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
$25.00
Twenty years ago, Erin Nuccio was in Washington D.C. working at a high-end wine retailer selling to politicians, high powered businessmen and suits with deep pockets working on K Street. As you can imagine, all kinds of requests came in for some of the hardest to procure bottles in the world, from Bordeaux to Burgundy to Vintage Port. That granted him access to some of the most expensive bottles from Italy and France as well as the elite Napa Cult wines. But even with all the glitz and glamour being poured around him, he couldn’t help but shake his obsession with the wines coming out of Oregon.
He and his wife Jordan decided to move to the West coast to pursue his passion. He studied in Northern California and wrote to wineries up and down the Oregon Coast hoping to break through in the fast growing region. By chance, he met Russ Raney, a winemaker who founded Evesham Wood winery in the Eola-Amity Hills (Bethel Heights, Cristom) in the 1980s. Russ was an apprentice under the guidance of Henri Jayer of Vosne-Romanee, so his education in Burgundian varietals was second to none. He taught Erin everything he knew and a friendship and partnership was born.
In 2007, Erin made his first vintage of Haden Fig wines with help from his friend and mentor. The wines turned out to be exceptional. The next year he doubled his production in what would also turn out to be a landmark 2008 vintage in Oregon. The rest you can say is history.
Erin quickly began racking up accolades and media attention as he established himself as a name to watch in Oregon. Around the same time, his mentor Russ had decided to retire and live in France full time, so he sold Evesham Wood to his student. Instead of merging the two wineries, Erin lets the two sister wineries stand alone. At Evesham Wood, he would follow the playbook and continue in Russ’ tradition. At Haden Fig, he could express himself more, experiment more with native yeast and push his winemaking boundaries to new heights.
Erin’s 2018 is one of the end products of these new heights. This wine is an absolute bombshell, sourced from some of the best vineyard sites in Oregon. I’d say more about it but really Paul Gregutt from Wine Enthusiast Magazine says what I want, “holds its own with many Chardonnays costing three times as much”, it’s a “delicious wine with exception depth of flavor” and it 100% “excels on all levels”.
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94 Points (Editors’ Choice), Wine Enthusiast
Haden Fig is a sister label to Evesham Wood. This stunningly good effort could hold its own with many Oregon Chardonnays costing three times as much. Tangy grapefruit, lemon and lime aromas open into a sappy and delicious wine with exceptional depth of flavor. There’s a pretty floral top note and a generous mouthfeel. The wine was fermented in neutral barrels with native yeast, went through full malolactic and excels on all levels.
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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.
92 Points, Wine Enthusiast
This is a huge favorite of folks in the Red Bank area. It’s a bold, unapologetic Chardonnay with juicy notes of peach, lemon sorbet, baking spice and vanilla with a rich, creamy middle and plenty of natural acidity to balance it out. The lemon vanilla finish is perhaps the wine’s calling card or the sheer drinkability of it all. Either way, it’s a Chard that people adore. It’s no wonder Wine Enthusiast called this, “a big win for fans of this bold style”.
From just west of Sancerre, Vincent’s vines are tended organically in flint-laden, calcareous soil which lends a great brightness to the wine. The wine is crisp and aromatic Sauvignon, and is a superb choice for a “cocktail” wine, as an aperitif or to accompany just about anything from sea.
2022 was an absolutely perfect vintage in this respect and unfortunately, I think it will be one of the last, if not THE last. As winegrower Jean-Marc Brocard reported to Decanter: “When we taste the wines, we feel that the balance between acidity and ripeness is very good. It’s a classic style of Chablis. In the end, even after such a heat during summertime, we stay in a cool year reference.” He also alluded to the ageability of the vintage, saying “Let’s give them time, we must let nature do its work.”
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