Chambers Street Wines

Chambers Street Wines resembles many other neighborhood wine stores, but as you wander slowly from rack to rack (as Snails do) you start to get it – Chambers Street really is dedicated to small producers and natural production. Their website lists more than 200 “natural, organic and biodynamic” wines from all over the world, and their in-store tastings feature interesting, hard-to-find bottles (the day I was there seven small Italian winemakers were showing). Absent from the shelves are the generic wines made by today’s global wine groups...but you can get those anywhere.