Orders are available for pick-up at Restaurant Nicholas at 160 Route 35 South Red Bank, NJ 07701 during the following times:
Monday: 9:30-3:30; Tuesday – Friday: 9:15am – 9:00pm; Saturday: 11:00am – 9:00pm; Sunday: Closed
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If you are Pinot Noir enthusiast and you have yet to fill your cellar with some wines from Jesse Lange, then you are making a large mistake. For the last 15 years, no one has made as consistently exciting and elegant Pinot Noirs anywhere in the Willamette Valley.
Jesse has achieved everything one possibly could while at his family’s winery. He’s been on the cover of wine magazines, has been recognized as a Rising Star in American Pinot Noir and most recently was recognized as Winemaker of the Year at the 2022 Oregon Wine Awards.
If you’ve met Jesse (which I have), he is the last one to beat his chest and say look at me. Instead, the laid-back winemaker rather stay out of the light and go fly fishing as much as possible when not at the winery. But considering the guy happens to look a little bit like a movie star and makes exceptional wines, plenty of people are always looking.
His ‘Classique’ Pinot Noir is one of the very best Willamette Valley bottlings that you’re going to find anywhere. I have it on the same level as the likes of Bergstrom, Patricia Green, Lemelson and Ken Wright. He makes his wine utilizing his three estate vineyards all within the coveted Dundee HIlls appellation. Here, the rustic volcanic soils formed more than 14 million years ago, helps create some of the most expressive, elegant Pinot Noir in the world.
The 2022 vintage is a standout, with critics and wine enthusiasts alike praising its complexity and balance. On the nose, expect to find inviting aromas of red berries, floral notes, and a hint of spice, while the palate is greeted with flavors of ripe cherry, raspberry, and a touch of earthiness. The wine’s silky-smooth texture and vibrant acidity make it a joy to drink, with a long, lingering finish that will leave you craving more.
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93 Points, Decanter
A melange of bright berries mingles with perfectly paired spice in this fresh and zesty Willamette Valley blend from Lange. The palate offers mouthfuls of bright cranberries, blood orange zest and candied raspberry flavours. A savoury freshness follows with fresh wintergreen and white pepper—an alluring wine of freshness and verve with a laser-focused minerality and bright acid lift.
The newly released Fiancetto Howell Mt. Cabernet is a dream – a gorgeous, elegant dark-fruited Cabernet Sauvignon that is it picks up time in the glass, unfurls its full signature of cedar laced cassis nose and mid palate of chocolate-covered cherries and savory spices. Only four palates of this (224 cases) were made off a gorgeous, sprawling high elevation spot 1500 feet above sea level. It’s full and plush and finishes fresh and oh so long. The price is crazy for Howell Mountain Cabernet but that’s what Ry Richards and Fiancetto is all about.
Lydia Cornu’s newly released Haut-Côtes-du-Beaune is quintessential Red Burgundy. It’s made from super old vines and a low yield, with no new oak in the aging process. The wine is an absolute joy to drink– a bowl full of berries on the nose, high-toned, racy fruit in the mid palate with the structure and length that is the hallmark of Cornu-Camus wines. It’s delicious now and will be delicious in a decade. It’s the kind of Red Burgundy value that is ridiculous hard to match.
2016 happens to be one of the highest rated ever (98pts, Wine Spectator) so it was no surprise that this year’s made the cut. The 2016 Riserva which was just released, is an intense version steeped in complex layers of flavor. It’s compact and well built with a touch of leather that compliments dark cherries, fresh licorice and a hint of cocoa all framed on a mineral backbone.
This one comes from very old vines in eight different lieux-dits, with the largest portion coming from Le Fourneau. Harvest is all by hand, and this wine sees 18 months in barrels with only 10% new oak. Clement (rightfully) believes that keeping the oak primarily neutral here brings out the most authentic and intense expression of his Pinot Noirs. Take a sip or two of this and you will know exactly what I mean.