070226CRISP and Matt Niess picks andThomas Jefferson tasted Nebbiolo in Piedmont in 1787 and described something that sounds nothing like Barolo: light, fresh, faintly sweet, a little fizzy. Two centuries later the Sacramento grocer Darrell Corti passed that quote to his old friend Aldo Vaira, and the Clare J. C. was born J for Jefferson, C for Croce Giovan Battista Croce, the Savoy court jeweler whose 1606 treatise on making Chiaretto di Nebbiolo inspired the wine. (It was called