Ampelos 2016 Santa Ynez Valley Rose of Syrah Upsilon 1.5 L

Our domestic rose magnum this summer! Peter and Rebecca Work of Ampelos consistently produce some of the most delicious Pinot, Syrah, Viognier, and Grenache in Santa Barbara County. Farming and sustainability are central at Ampelos - they are Demeter certified biodynamic, SIP certified, and even their bottles are produced in California. Their 2016 rose is fresh and flavorful, combining 80% Syrah, farmed and harvested specifically for rose, 15% Grenache, and a 5% splash of Riesling from recently planted vines on their estate. Juicy watermelon and strawberry blossoms, with crunchy pomegranate, blood orange, and orange zest. Ariana Rolich

Amplify 2015 Santa Ynez Valley Camp 4 Carignane

Amplify 2017 Santa Ynez Valley Pink Flag

Arnot-Roberts 2017 El Dorado Gamay

Arnot-Roberts 2017 North Coast Trousseau

Banshee 2015 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Bedrock NV North Coast Shebang Red Wine

55% Zinfandel blended with Carignane, Petite Sirah, Mourvedre, Alicante Bouschet, Grenache, Syrah, Barbera and a touch of whites for aromatics from old vine plantings (up to 100 years old) around Sonoma County, fermented with native yeasts in stainless steel and raised in a nice bit of French oak for a bold, bright-fruited, silky, and satisfying wine that is unbeatable at this price. 

Birichino 2013 Central Coast Besson Vineyard Grenache

The grapes from this vineyard (named after George Besson Sr. and Jr. whose families have lived and tended this vineyard since the 1930s) is fermented with native yeasts, using 15% whole cluster (with the rest destemmed), and racked into neutral barrels, unfined and and unfiltered. This wine envelops the palate with black cherry skin and fruit flavors, and violet, freshly rained earth, and menthol undertones. Despite the lightness and brightness of this Grenache, all the flavors resonate with an understatedly profound intensity. Pair with roast turkey with cranberry sauce or mushroom and herbed stuffing! Jonas Mendoza

Birichino 2014 Central Coast Grenache "Vielles Vignes"

Birichino 2014 Chalone Antle Vineyard Pinot Noir

The Antle Vineyard is perched at the edge of an extinct volcano, planted on granite and limestone soils at nearly 2,000' in the Chalone AVA. Several notable California winemakers have sourced fruit from this distinctive vineyard, including Enfield, Dirty & Rowdy, and the Scholium Project. Birichino's Pinot Noir from Antle Vineyard resonates with black cherry skin and tart black raspberry flavors with meaty, earthy, and herbal undertones, framed by firm and stern tannins. Jonas Mendoza

Birichino 2014 Chalone Antle Vineyard Pinot Noir 1.5 L

Birichino 2014 Santa Cruz Mountains Lilo Vineyard Pinot Noir 1.5 L

Birichino 2015 Lodi Bechthold Vineyard Cinsault 1.5 L

Bow & Arrow 2016 Willamette Valley Air Guitar

Broadside 2016 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon

Broadside is a project of very talented winemaker Chris Brock. The Cabernet is fermented with wild yeasts and aged in barrels, 10% of which are new. The resultant wine is remarkably fresh and full bodied with an interesting spicy character and plenty of bright, tangy dark fruit.

Broc Cellars 2016 Alexander Valley Carbonic Carignan

This wine is sourced from the Oat Valley Vineyard in Alexander Valley, which contains 130+ year old vines! The decomposed sandy soil here makes this site phylloxera-proof as well. Planted sometime around 1890, this extraordinarily old vineyard includes, in addition to Carignan, plantings of Palomino, Zinfandel, and Alicante. Thus, this wine's cepage is 85% Carignan, 10% Alicante, 4% Zinfandel, and 1% Palomino. The grapes are then fermented using full carbonic maceration, which, when combined with the crazy concentration from the old vine fruit, makes this wine an exciting and atypical blend of incredibly concentrated depth and bright freshness. Charred meat and bone broth intermingle with pomegranate, strawberry, and bright cranberry flavors on the palate. The general intensity of its flavors is immense, it feels like drinking an entire historical period in one glass. Andrew Farquhar

Cafaro 1995 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 1.5 L

Camp 2017 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon

From the folks who run Hobo Wine Co., here we have the delicious new vintage of one of our favorite inexpensive Cabernets from California! Tart blackberry and ripe cassis mix with herbal hints and wildflower on the nose while broadly gracing the firm, rich, powerfully tannic palate. Sourced from many lesser known but sustainably or organically farmed vineyards throughout Sonoma county. Aged for nine months in neutral oak barrels. Andrew Farquhar

Ceritas 2016 Elliot Vineyard Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

Charles Krug 1974 Napa Vintage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon

Clos Saron 2010 Renaissance Vineyard Spring Frost (Red Blend)

Clos Saron 2015 California Kind of Blue Syrah Verdelho

Colgin 1995 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb

Cooper Hill 2016 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir

Cooper Mountain Vineyards started in 1978 when Dr. Robert Gross and his wife, Corrine, planted the first Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines in the unique soils of Cooper Mountain in the Chehalem Mountains of Oregon's Willamette Valley. Today, the estate has more than 100 acres  dedicated to organic and biodynamic farming and winemaking. This Pinot Noir is refreshing and ripe, with brambly raspberry and cherry fruit, baking spice, and earthy flavors.

Corison, Cathy 2015 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon

Dashe 2015 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel

Dashe 2015 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel 375ml

Dashe 2016 Dry Creek Valley Enfants Terribles Grenache

Dirty and Rowdy 2016 Amador County Shake Ridge Mourvèdre

Division 2017 Oregon Béton

Division 2017 Willamette Valley Serra Vineyard Cot

Dragonette Cellars 2012 Santa Barbara County Grenache

Drovers 2016 Willamette Pinot Noir

Elyse 1996 California Nero Misto

Eyrie Vineyards 2016 Dundee Hills Trousseau

Flowers 1995 Sonoma Pinot Noir Camp Meeting / Moon Select (torn)

Flowers 1997 Sonoma Pinot Noir Camp Meeting / Moon Select

Folk Machine 2017 Central Coast Pinot Noir

This refreshing and bright Pinot Noir from star California winemaker Kenny Likitprakong is sourced predominantly from the Arroyo Seco AVA, in other words, Steinbeck country. Native yeast fermentation and spontaneous malo are followed by nine months on the lees with occasional batonnage in used French oak barrels. Bright red fruit and elegant texture make for a fine, refreshing wine that lingers pleasantly on the palate. Andrew Farquhar

Fossil & Fawn 2016 Willamette Valley Silvershot Vineyard Pinot Noir

Father and son Jim Fischer I and Jim Fischer II farm a single site, Silvershot Vineyards, and craft wine made with minimal intervention that are meant to express the maximum potential of their specific site. Jim Fischer I and his brother Bill planted Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris on a gentle south/southwest facing slope on Holmes Hill right at the exit of Holmes Gap, the furthest inland portion of Oregon's viticulturally important Van Duzer Corridor, a gap in the coastal mountains that allows cooling air to sweep through from the Pacific into the Willamette Valley. These wines are energetic and full of an awesome melange of tart cranberry fruit, violets, spice, and a quirky, saline, minerally energy that is as enticing when drunk alone as it is accepting of a wide array of dishes. A fantastic food wine, with more delicately enumerated fruit structure than many American Pinots. 142 cases produced. Andrew Farquhar

Frenchtown Farms 2016 Sierra Foothills Waypoint Pinot Noir

Ghostwriter 2013 Santa Cruz County Belle Farms Pinot Noir

Belle Farms Pinot Noir is a perennially stunning single vineyard bottling from Ghostwriter, from 1.5 acres at 500 feet elevation, planted in 1999 to Champagne clones, just outside of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA in the foothills of Mount Madonna. We recently learned from winemaker Kenny Likitprakong that Belle Farms was ripped out after the 2014 harvest and is currently planted with broccoli to enrich the soils before replanting (the vineyard had been struggling for years and ultimately failed). 2013 was a gorgeous vintage for these valiant vines, with aromas of dry earth, sweet cherry, birch bark, cardamom, and clove, which swirl onto the palate of crisp cranberry, rich cassis, black raspberry preserves, and spicy citrus oils, with a bold acidic core. This cuvée always needs some air, and flavors evolve on the second day open toward elegant, high-toned fruit with graceful florals and a fresh, salty, mineral layer. An aptly named vineyard! Please decant. Ariana Rolich

Ghostwriter 2014 Santa Cruz Mountains Bates Ranch Cabernet

Harrington Corvina 2017 San Benito County Siletto Vineyard

Harrington Mission 2017 Lodi Somers Vineyard

Bryan Harrington is an amazing winemaker who is interested in very obscure grapes from California. His Mission is a fantastic example of the variety. The classic russet color of the grape, the very light tannin and silky, extraordinarily soft mouthfeel are evident with this great example of California's oldest wine grape. Notes of cedar and plum, with just a whiff of tobacco, are welcome on the nose, slightly redolent of more powerfully tannic wines. This wine has darker fruit character but is very light in body and tannin. Perfect with intensely flavored barbecues. Andrew Farquhar

Hirsch Vineyards 2016 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir San Andreas

Hope Well 2016 Amity Hills Pinot Noir

Inconnu 2017 Contra Costa County Lalalu Cab Franc

Laura Brennan Bissell, the winemaker behind Inconnu, makes wine based on her belief in the importance of "vins de soif," the French term meaning "wines of thirst," aka wines made for refreshing drinking. This immensely juicy Cabernet Franc, sourced from the secretly hip old-vine hinterland hinterland of Contra Costa County, is light and refreshing and best drunk chilled somewhere in shade or sunlight. The bright red fruit is accented by some of the denser, earthier, herbal tendencies in Cabernet Franc and is combined into a ravishing and elegant whole. Andrew Farquhar

Karl Lawrence 1997 Napa Cabernet Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Kelley Fox 2015 Willamette Valley Momtazi Pinot Noir

Kelley Fox 2016 Dundee Hills Maresh Pinot Noir

There are a lot of outstanding Pinot Noirs produced in Oregon, and Kelley Fox's Maresh Vineyard bottling is one of the best. Planted in the Dundee Hill A.V.A. on reddish-brown, well-draining Jory soils, Maresh Vineyard is a sought-after, historic source for Pinot noir, one of the first planted in the region and home to a healthy polyculture that includes walnut, hazelnut, and fruit orchards, full of butterfies, birds, and bees. Kelley's blocks at Maresh, which she farms herself, contain own-rooted old vines planted in 1970. Kelley's wines offer mystery, wildness, and poise, a sort of natural beauty that you don't find often and is hard to pinpoint. Fields of flowers, silky wild strawberry fruit, and spicy raspberry, with fine, mineral earth, structure and tannins that grow with air, and lingering floral cherry notes. Fascinating now, but wise to cellar some for 10 years or more

La Clarine Farm NV Sierra Foothills Syrah El dorado

La Sirena 1996 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon

Lakoya 1995 Napa Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon

Leonetti 1993 Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Leonetti 1995 Columbia Valley Merlot (upper sh.)

Lillian Winery 2009 California Syrah

Lillian Winery 2009 California Syrah Blue Label

Lillian Winery 2010 California Syrah

Lillian Winery 2011 California Syrah

Lillian Winery 2011 California Syrah Gold Series No. 01

Lillian Winery 2011 California Syrah Gold Series No. 02

Lillian Winery 2012 California Syrah

Lillian Winery 2013 California Syrah

Lillian Winery 2014 California Syrah

Madame X 2015 Merlot Napa Valley

Martha Stoumen Nero d'Avola 2016 Mendocino County Benson Ranch

Martha Stoumen Nero d'Avola 2017 Mendocino County Benson Ranch Rosato

Matthiasson NV Napa Yount Mill Vinyrd Vermouth "no. 3" 375 ml

Merus 1999 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 1.5 L

Minimus 2016 Applegate Valley Soloro Vineyard Grenache

Minor, Sean 2017 Central Coast Pinot Noir

Pied a Terre 2014 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon

Kudos to our friend Richard Luftig for the phenomenal quality and price of Pied a Terre Cabernet! Always one of our best-selling American reds, 2014 is a deep, ripe, and focused vintage for Pied a Terre. There is great energy and balance in this bottle, which will elevate your wintry dinners and holiday gift lists alike! Ariana Rolich

Porter Creek 2015 Mendocino Carignane Old Vines Mendocino

This bright, ripe, juicy old-vine Carignane is sourced from biodynamically farmed grapes from Mendocino County. Rich, rustic, and juicy, this is a perfect barbecue wine, as it has the tannins to compete with chargrilled meats but clocking in at only 13.3% alcohol. Quite plush, this wine has the extraordinary fruit concntration unique to old-vine Carignane. Carignane is traditionally considered to be a lighter grape, but in fact, at about fifty years of age it begins to concentrate rapidly, and these super-old vines create wines of stunning depth. This quixotic wine works just as well with a slight chill in the sun as with hearty beef stews. Enjoy! Andrew Farquhar

Porter Creek 2015 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir

Sourced from vineyards of clay over schist, shale, and granite bedrock, this fabulous Russian River Pinot was spontaneously fermented open-top (1/3 whole cluster), with a four day cold soak. Following this were 11 months in 25% new French barrique. A brawny, grippy Pinot Noir, in no ways heavy, this is a densely structured wine with tart pie cherry and cranberry notes. This wine has a way of reminding me of a lot of great California Pinot while also being structured somewhat differently, with a higher tone, more nervous energy, and a finish as tightly wound as a well-thrown football. While the fruit is definitely present it's wrapped around a surprisingly spare mineral core. Andrew Farquhar

Porter Creek 2015 Russian River Valley PN Fiona Hill

Porter Creek 2017 Sonoma Rose (Zinfandel/Carignane)

Precedent 2015 Contra Costa County Evangelho Vineyard Zinfandel

Precedent 2015 Contra Costa County Evangelho Zinfandel 1.5 L

Revik 2015 Howell Mountain Diogenes Ridge Vnyd Cabernet

Diogenes Ridge is located at 1800 feet above St. Helena in the Vaca mountains, this Cabernet is athletic and powerful, but without any excess weight. 15% whole cluster, spontaneous open-top ferment, eighteen days on the skins, and eighteen months in 50% new French oak barrels give this wine a force that is brought to an exquisite tension by its incredible acid backbone. Powerful, tannic, and clocking in under 14% ABV, this wine is extraordinarily balanced and capable of many years of cellaring. Traditional black currant is furled in chocolate shavings, hearth ash, peppercorn, cherry pit, samovar, and alabaster dust. Tiny production (two barrels) and alertness in the cellar have produced a fantastic expression of Napa Cabernet that bridges stylistic tendencies and generations. Andrew Farquhar

Rhys 2013 Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Bearwallow Vineyard

Rhys 2013 Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir Family Farm Vyd

Rhys 2014 Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir Home Vineyard

Rhys 2014 Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir Skyline Vineyard

Rootdown 2017 Amador County Mourvedre Rose 1.5 L

Grapes grown in the Dry Bone Ranch vineyard at 2,700 feet in the Sierra Foothills. Like it's companion sangiovese rose, this is pressed using high pressure, to extract as much bold character as possible from the skins. Bold tart red fruit intermingles with some garrigue, a touch of candied rhubarb, and black pepper spice. Incredible concentration of fruit and tart, pithy, mineral character. Bottled with less than 10ppm sulfur. These magnums are incredible party bottles in addition to being exclusive on the east coast to Chambers Street Wines! Andrew Farquhar

Rootdown 2017 Amador County Trousseau Rosé 1.5 L

A mellow peach color in the glass, this rose is a little softer than Rootdown's other offerings, but it exhibits much of the herbal, mineral, and tea-like  aspects associated with this grape. Trousseau planted in 2004 is gently foot-trod upon arrival in the winery, followed by spontaneous fermentation and cold-stabilization. Herbal, with fine green-apple fruit and a smudge of earthiness, this light and elegant rose is a great food wine. I had with hummus, tabouleh, foule, and baba ghanouj, with which it went famously. These magnums are incredible party bottles in addition to being exclusive on the east coast to Chambers Street Wines! Andrew Farquhar

Rootdown 2017 Sierra Foothills Jane's Vineyard Sangiovese Rosé 1.5 L

Sun-drenched and scorchingly refreshing, this sangiovese rose sourced from a small 2 acre vineyard on Duncan Peak in Mendocino is the color of blood orange flesh in the glass. Hand-harvested, the grapes are then squeezed with high pressure to get a lot of flavor from the skins. Juicy and ripe, with incredible acidity, an herbal freshness, and powerful blood orange character, this is a supercharged rose with such concentration it feels like drinking a glassful of rubies. These magnums are incredible party bottles in addition to being exclusive on the east coast to Chambers Street Wines! Andrew Farquhar

Ryme Cellars 2015 Fountaingrove District Peacelands Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a firm and beautifully structured Cabernet from the Peacelands Vineyard in the new Fountain Grove District AVA of Sonoma. Firm, with layers of spice, cedar, smoke, and cooking chocolate wafting over its subtle, hushed cassis core, this reminds me more of an old-school Cabernet from the Santa Cruz Mountains than something from Napa. This wine will age with grace, which is important, as the Peacelands Vineyard was tragically destroyed in the fires of 2017. Thus this particular expression of Sonoma Cabernet will now only be recorded in the bottle. Andrew Farquhar

Schrader 1998 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Gaudeamus Upper Block

Schrader 1999 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Gaudeamus Upper Block

Schrader 2000 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Tokalon

SITE 2014 Santa Barbara County Bien Nacido Syrah

Sonoma Mtn Winer (Nic Coturri) 2014 Sonoma Valley Cuvee No. 1

Sonoma Mtn Winer (Nic Coturri) 2016 Sonoma Valley Merlot

This is a fantastic, beautifully structured Merlot from Sonoma that has fantastic fruit concentration and great structure, all while being free of added sulfur! Nic Coturri, son of famed natural winemaker Tony Coturri, sources fruit from his family vineyards to make this surprisingly affordable and high quality cuvee. Andrew Farquhar

Southold Farm + Cellar 2015 North Fork Faarm Vineyard Lagrein Trust the Pain

Wind Gap 2014 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

ZD 1995 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 1.5 L

ZD 1996 Carneros Pinot Noir Library Select