A Craft,
Small-
Batch
Aperitif
for the
Modern
Drinker
an innovative, new white aperitif
LAMBI is an innovative, new white aperitif wine made in California with a blend of global and local flavors like apples, lemons, oranges, cardamom, and (of course) grapes. Easy to dress up in a high proof cocktail or unwind in a lower abv rendition, LAMBI is packed with flavor, no matter the mix. And at 17% ABV, you’ll want to keep the drinks coming all night long.
Redefining the aperitif
I loved the promise of an aperitif wine – the low abv, flavor-forward, and endlessly sippable cocktails it can create (plus its long shelf life!) – but I wasn’t that impressed with the options on the market. I found the aperitifs available to me to be overly bitter, stale-tasting, or too sweet. For the old world, these ancient recipes might work just fine, but I craved something newer and less defined by convention. Ideally, I wanted an aperitif that I could sip solo just as easily as I could make a 50/50 cocktail.
A Blend of Local & Global Flavors
From my day job as a Fine Wine Consultant, I knew that aperitif wines were a broad category that followed a simple formula: wine + botanicals + neutral grape spirits = aperitif wine. I dug into my own personal history, and decided to combine Swedish and Californian flavors, having grown up in San Diego with a Swedish mom. I spent six months honing the recipe in my kitchen and pestering my friends to try my concoctions. After many, many batches, I finally got the long-awaited, “Hey! This is pretty good,” which (if you knew anything about my friends) was like hearing I had just won a James Beard Award.
The journey from that small batch in Brooklyn to the bottles available to you today was long and arduous, but I couldn’t be prouder to present LAMBI to the world and (hopefully) to you.
I hope you enjoy it as much and I do.
Xoxo,
Claire