G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 EGLY24 butterscotch laden aroma and vanilla

butterscotch laden aroma and vanilla rich mouthfeel

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

It is fine on the palate

vines over 60 years old

G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo J.C. Clare 2025 EGLY24 butterscotch laden aroma and vanillaThomas 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