NY Mag Reasons to Love NY: Red Hook Wine

It’s #32. Here’s an excerpt from NY Mag:

Wine distributor Mark Snyder is determined to restore the faded
tradition of Brooklyn winemaking—once practiced routinely in kosher
wineries and Italian-American basements—and to utterly transform it.
And he’s doing it in Red Hook, with Long Island grapes. If that’s not
zany enough, consider his co-conspirators: Bob Foley of Robert Foley
Vineyards, maker of cult Napa reds like his signature Claret and
Charbono, and Abe Schoener, whose quirky Scholium Project label claims
East Coast devotees like chef Colin Alevras, who’s been helping out in
Red Hook in his spare time. Even in this year of the urban winery, with
the more commercial City Winery and Bridge Vineyards opening in Soho
and Williamsburg respectively, the prospect of Foley and Schoener
fermenting and blending wines in an unmarked Red Hook storefront might
be the oenological equivalent of Alice Waters opening a little café on
Van Brunt Street. Unexpected, bizarre, and more than a little thrilling.