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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...

4/29/23 - We debated using this incredible drawing for our header, only because we didn't have any Vin Jaune in stock, but we actually found a few bottles of Vin Jaune! While inquiring about Vin Jaune with several importers in the city, we ended up deciding to offer a sampling of what's available in the city at the moment. Not exhaustive at all -...

4/20/23 - Starting on February 1st of 2023, massive wildfires burned farms, vines, homes, wineries and livelihoods across more than 1,000,000 acres of southern and central Chile. This Saturday, we will be raising money to support small farmers in getting back on their feet, cleaning and replanting land, and finding stability in an area of widespread poverty. Regardless of your ability to donate, if...

4/19/23 - While having the opportunity to taste amazing wines from all over the world is certainly one of the allures of working in the wine business, perhaps the most fun and personally enriching part is meeting and forming relationships with the people making those wines - especially when they're working right under our noses in New York just a few hours northwest of...

3/20/23 - Though I would consider myself a relative novice of Italian white wines, I've heard that Verdicchio can produce some of the finest white wines of Italy, and can attest to trying some impressive examples over the years. Of the ones I've tried, the wines of La Marca di San Michele have always been standouts. A couple of years ago, we sent out...

3/11/23 -   Like Manna from Heaven, the siren song of our importer telling me the new Clemens Buschs were landing in March brought tears of joy to my eyes. In addition, Chambers is proud to announce a surprise tasting with him and another winemaker to be announced soon at our sister restaurant at the end of the month...more manna from heaven! In honor...