Taking My Own Advice

Txakolina, the light and spritzy Spanish wine that I wrote about last week is widely available in the Garden State. When the temperature shot back into the 90s last weekend, I took my own advice and grabbed a bottle at my local retailer to enjoy with lightly grilled chicken, corn on the cob, and heirloom tomato salad plucked right from our garden.

The Ameztoi Getariako Txakolina 2008 was just what this wine geek needed. Nothing too heavy or requiring deep thought. Like the wine version of seltzer with lemon, it is light and crisp with citrus and mineral flavors—crushed seashells and lemon rind and perhaps even the slightest impression of salty air.

Amanti Vino in Montclair—my local retailer and former employer—also carries the Ameztoi rosé Txakolina—a wine I wrote about last year. Following are other New Jersey retailers from north to south that carry one or more Txakolina wines.


North
Berkeley Wine Company, Berkeley Heights
Buy Rite, Jersey City
Bayway World of Liquor, Elizabeth
Cool Vines, Princeton and Westfield
Gary’s Wine & Marketplace, Wayne
Linwood Wine Company, Fort Lee
Shoppers Wines, Union
Shop Rite Wines, Westfield
Sparrow Wine and Liquor, Hoboken
Stew Leonard’s Wines, Clifton, Springfield, and Paramus
Stirling Fine Wines, Stirling
Super Cellars, Ridgewood
Wine Legend, Livingston
Wine Library, Springfield
Wine Shop US, Short Hills
56 Degree Wine, Bernardsville

Central
Clinton Wine and Spirits, Clinton
Flemington Central Liquors, Flemington
Little Brothers Beverage Outlet, Flemington
Riverside Wines, High Bridge
Rumson Wine and Spirits, Rumson
Tewksbury Fine Wine and Spirits, Oldwick
Wine Chateau, Metuchen

South
Circle Liquors, Somers Point
Joe Canals, West Deptford
The Wine Concierge, Allenhurst
Traino’s Wine & Spirits, Marlton
Wine King, Manasquan

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