Pinot Grigio derives from a mutuato of Pinot nero, of which it preserves almost all features, except the color. It seems that the ļ¬rst Pinot came in Italy from Burgundy. This elegant Pinot Grigio is rich of ļ¬oral ļ¬avor, fruity taste and slightly spicy. The taste releases fullness and balance. Straw-yellow, almost coppery color, generally medium perfumed but considerably complex aromas. Noble with a strong texture and well rounded, sometimes it is slightly sweet, but always very fresh. It is a versatile product, it is particularly interesting for pairing with ļ¬sh-based dishes, baked vegetables and risotto. It is produced with only Pinot Grigio grapes from Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
Specs
Vintage: 2019
Varietal: Pinot Grigio
Alcohol: 12%
Sugar residual: 2-4 g/l
Serving temperature: 9-11Ā° C, open the bottle just before serving
Cantinae Clara Cā is a premium brand winery founded by Clara CarpenĆØ with a long history and a true legacy dating back 150 years. Clara Cā maintains a large production area just outside Valdobbiadene, the best Cru of the Prosecco world, where most of its brands including Clara C ā, Fiori di Prosecco, Fiori di Cartizze, Donnaclara, Feminine Prosecco, Brutissimo, Fiori RosĆØ and La Casa dei Fiori are stocked and produced.
They maintain partnerships with the top grapes and still wine producers, providing the finest quality inside Valdobbiadene. From a quality point of view: only the best grapes, directly from the source of the most prestigious Prosecco terroir in Valdobbiadene and Treviso province.
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
2019 Clara Cā Italian Pinot Grigio - $30 = 21.42%
TRF āGet the net!ā- I thought he meant she was acting crazy, like a rabid animal, and the net in question belonged to animal control. A literal net. Then again, the first few times I watched it, I thought he was saying get the hint, so maybe Iām not the most reliable source.
Lab Rat hereā¦surprise supriseā¦this Clara C - Italian Pinot Grigio was the just about the best thing I had all week. It was nice light white that paired well with just about everything I ate with itā¦and this week was a junk food week (canned pasta and cardboard pizza). This was not too dry, in fact I had to check and re-check the label from time to time to make sure this wasnātĀ a Sauvignon Blanc. It reminded me of similar wines - more on the less fruity/dry side of a Sauvignon Blanc. I didnāt taste much in the way of fruit, and definitely wouldnāt say sweet applied at all to this description. Not overly dry, no oaky taste at all. I donātĀ know alot about wines but they couldāve been 1st cousins in my opinionĀ and I like this family. Maybe I need to give more Pinot Grigios a chanceā¦another topic for another day. Light yellow in color and gone too soon in my opinion. A definiteĀ recommend buy if you like the Sauvignon Blanc family and some of their nearest (and dearest) cousins.
Thanks as always to the inimitable Casemates crew for the opportunity to rat for you all!
This time around, the wine came in plenty of time to rest in the cooler for a few days. We popped it in the fridge to bring the temperature down a few degrees before dinner, and we paired it with a light maple/ginger/soy glazed Hokkaido pumpkin and rice. Of course, we tried the wine first by itselfā¦
The pop and pour didnāt have much to it. We found that this PG needed to warm back up to around 55 degrees F (we started with it around 45 degrees) before it started to express itself.
The nose started as limestone (my wifeās take) and/or an unidentifiable minerality (my take), although I quickly noted some kind of tropical or citrus fruit on the nose. As the wine warmed up a bit, she felt that the fruit I was getting on the nose was likely pineapple. After she said that, I couldnāt smell anything but pineapple, so who knows - the power of suggestion!
I tried, but was not able to really taste the wine at this point because I had my three year old screaming at me and yanking on my legs while my wife tried talking to me about her day and I was trying to enjoy a nice meal with a glass of wine. Concentration was just not on the menu.
After my son went to bed tasting became possible. While colder (45-50 degrees), there was very little on the palette. As the wine reached 50-55 degrees a variety of flavors presented themselves.
My wife tasted a hint of melon. We both found a pronounced undercurrent of banana which was surprising but not unpleasant. Pineapple, notable minerality (we werenāt able to identify it with confidence, but kind of leaned towards limestone), and a characteristic that made both of us salivate quite a bit were also jointly identified.
As for the salivation, I felt like it was either a sour citrus/tropical characteristic or an almost chardonnay-like butteriness that was my trigger, while my wife felt like it was possibly an acidic quality to the fruitiness that was driving it for her. Soā¦ YMMV.
Last notes on the palette that we had were that the overall this wine is a good, easy drinker. It isnāt overly complex, and demonstrates a typical āItalian red wineā balance of flavors and aromas. I generally like Italian reds, so this is complement in my opinion.
Based on my past experience I would call this a fairly typical expression of Pinot Grigio with some unique characteristics that set it apart. If youāre a fan of Pinot Grigio, youāre likely to enjoy this wine.
Last night we guessed that this would hit between $8-10 per bottle. IMO the case price is a good QPR.
@InFrom hah, yeah, I caught that in a re-read, as well as ācomplementā instead of ācomplimentā, but it was too late to fix them. Cāest la vie.
Dictation is a blessing and a curse. Damned homonyms.
Can anyone provide a taste comparison of this wine to Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio ?
While SM Pinot is a good wine I donāt believe it deserves its cult like status & premium pricing.
@forlich Iāll always remember having my first bottle of SM out on a date at a restaurant in '93. It was so good, and so cheap back then (I think the bottle in the restaurant cost something in the low $20-$30 range). Still like seeing the bottle in stores, but stopped buying it when the price took off a few decades ago.
Wanted to point out that it seems a bit odd to say
(AbV 12%, RS 2-4 g/L)
because 2-4g/L is a pretty broad range. Youād think there would be a lab evaluation of this particular vintage. I suspect thatās a generic range that may apply to the product over many years time, not this vintage. And we know at least U.S. laws are pretty lax for AbV %,I think allowing +/- 1.5%, so a broad description like this is likely to be good for previous and future years. (though there is no law about specifying RS)
Anyway 2-4g/L sounds about right, but itās obviously just one value, somewhere in that range. Hopefully thereās not that big a variation bottle-to-bottle or else something is wrong with the wine production stepsā¦
Remember the g/L is NOT the same as % RS. Itās roughly 1/10, So 2 g/L I think of as 0.2%; thatās fairly dry and you wouldnāt perceive much āsweetness.ā In contrast, a wine with 2% RS would be 5-10x as āsweetā, depending on if you believe the 2 or 4 g/L spec.
2019 Clara Cā Pinot Grigio
Tasting Notes
Specs
Whatās Included
6-bottles:
Case:
Price Comparison
Not for sale online, $216/case MSRP
About The Winery
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Oct 21 - Monday, Oct 25
Clara Cā Italian Pinot Grigio
6 bottles for $69.99 $11.66/bottle + $1.33/bottle shipping
Case of 12 for $109.99 $9.17/bottle + $1/bottle shipping
@ilCesare https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=4102100
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
2019 Clara Cā Italian Pinot Grigio - $30 = 21.42%
TRF āGet the net!ā- I thought he meant she was acting crazy, like a rabid animal, and the net in question belonged to animal control. A literal net. Then again, the first few times I watched it, I thought he was saying get the hint, so maybe Iām not the most reliable source.
Lab Rat hereā¦surprise supriseā¦this Clara C - Italian Pinot Grigio was the just about the best thing I had all week. It was nice light white that paired well with just about everything I ate with itā¦and this week was a junk food week (canned pasta and cardboard pizza). This was not too dry, in fact I had to check and re-check the label from time to time to make sure this wasnātĀ a Sauvignon Blanc. It reminded me of similar wines - more on the less fruity/dry side of a Sauvignon Blanc. I didnāt taste much in the way of fruit, and definitely wouldnāt say sweet applied at all to this description. Not overly dry, no oaky taste at all. I donātĀ know alot about wines but they couldāve been 1st cousins in my opinionĀ and I like this family. Maybe I need to give more Pinot Grigios a chanceā¦another topic for another day. Light yellow in color and gone too soon in my opinion. A definiteĀ recommend buy if you like the Sauvignon Blanc family and some of their nearest (and dearest) cousins.
@amehzinggrace great rattage - thank you
@amehzinggrace I can totally see where this came off a bit like a SB - definitely agree with that impression!
Hi all,
Thanks as always to the inimitable Casemates crew for the opportunity to rat for you all!
This time around, the wine came in plenty of time to rest in the cooler for a few days. We popped it in the fridge to bring the temperature down a few degrees before dinner, and we paired it with a light maple/ginger/soy glazed Hokkaido pumpkin and rice. Of course, we tried the wine first by itselfā¦
The pop and pour didnāt have much to it. We found that this PG needed to warm back up to around 55 degrees F (we started with it around 45 degrees) before it started to express itself.
The nose started as limestone (my wifeās take) and/or an unidentifiable minerality (my take), although I quickly noted some kind of tropical or citrus fruit on the nose. As the wine warmed up a bit, she felt that the fruit I was getting on the nose was likely pineapple. After she said that, I couldnāt smell anything but pineapple, so who knows - the power of suggestion!
I tried, but was not able to really taste the wine at this point because I had my three year old screaming at me and yanking on my legs while my wife tried talking to me about her day and I was trying to enjoy a nice meal with a glass of wine. Concentration was just not on the menu.
After my son went to bed tasting became possible. While colder (45-50 degrees), there was very little on the palette. As the wine reached 50-55 degrees a variety of flavors presented themselves.
My wife tasted a hint of melon. We both found a pronounced undercurrent of banana which was surprising but not unpleasant. Pineapple, notable minerality (we werenāt able to identify it with confidence, but kind of leaned towards limestone), and a characteristic that made both of us salivate quite a bit were also jointly identified.
As for the salivation, I felt like it was either a sour citrus/tropical characteristic or an almost chardonnay-like butteriness that was my trigger, while my wife felt like it was possibly an acidic quality to the fruitiness that was driving it for her. Soā¦ YMMV.
Last notes on the palette that we had were that the overall this wine is a good, easy drinker. It isnāt overly complex, and demonstrates a typical āItalian red wineā balance of flavors and aromas. I generally like Italian reds, so this is complement in my opinion.
Based on my past experience I would call this a fairly typical expression of Pinot Grigio with some unique characteristics that set it apart. If youāre a fan of Pinot Grigio, youāre likely to enjoy this wine.
Last night we guessed that this would hit between $8-10 per bottle. IMO the case price is a good QPR.
@opiate2002 Palate, not palette!
@ddeuddeg @opiate2002
/image Palate
/image Palette
@ddeuddeg, I was waiting for you to chime in!
Trying to get one of a shipping pallet, but for whatever reason itās not working.
The slash image function is finding it unpalletable.
so other methods were employed.
@opiate2002 Nice review though.
āOther methodsā, hmm. Somehow it magically got fixed! Now, how could that have happened???
Canāt neglect the classic:
@InFrom hah, yeah, I caught that in a re-read, as well as ācomplementā instead of ācomplimentā, but it was too late to fix them. Cāest la vie.
Dictation is a blessing and a curse. Damned homonyms.
Can anyone provide a taste comparison of this wine to Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio ?
While SM Pinot is a good wine I donāt believe it deserves its cult like status & premium pricing.
@forlich Iāve no comparison to offer, but amen to the SM comment!
@forlich Iāll always remember having my first bottle of SM out on a date at a restaurant in '93. It was so good, and so cheap back then (I think the bottle in the restaurant cost something in the low $20-$30 range). Still like seeing the bottle in stores, but stopped buying it when the price took off a few decades ago.
@salpo Wife is starting to prefer whites again (really enjoyed Wine Smith Pinot Gris) so Iāll give this one a roll.
Iām low on whites, and I enjoy an easy drinking Pinot, especially when it sounds like itās got some unique characteristics. In for a case.
Wanted to point out that it seems a bit odd to say
(AbV 12%, RS 2-4 g/L)
because 2-4g/L is a pretty broad range. Youād think there would be a lab evaluation of this particular vintage. I suspect thatās a generic range that may apply to the product over many years time, not this vintage. And we know at least U.S. laws are pretty lax for AbV %,I think allowing +/- 1.5%, so a broad description like this is likely to be good for previous and future years. (though there is no law about specifying RS)
Anyway 2-4g/L sounds about right, but itās obviously just one value, somewhere in that range. Hopefully thereās not that big a variation bottle-to-bottle or else something is wrong with the wine production stepsā¦
Remember the g/L is NOT the same as % RS. Itās roughly 1/10, So 2 g/L I think of as 0.2%; thatās fairly dry and you wouldnāt perceive much āsweetness.ā In contrast, a wine with 2% RS would be 5-10x as āsweetā, depending on if you believe the 2 or 4 g/L spec.
@pmarin
You are thinking too much, iirc at least half of the french or Italian wines I buy say 11-14 percent abv even a lot of the big names.
This is my favorite wine and I opened my last bottle tonight. Any suggestions on where to get more?
Or suggestions for a similar?