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9/9/23 - Thanks to a tip from our friend Éric Texier, we have just received a shipment of sensational Poiré (pear cider) and Cidre (apple cider) from the talented Jérome Forget at the Ferme de L'Yonnière in Normandy. High-trained pear trees, some 200 years old "I am a peasant" says Jérome. "When I arrived at the Ferme de L'Yonnière in 1993, there were already...

9/2/23 - Chambers Street Wines is known for many things: old wine and rare collections, our well documented and historic love of the Loire Valley, championing lesser known producers and wine regions, and of course our dedication to organic and biodynamic agriculture and low-intervention winemaking. We're also known both locally and across the country for simply having an amazing selection of affordable organic/biodynamic wines that...

8/24/23 - The last day of my Germany trip in April was spent visiting the famed Rheingau wine region on the north side of the Rhine river where it breaks from it's South/ North flow to an East/West one. Historically, the Rheingau was always considered one of Germany's top appellations as it's southern facing vineyards were able to achieve greater ripeness than elsewhere. As...

8/14/23 - Chiara Vigo always knew that she would come back to her family home after her studies, to find a way to tell the story of her ancestors and honor her roots. Having written a doctoral thesis on the connections between art and wine, focused on the history of wine label artwork, it seems it may have been inevitable that she would end...

8/8/23 - This is one of our favorite times, when we get to introduce a new estate to our readers and share a story that has inspired us both through an agricultural model (and way of life), and through the glass. Today we take a moment to present Domaine de Lorient, a farm winery that is located on the highest spot of the Saint-Péray...

7/26/23 - In preparing to write this piece about the wines of the Douro Valley, I figured I'd brush up on the background, and quickly realized that the story of unfortified wines in the region is essentially a very recent one. Considering the fact that independent estates in the Douro valley were only able to make and bottle their own wines starting in the...

7/14/23 - Here at Chambers Street we end up tasting a lot of wine, with a seemingly constant stream of reps shuffling in and out with an endless supply of lovely liquids. It's not often that a tasting generates the type of buzz across the entire staff as when our friend and Polaner rep Hannah comes by with new Kelley Fox wines. Everyone stops...

7/6/23 -   We're very proud to be working with the witty and affable Jean-Francois Deu at Domaine du Traginer, and we have just received a new shipment of these delicious wines that belong on your table this season. "Banyuls and Banyuls Grand Cru are the appellations for France's finest and certainly most complex vin doux naturel" says says The Oxford Companion to Wine....

6/23/23 - My I am starting a series of articles based on the couple of wine regions I was able to visit in Germany after attending the annual VDP wine fair in Mainz this past April. I shall begin with a nearby region that doesn't get the spotlight like the Mosel, the Rheingau or the Pfalz do, but turns out to be an absolute...

6/6/23 - We have officially fallen in love with Burgundy wines from the excitingly lean and "old-school" 2021 vintage. You can look up why the vintage is considered so special, but the general theme is cooler weather than 2017, 18, 19 and 20, and a throw back to light, balanced, and low-alcohol Pinots and Chardonnays of yore. We should add that the wines are...

6/1/23 - Daniele Dinoia, proprietor of Villa Guelpa, in Sizzano. Daniele says "My kids are working in the vines - we never considered not farming organically." It’s a real thrill to taste excellent new wine from Alto Piemonte – a region that’s been thoroughly scoured by importers and writers for years. But except for the great Kerin O’Keefe (at the time writing for the...

5/29/23 - Here at Chambers Street Wines, our fascination and passion for Canary Island wines spans over a decade, from our earliest experiences with the unique wines of the region by way of producers like Bermejos, Tajinaste and Fronton de Oro, to the visionary wines of Borja Perez, and the precise and site specific releases from Envinate. We've done our best to accurately understand...

5/25/23 - Guy Bossard, founder of Domaine de L'Ecu in Muscadet passed away on May 12. He was a great influence in the progress towards organic and Biodynamic farming in the Loire and elsewhere, and showed, through his superb wines, that the terroirs of Muscadet could produce wines of great distinction, worthy of long aging. After his retirement he remained an influential figure in...

5/17/23 - As Abe Schoener tells it, the idea for Scythian Wine Co. started as a dream. He had already grown enamored with a small group of historic but long-overlooked vineyards in and around the greater Los Angeles area and wanted to enlist the help of fellow winemaker and friend Rajat Parr to bring them back to life. Abe recalls being in New York...

5/15/23 - The Northern stretch of the Mosel from where it empties into the Rhine at Koblenz down about 100km to Punderich is home to Europe's steepest vineyards. The Mosel Terraces form a unique landscape, very different from that of the more famous Middle Mosel.The microclimate is warmer, the vineyards more vertiginous, and viticulture more difficult here. The hand-built terraces that give the region its...