So says an article in today’s Daily News which cites numerous wine ventures in Williamsburg, Red Hook and Green Point. Check it out. Here’s an excerpt:
Veteran vintners Greg Sandor and Paul Wegimont have opened the Bridge Urban Winery beneath the Williamsburg Bridge, determined to produce their own wines in the once-gritty neighborhood.
Cutting-edge California winemaker Abe Schoener has said goodbye to Napa Valley, set up shop in a Red Hook factory building and is expected to unveil his first wines sometime next year.
Allie Sharper of Greenpoint-based
Brooklyn Oenology, who is already selling a fine Merlot and Chardonnay,
is coming out with additional BOE brand wines and is looking to move
her winemaking operation from Long Island into the city."We’re pioneering winemaking on a commercial scale in Brooklyn," Sharper said. "New York
is a great market to tap, and in my case I’m a resident here and into
the culture and art scene. I figured there was no reason I couldn’t
practice my craft here."
Wine grapes have traditionally been grown in Brooklyn and have done well. When we bought our former home on Second St., the garden was overgrown with a grape vine that the former owners, and Italian family, had planted many years before. Italian immigrants (including my greatuncle, who was a bootlegger/vintner for Grover Whelan) have successfully made wine here for many years.)
making wine from concentrate in BK, yay!!!