The wine cellar is under the control of the Wine Committee and is stored in excellent temperature and humidity controlled leased lockers in the Chicago area.

The cellar consists of over 3000 bottles of about 150 different types of wine.

Current replacement cost is in excess of $175,000.
This enables the Chapter to drink very fine wines in an economical way. What we have been able to experience and achieve reinforces the importance of the wine cellar and the foresight, through intelligent purchases, to perpetuate the vinous pleasures for current and future members for the decades ahead.

The raison d'être of the Chaîne is to combine the best of both food AND wine to procure the finest marriage possible within the economic restraints that necessarily exist.
Here is a selection of fine wines taken from our cellar over the past two years.
All these pre-1990 wines have been served at various Chapter events
during the 1999 and 2000 gastronomic seasons.
Château Latour, Pauillac 1979
Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac 1966
Château Margaux, Margaux 1988
Château Haut-Brion, Graves 1988
William Hill Cabernet 1979
Domaine de la Romanée Conti La Tâche 1979 (Magnum)
Château Figeac St. Emilion 1985
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, St. Julien 1982 & 1985
Château Climens, Barsac 1986
Château Rieussec, Sauternes 1988
Puligny-Montrachet Leflaive 1989
Vosne Romanée <Les Suchots> 1990
Champagne Bollinger 1990
Châteauneuf du Pape Jaboulet 1990
... AND MANY OTHER WELL-BRED WINES