G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 Wine Bar | Featured Red herbaceous backbone

herbaceous backbone

representing nine generations of winemaking in one of Champagne's most storied Grand Cru villages

Great to have on hand

ferments the agave with wild yeasts in spring water

and subtle butter

G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 Wine Bar | Featured Red herbaceous backboneThomas 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