Get 10% off the purchase price with every order of 12 bottles or more of still wine not already on sale. The savings add up!
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.
It’s conventional wisdom (repeated to the point of cliché) that each of the towns in the Barolo zone produce wine of specific character, a reflection of local geology and other factors. And generally speaking an educated taster has a decent chance of telling Serralunga from La Morra, and so on. But the hand of the winemaker matters just as much, and I’m not at all confident that I would know that the G. Rinaldi Brunate was from the same commune as, say, the Altare Arborina. In any case, the following wines are organized by town – another way to parse a list rich in classic wine. Jamie Wolff
*The towns and producers (listed in this offer - there are others located there!) are Barolo: Barale, Giacomo Borgogno, Brezza, Marchesi di Barolo, Bartolo Mascarello; Castiglione Falletto: Cavallotto, Ceretto, Domenico Clerico, Parusso, Vietti; Monforte: Aldo Conterno, Giacomo Conterno, Paolo Conterno, Fenocchio, Pianpolvere Soprano; La Morra: Altare, Cordero di Montezemolo, Marcarini, Oddero Fratelli; Verduno: Alessandria, Burlotto; Serralunga: Cappellano, Fontanafredda, Massolino, Guido Porro; Alba: Einaudi, Franco Fiorina. *(We are working to correct a web glitch that makes it very difficult to insert descriptive text in a list of wines, so please excuse this alternate approach).
One other important note: the wines are here, but will not be ready for pick-up or delivery until Tuesday, May 2nd.
Cordero di Montezemolo 1971 Barolo Monfalletto
A consistently excellent wine — we've been lucky to get to taste this several times in the last few years. It needs a lot of time to breathe, and then it provides a classic example of fully mature Nebbiolo. Jamie Wolff
Oddero is one of just a handful of producers who made excellent wine in the past and who continue to do so now. Admittedly our opinion of their current vintages is biased, since we admire Oddero's fidelity to Barolo made in the traditional manner. Anyway, the old wines are great, and we're happy to have old vintages whenever we can.
Cappellano 1973 Barolo (bottled for Troglia)
Troglia was a wine merchant in Torino. We've had Cappellano Barolo bottled for Troglia back to 1954, and they certainly did a good job of it, using the funky, misshapen bottle associated with Gattinara.