G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 070226CRISP Ryan Deovlet's Chardonnay philosophy shines

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

kumquat and almond

and Matt Niess picks and ferments the whole lot together

A blend of aged Trinidad rums

Ceps Nous is the exception

G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 070226CRISP Ryan Deovlet's Chardonnay philosophy shinesThomas 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