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
$22.00
Nicolas Thienpont may have come from some money, but the reputation he has built in his nearly forty years of winemaking, vineyard management and talent scouting has nothing to do with that. Sure, when Thienpont was getting started, it helped to have his parents purchase Chateau Puygueraud and put him in charge of winemaking duties.
But just because Nicolas had a leg (or two) up doesn’t explain his love and passion for wine, or explain why Chateau Pavie Macquin asked him a few years later to be their winemaker after seeing his success at Puygueraud and Château Laclaverie, the winery he started after he bought a few acres from his father’s vineyards at Puygueraud to start his own thing. It also doesn’t explain how in 1984, he recognized a talented young vineyard worker named Stéphane Derenoncourt and offered him a job underneath him at Pavie Macquin. Turns out, that guy can make wine.
Thienpoint would go on to make wine at Beausejour Duffau Lagarosse, Larcis Ducasse and Puygueraud for many years, but the one place that is the most special to him is his very own, “Chateau La Prade” which he bought in 2000, recognizing the unbelievable value in the Cotes de Bordeaux region before anyone else, and cashing in on an incredible property, with a limestone plateau ladened into the hillsides.
Armed with enough experience to last a lifetime, the perfect hand-selected property (that has since then gone up more than 30 times in value!), and winemaking abilities second to none, Nicolas consistently churns out succulent, juicy reds that critics and consumers alike adore.
In what is turning out to be a fantastic 2018 vintage in Bordeaux, it’s no surprise that Thienpont’s Chateau La Prade was awarded triple 93 point scores from Decanter, Parker’s Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator.
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91-93+ Points, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
The deep garnet-purple colored 2018 La Prade delivers pronounced baked cherries, mulberries and blackberry pie scents with nuances of rose hip tea, iron ore and fragrant earth. Full-bodied and richly fruited with loads of earth and floral sparks, it has a plush, velvety frame and provocative lift to the finish.
90-93 Points, Wine Spectator
Quite ripe, with dark plum and boysenberry notes, but this is focused, offering subtle spice and tobacco hints on the finish. Tasty and should be a great value.
93 Points, Decanter
This is great value here from a property that’s almost all on the limestone plateau whereas sibling estate Puygueraud has more clay in its soils, and you feel it in the different expressions of the vintage in both wines. In this one you get a touch more chalk and lightness to the tannins, a touch more salinity on the finish, and it’s altogether a fruit-forward but succulent and supple wine. Drinking Window 2021 – 2032
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100 Pts, International Wine Report – 98 Pts, Parker’s Wine Advocate – 98 Pts, James Suckling
“The 2020 Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is truly sensational. It begins with striking aromas of fresh blackberries, blueberries and dark plums that are laced with fresh spring florals, mocha, sweet exotic spices, graphite and gravel nuances all taking shape. The palate is full-bodied and displays a remarkable combination of power and elegance throughout. This is beautifully structured and extremely expressive, as it possesses outstanding depth and concentration all they way through the long, finessed finish. Year after year, the Columbia Valley Cabernet is one of the most impressive wines, and there is no exception here, as it combines all the wonderful qualities of the 2020 vintage from Quilceda Creek into one expression. This is fantastic already and readers will be in for a real treat, as this simply marvelous wine will continue to deliver the goods for years to come.”
#3 Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2021
96 Points, Parker’s Wine Advocate – 95 Points, Wine Spectator
We are one of the very few folks who have Wine Spectator’s #3 Wine of the Year. This is definitely not one to miss. The 2016 vintage showcases this prized vineyard in all its glory; notes of wild black fruit, thyme, mint, eucalyptus, and bay are lifted and enjoyed with the polished tannin and mouthwatering freshness of this wine. Regarded as one of the best vintages in the last few decades, the 2016 Martha’s Vineyard has been aged to perfection for immediate enjoyment at release and will continue to reward for the next 20+ years.
In the 2020 vintage in Gevrey-Chambertin, yields were super low and temperatures were hotter than most Burgundian winemakers are accustomed. Many picked too late when the sugars were high and the fruit really ripe, but that was not the play. Still, Ann remained as cool in those hot temps as she did so many years ago in Napa, concentrating more on acid levels than sugars and picking at just the right time. This wine is absolutely singing – it’s an age-worthy beauty that should be even better in 4-7 years.
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.
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