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
$38.00 $33.00
Few producers in Burgundy have anything remotely as special planted as Jérôme Fornerot. That’s every year. But with the idelly warm weather of 2022, his old vine holdings in St Aubin, Santenay, and Maranges’ top sites thrived like never before. I had the privilege of tasting every white wine he made in 2022. I found all his wines downright fantastic at our visit last June and I was thrilled when he agreed to release a bit of the Bourgogne Blanc to the U.S. for the very first time.
This special wine is sourced from 50 year old vines in Santenay, the Bourgogne is vibrant and fresh, with a complex aromatic profile, a juicy mid-palate and a beautifully balanced, harmonious finish that has a touch of saline and leaves you wanting more. Simply put, his brand new 2022 Bourgogne Blanc is elite. It’s an electric white Burgundy, with a limestone-laced aromatic profile of green apple, pear and hazelnut.
Refined and high-toned, the pure, delicious fruit that is a hallmark of this terrific vintage, finishes long and fresh, with a mile-long mineral streak.
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It’s hard to beat a great value white wine and this one is a at least a cut above the rest. One prominant industry insider called the 2022 edition, “the best white wine by any within $20/cs of this price.” It’s super crisp with a great mineral streak, and was carefully picked by hand when the temperature is coolest and is kept cool all the way into the press. From there, the effect of the mineral soil takes over, providing great finesse and freshness in every bottle. This white blend has great backbone and a lot of juicy fruit coming through behind aromas of flowers and stone fruits. At this price, it’s a no brainer.
The newly released Riesling Feinherb 2021 is a lively, juicy wine with an elegant bouquet of minerals, wet stone and ripe fruit. On the palate, the wine’s slight off-dry component is beautifully balanced by the steely acidity typical of the Mosel. Because this is freshly released, the fruit is vibrant and succulent and it comes in somewhere between off-dry and semi-sweet. It’s a great example of Riesling, especially at the price.
91 Points, Tasting Panel – 90 Points, Wine Spectator – 90 Points, Wine & Spirits
If you haven’t had one of the wines of Ancient Peak’s rising star Amanda Wittsrom-Higgins, then you need to change that immediately. Her 2022 Santa Margarita Ranch Sauvignon Blanc is excellent – a racy and seamless mix of stone fruit and tropical flavors and aromas, that make it super approachable and easy to drink and also a must-have for the summer. Isolated from any other vineyards and right by the sea, this is a sea-kissed, juicy and even salty Sauvy B that will win over the crowd and disappear in a hurry.
Just in time, we got back Vincent Ricard’s all-time great white wine bargain. This is a crisp, clean and flat out delicious Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc. The protege to the Silex-style of Dagueneau – who over the last 15 years has produced flawless and beloved white wines that at last count were on the wine lists of over 36 Michelin-starred restaurants. This is a great house white and one that can surely hold its own with just about everything on the table.