Pinot Grigio derives from a mutuato of Pinot nero, of which it preserves almost all features, except the color. It seems that the first Pinot came in Italy from Burgundy. This elegant Pinot Grigio is rich of floral flavor, 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 fish-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: 9-11° C, open the bottle just before serving
Cantinae Clara C’ is a premium brand winery founded by Clara Carpenè with a long history and a true legacy dating back 150 years. Clara C’ maintains a large production area just outside Valdobbiadene, the best Cru of the Prosecco world, where most of its brands including Clara C ’, Fiori di Prosecco, Fiori di Cartizze, Donnaclara, Feminine Prosecco, Brutissimo, Fiori Rosè 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 C’ Italian Pinot Grigio - $30 = 21.42%
TRF “Get the net!”- 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 I’m not the most reliable source.
Lab Rat here…surprise suprise…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 it…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 wasn’t a Sauvignon Blanc. It reminded me of similar wines - more on the less fruity/dry side of a Sauvignon Blanc. I didn’t taste much in the way of fruit, and definitely wouldn’t say sweet applied at all to this description. Not overly dry, no oaky taste at all. I don’t know alot about wines but they could’ve been 1st cousins in my opinion and I like this family. Maybe I need to give more Pinot Grigios a chance…another topic for another day. Light yellow in color and gone too soon in my opinion. A definite 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 itself…
The pop and pour didn’t 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 wife’s 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 couldn’t 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 weren’t 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. So… YMMV.
Last notes on the palette that we had were that the overall this wine is a good, easy drinker. It isn’t overly complex, and demonstrates a typical “Italian red wine” 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 you’re a fan of Pinot Grigio, you’re 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.
Can anyone provide a taste comparison of this wine to Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio ?
While SM Pinot is a good wine I don’t believe it deserves its cult like status & premium pricing.
@forlich I’ll 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. You’d think there would be a lab evaluation of this particular vintage. I suspect that’s 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 it’s obviously just one value, somewhere in that range. Hopefully there’s not that big a variation bottle-to-bottle or else something is wrong with the wine production steps…
Remember the g/L is NOT the same as % RS. It’s roughly 1/10, So 2 g/L I think of as 0.2%; that’s fairly dry and you wouldn’t perceive much “sweetness.” In contrast, a wine with 2% RS would be 5-10x as “sweet”, depending on if you believe the 2 or 4 g/L spec.
2019 Clara C’ Pinot Grigio
Tasting Notes
Specs
What’s 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 C’ 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 C’ Italian Pinot Grigio - $30 = 21.42%
TRF “Get the net!”- 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 I’m not the most reliable source.
Lab Rat here…surprise suprise…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 it…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 wasn’t a Sauvignon Blanc. It reminded me of similar wines - more on the less fruity/dry side of a Sauvignon Blanc. I didn’t taste much in the way of fruit, and definitely wouldn’t say sweet applied at all to this description. Not overly dry, no oaky taste at all. I don’t know alot about wines but they could’ve been 1st cousins in my opinion and I like this family. Maybe I need to give more Pinot Grigios a chance…another topic for another day. Light yellow in color and gone too soon in my opinion. A definite 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 itself…
The pop and pour didn’t 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 wife’s 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 couldn’t 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 weren’t 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. So… YMMV.
Last notes on the palette that we had were that the overall this wine is a good, easy drinker. It isn’t overly complex, and demonstrates a typical “Italian red wine” 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 you’re a fan of Pinot Grigio, you’re 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 it’s not working.
The slash image function is finding it unpalletable.
so other methods were employed.
@opiate2002 Nice review though.
“Other methods”, hmm. Somehow it magically got fixed! Now, how could that have happened???
Can’t neglect the classic:
@InFrom hah, yeah, I caught that in a re-read, as well as “complement” instead of “compliment”, but it was too late to fix them. C’est 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 don’t believe it deserves its cult like status & premium pricing.
@forlich I’ve no comparison to offer, but amen to the SM comment!
@forlich I’ll 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 I’ll give this one a roll.
I’m low on whites, and I enjoy an easy drinking Pinot, especially when it sounds like it’s 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. You’d think there would be a lab evaluation of this particular vintage. I suspect that’s 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 it’s obviously just one value, somewhere in that range. Hopefully there’s not that big a variation bottle-to-bottle or else something is wrong with the wine production steps…
Remember the g/L is NOT the same as % RS. It’s roughly 1/10, So 2 g/L I think of as 0.2%; that’s fairly dry and you wouldn’t perceive much “sweetness.” In contrast, a wine with 2% RS would be 5-10x as “sweet”, 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?