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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
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
$16.00
Pizza demands juicy, fresh wine and time and time again, I find myself reaching for anything Cristina Brunori makes. A world-class producer of Tuesday nighters, her old vines, mineral soil, and the temperate winds of the Adriatic all help produce vibrantly flavored grapes. She says her job is to not mess up what Mother Nature is so good at making.
Brunori wines always represent great bang for the buck. Very rarely can find such pristine fruit and food friendliness in a $16 bottle of wine.
Cristina and her family grow Sangiovese and Montepulciano in the Marches, a spectacularly beautiful spot in Italy right on the Adriatic coast. It’s an area often missed by American tourists, too far from Tuscany, Venice or Rome to ever make it there in the same trip. But, the landscape is beautiful, the fish and produce out of this world. The pizza is not too bad either.
When the Brunori make pizza in their 150 year old wood fired oven, they drink their Rosso Piceno, a bowl of berries with just the right touch of Italian rusticity. You should too. The 2018 just hit my cellar, it’s a terrific Tuesday nighter, get it into your pizza rotation ASAP!
Brunori wines always represent great bang for the buck. Very rarely can find such pristine fruit and food friendliness in a $16 bottle of wine.
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Your go to pizza wine– also great with fresh fish or a meat and cheese board.
Louis Boillot made some of the best wines I’ve tasted in Burgundy from 2017, with a rare combination of aromatic lift, concentration, and structure. The Gevrey Chambertin is a classic; intensely fruity with a mineral streak a mile long. This wine rivals the quality of a premier cru at a ‘villages’ price.
Xavier Vignon is a wizard– a mad scientist. He is constantly tinkering with every aspect of his winemaking process, never content with his work from the vintage before. Thanks to his tireless dedication, everything he makes is always spectacular. This, his flagship wine is the always the finest example from his impressive collection.
Parker’s Wine Advocate says that Xavier’s 100% packs “a metaphorical ton of super ripe fruit into its effusive aromas”. I think it’s just a great wine that’s a phenomenal value. It’s pretty much a no brainer. Only buy a few bottles and you’ll regret it. This is a case buy.
Winemaker Emeric Petit’s 2016 Chateau Tournefeuille Lalande de Pomerol coaxes complex aromas and deep flavors of black fruit with a mineral backbone that keeps the wine fresh and a candidate for long aging, just like his more expensive neighbor (Ch. Petrus) right across the way. An amazing value red bordeaux!
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