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Offsite Tastings*

Candela Prol, highly experienced certified wine educator and friend of the shop, is available for tastings and training for private and corporate events. For rates and other inquiries, please contact her at candelaprol@gmail.com .

*Offsite events are contracted to and coordinated by a 3rd party, and are in no way affiliated with Chambers Street Wines.

Tastings & Events

Friday, August 23

Jeff Paradiso Pours Fongoli

5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM

Friday, October 4

Please welcome the author of "Wines of the French Alps" Wink Lorch! Join us for an informative tasting of Savoie wines and book signing!

5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM

Featured Articles

Drinking Old Wine
Many of our favorite wines have been old bottles. While the great majority of wines are made to be consumed within a couple of years of their production, the relatively few wines that are intended to age can offer absolutely magical tasting experiences. We are pleased to offer older wine

Decanting Wine
The following will GREATLY enhance your pleasure with a bottle of older wine. It may sound like a hassle, but it’s really not so bad, and well worth the trouble. Basic Wine Decanting 101 There is nothing complicated or mysterious about this process; just follow these simple instruct

New from the Jura: Les Granges Paquenesses!
Loreline Laborde is living the fantasy many city dwellers have during rush hour: fleeing the city to live a quiet life in harmony with nature. After completing her formal studies in viticulture, Loreline left the bustling city of Montpellier to make wine in the undulating foothills of Tourmont, a vi

Broc Cellars Rocks!
Based out of Berkeley, California, Broc Cellars is an exciting winery, headed by winemaker Chris Brockway, that focuses on offbeat wines from intriguing and often much older vineyards. Their winemaking process uses only native yeasts with minimal doses of SO2 at bottling. These wines

New Arrivals from Bordeaux
With the winter coming, what better than to drink beautiful full bodied red Bordeaux with hearty meals. Our new arrivals are exciting: all certified organic or biodynamic, these wines represent the true characteristics of traditional Bordeaux, offering vibrant minerality, great structure,&

Don Rafael López de Heredia (photo from Lopez de Heredia website)

Lopez de Heredia

Since its founding in 1877, Bodega R. Lopez de Heredia has produced the benchmark wines of the Rioja region. For the past 142 years, the estate's wines have represented Rioja's unique style and terroir to the world. Unlike the vast majority of estates and cooperatives in the region, the estate has remained continuously family-owned, and only ever produced wines from grapes within the Rioja DOC. These wines are well suited to cellaring, but approachable and exciting to drink now.

The wines on offer today are the produce of four vineyards: Viña Tondonia, El Bosque, Viña Cubillas, and Viña Zaconia. Each vineyard is planted with the traditional grape varieties of Rioja: the red grapes Tempranillo, Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Graciano in the Tondonia, El Bosque, and Cubillas vineyards; and the white grapes Viura and Malvasia in the Viña Zaconia and the Viña Tondonia.

The Viña Tondonia, a more than 100 hectare assemblage of vineyards acquired by the estate in 1913, is situated on a large meander of the river Ebro for which it is named (from the Latin rotundus "round"). This is the largest vineyard owned and worked by the Lopez estate, and the grapes are used in the production of both white and red Reserva wines, and in exceptional years a small number of Gran Reserva bottles.

The 15 hectare El Bosque vineyard is located a kilometre away from the winery in Haro in the foothills of the Sierra Cantabria mountain range, and produces red Reserva wines and red Gran Reserva bottlings in the best years. The vineyard's position on southfacing slopes of clay and limestone allows for optimal ripening conditions that yield elegant and full-bodied wines.

The Viña Cubillas vineyard is situated on 40 hectares along the Ebro roughly four kilometers from Haro, at a slightly lower elevation than the El Bosque vineyard. The vineyard consists of two plots: "La Encina" and "La Monja." Both vineyards are planted exclusively with red grapes, and the wines produced are classified as crianza.

Viña Zaconia, uniquely planted with exclusively Viura, lies on steep south facing slopes along the Ebro. The 24 hectares are on poor, stony white soils that yield balanced and concentrated white wines.

Today we are excited to offer a limited selection of special Reserva and Gran Reserva wines from this celebrated estate. In addition, we want to highlight the exceptional value of the Tondonia Reserva and Viña Cubillo Crianza bottlings.

-Ben Fletcher

López de Heredia 2010 Rioja Viña Cubillo Crianza

A blend of 65% Tempranillo, 25% Garnacha and small amounts of Mazuelo and Graciano, with three years in barrel and extended bottle age prior to release, the very good 2010 vintage has yielded a classic and satisfying Cubillo. Ripe, forward aromas of black cherry, with tarragon, leather, and peppery earth; the palate is initially quite juicy, opening with air to reveal subtle herbal and smoky flavors.