G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 EGLY24 southern Italy

southern Italy

The fourth collaboration between Lagavulin and actor/woodworker Nick Offerman

Aux Thorey sits at the northern edge of Nuits-Saint-Georges

bottled without fining or filtration

Native ferment in neutral cooperage keeps everything transparent

G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 EGLY24 southern ItalyThomas 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