(L to R: Custom Crush BK Winery Owners And Operators Brian Leventhal, Conor McCormack And John Stires)
"Brooklyn New York is getting its own custom crush wine-making facility. Brooklyn Winery has been under construction for the past few months. The plant will import grapes from both California and the New York State wine regions and will have customers working on custom barrels or shared community barrels. Wine Business reports that the facility should open next month. It will also offer classes and professional events. Currently the entire New York area only has one similar facility, City Winery.
Resident winemaker Conor McCormack was formerly with the company that started it all, San Francisco's Crushpad and he will supervise production and instruct amateur winemakers in hands-on sessions. McCormack will also make house wines which will be sold at the wine bar and tasting room. A full barrel costs $5,700 and delivers 300 bottles. The price includes a barrel planning session with McCormack to help you select your varietal and region, and discuss wine style options. After that the potential winemakers learn more by taking part in five private winemaking sessions covering topics like fermentation, pressing, racking, barrel tasting and finally bottling. The bottles are finished with your own custom-designed wine label including the name of your choice. Custom Barrel may be shared by a group of up to 12 people and 1/2 barrels are also available."
Information Courtesy Of: Luxist.Com
Visit The Custom Crush Brooklyn Winery Online Here: BKwinery.Com
CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: In spite of my having a virtually novice nose that could scarcely be trusted to identify and discern a complex floral bouquet from an elegantly aromatic wine with an earthy finish, I am super interested in this Custom Crush BK Winery in Brooklyn, NY.
I mean, how cool would it be to spring for a partial barrel (NOTE: I personally have neither the desire nor the "my money grows on trees" financial abandon to plunk down $5,700 cash on a full tank ... even if it does yield 300 or so bottles. Wine is fine, but liquor is quicker ... lol) and plaster the "Livestyle" nom de plume across the front of a few dozen custom wine labels!? The answer we were looking for in response to, "how cool", this would be boys and girls is, "VERY!" ... lol.
Scheduled (NOTE: For additional snootiness though, feel free to turn on your faux British accent and pronounce the word "schedule" as "shed-ual". Try it free. It's fun!) to open later this September in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section (of course), this 7,500 square foot hands-on "grape to the glass" wonderland for alcoholics of means will also double as a kitchen and private event venue much like it's Lower Manhattan counterpart, the right outside of the Holland Tunnel based City Winery.
Sign up for some classes, join their community of connoisseurs in training and wet your whistle with some wine of your own design. Cheers!
"The Grape Ape Show" Show Card Circa When Saturday Morning Cartoons Were Still Good!
I mean, how cool would it be to spring for a partial barrel (NOTE: I personally have neither the desire nor the "my money grows on trees" financial abandon to plunk down $5,700 cash on a full tank ... even if it does yield 300 or so bottles. Wine is fine, but liquor is quicker ... lol) and plaster the "Livestyle" nom de plume across the front of a few dozen custom wine labels!? The answer we were looking for in response to, "how cool", this would be boys and girls is, "VERY!" ... lol.
Scheduled (NOTE: For additional snootiness though, feel free to turn on your faux British accent and pronounce the word "schedule" as "shed-ual". Try it free. It's fun!) to open later this September in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section (of course), this 7,500 square foot hands-on "grape to the glass" wonderland for alcoholics of means will also double as a kitchen and private event venue much like it's Lower Manhattan counterpart, the right outside of the Holland Tunnel based City Winery.
Sign up for some classes, join their community of connoisseurs in training and wet your whistle with some wine of your own design. Cheers!
"The Grape Ape Show" Show Card Circa When Saturday Morning Cartoons Were Still Good!
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