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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
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We were very fortunate to be able to snag this exclusive offer from one of the most trusted names in Napa Cab.
This is the flagship Cabernet Sauvginon bottling by the Frank Family Vineyards and is named as a tribute to Rich’s father, Hy Frank. The Frank Family has been a staple in the valley for over 100 years now. Hy was the true patriarch of this great winemaking project and the inspiration behind its beginnings. It’s always the most structured, age-worthy and dominant Cabernet, but it’s truly one to behold in the 2019 vintage especially.
This is tied for the highest this wine has ever been rated, equaling the lofty number from the heralded 2012 vintage. There’s so much to this Cabernet Sauvignon that makes it a very special wine to lay down for the next quarter to half century to come. Wine Advocate noted that it “leaps with vivacious scents of ripe blackberries, crème de cassis and boysenberries, plus nuances of chocolate mint, charcuterie and underbrush.” They also gave it a whopping 98-point score. That’s pretty spot on from my own tasting – plus I’d mention the incredibly silky, elegant structure of the wine with impeccable balance and no hard edges even at this very early stage in its wine life cycle.
“Year after year Frank Family Vineyards is one of the great overall lineups of wine that you will taste in the Napa Valley, first founded back in 1992 by Rich and Leslie Frank… The best wine that I tasted was the outrageously good 2019 Frank Family Vineyards ‘Patriarch’ Red Wine (OB, 97) which is dense, chewy and will shine on for decades to come.”
-Owen Bargreen
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98 Points, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Patriarch leaps with vivacious scents of ripe blackberries, crème de cassis and boysenberries, plus nuances of chocolate mint, charcuterie and underbrush. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has vibrant black fruits with exquisitely ripe, fine-grained tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long with loads of mineral and floral layers.
96 Points, Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Patriarch is similar to the Winston Hill release, yet perhaps a bigger wine. Notes of fresh plums, blueberries, spice, and tobacco leaf define the nose, and it picks up more bouquet and bay leaf nuances, as well as some chocolaty oak, with air. Beautiful on the palate, it has silky tannins, a great mid-palate, and just about flawless balance. It’s going to benefit from 2-4 years of bottle age, and I have no doubt it will be drinking beautifully in 20 years or more. There are a scant 500 cases produced.
96 Points, Parker’s Wine Advocate – 96 Points, Vinous – 96 Points,
“The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon is sublime. Bright and savory, with tons of energy, the 2019 captures all the personality of this tiny vineyard on Diamond Mountain. Dried rose petal, lavender, red plum, graphite and crushed rocks add layers of nuance to this mid-weight, classically built Cabernet from Dyer. In a word; superb.”
92 Points, Vinous – 91 Points, Wine Spectator
Feudo Montoni has been one of the best producers in Italy for literally hundreds of years, most notably for their work with Nero D’Avola grape in Sicily. It’s a gorgeous expression at such a good price. The 2020 “Lagnusa” is the perfect pizza or Thanksgiving wine with juicy black fruits, grippy tannins and a wonderful, fresh and herbaceous finish. Vinous Media gave the wine 92 points and raved, calling it “remarkably fresh yet long, leaving the mouth watering while still resonating on hints of blackberry.” You’re going to love this.
94 Points, Decanter – 93 Points, Parker’s Wine Advocate – 93 Points, James Suckling
Massolino’s inaugural effort is superb. Typical of the very finest Nebbiolo, floral elements dominate the nose, here violets & rose with a touch of dark candy sweetness. The tannins are obvious but supple and refined, making this wine a much more approachable in its youth than you might expect. The 94 point Decanter review is worth reading below. Like most other Barbarescos from top vineyard sites, I expect these wines to reach firmly into the three figures in no time.
Once again dialing up fruit from 1000-1500ft in elevation in the Dundee Hills, Chad’s 2021 is juicy, laser focused and roaring out of the gates. Chad tells me that similar wines (very similar wines) off this vineyard are raising their prices up to $55/bottle from $45 this year due to 2020’s lost year. But where most people are raising prices to recoup last year’s losses, the CHAD Pinot Noir price is somehow lower. A true gift from our favorite winemaker.
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