G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 070226CRISP A blend of aged Trinidad

A blend of aged Trinidad rums

turning steely and linear and saline instead of tropical

Ceps Nous is the exception

Ryan Deovlet's Chardonnay philosophy shines brightly in this Zotovich Family Vineyard expression

G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 070226CRISP A blend of aged TrinidadThomas 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