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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If you are Pinot Noir enthusiast and you have yet to fill your cellar with some wines from Jesse Lange, then you are making a large mistake. For the last 15 years, no one has made as consistently exciting and elegant Pinot Noirs anywhere in the Willamette Valley.
Jesse has achieved everything one possibly could while at his family’s winery. He’s been on the cover of wine magazines, has been recognized as a Rising Star in American Pinot Noir and most recently was recognized as Winemaker of the Year at the 2022 Oregon Wine Awards.
If you’ve met Jesse (which I have), he is the last one to beat his chest and say look at me. Instead, the laid-back winemaker rather stay out of the light and go fly fishing as much as possible when not at the winery. But considering the guy happens to look a little bit like a movie star and makes exceptional wines, plenty of people are always looking.
His ‘Classique’ Pinot Noir is one of the very best Willamette Valley bottlings that you’re going to find anywhere. I have it on the same level as the likes of Bergstrom, Patricia Green, Lemelson and Ken Wright. He makes his wine utilizing his three estate vineyards all within the coveted Dundee HIlls appellation. Here, the rustic volcanic soils formed more than 14 million years ago, helps create some of the most expressive, elegant Pinot Noir in the world.
The 2022 vintage is a standout, with critics and wine enthusiasts alike praising its complexity and balance. On the nose, expect to find inviting aromas of red berries, floral notes, and a hint of spice, while the palate is greeted with flavors of ripe cherry, raspberry, and a touch of earthiness. The wine’s silky-smooth texture and vibrant acidity make it a joy to drink, with a long, lingering finish that will leave you craving more.
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93 Points, Decanter
A melange of bright berries mingles with perfectly paired spice in this fresh and zesty Willamette Valley blend from Lange. The palate offers mouthfuls of bright cranberries, blood orange zest and candied raspberry flavours. A savoury freshness follows with fresh wintergreen and white pepper—an alluring wine of freshness and verve with a laser-focused minerality and bright acid lift.
At J Vineyards, Nicole is nothing short of a magician, making 30 different skus or more each vintage between her Pinots, Chardonnays, and Sparkling wines. For the vineyard’s flagship Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, up to 100 individual small lots are combined to make this great wine. Somehow, the blend is effortless–a quintessential RRV Pinot that has those soaring aromatics, bright red fruits, clove, and nutmeg spice with perfect balance.
With seemingly infinite access to some of the absolute very best vineyards in the most choice AVAs in the valley, the Wagner’s set out to make Quilt– a Cabernet blend from a patchwork of the top sites in Napa (Oakville, St Helena, Atlas Peak, Coombsville, Calistoga, and Howell Mountain.) The brand new 2021 edition is a beauty – deeply concentrated, rich and a truly show stopping Cabernet. It’s a dark, hedonistic blend that combines elegance with power and pairs the two together effortlessly.
The 2021 Napa Valley East side Cuvee is an instant classic. From the first whiff to the moment it hits the lips, its clear that this is a fabulously concentrated, serious wine: black in color, and featuring aromas of cassis, cedar and chocolate-tinged purple fruit. The mouthfeel is plush and voluptuous with a firm, solid finish that speaks to its potential for considerable aging.
The secret to Philippe’s tightly wound, complex Pinot Noir is a combo of ancient vines, natural farming techniques, and low yields. The wines are built to age, with incredible tension and length. And the secret to me securing his other-wordly 2017 old-vine Gevry-Chambertin can be chalked up to a great relationship and over a decade supporting superior Burgundian winemaking. The wine is scary good. The nose is wild, filled with spiced dark raspberries, red flowers, and baking spices. The palate is elegant and racy, with a dynamic tension that runs right through its minute-long finish. This is a high-toned, wound-up Pinot, that is starting to hit its prime and is really turning out to be a ‘must-have’ for true Burgundy lovers.