Winery Experience Coming to NYC
The full winery experience in Manhattan? Yup. It’s coming.
According to the press release:
This fall, New York wine lovers can enjoy the art of winemaking in their own backyard — literally — with the opening of City Winery (143 Varick Street) in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. Thanks to founder and CEO, Michael Dorf, oenophiles can now stomp, ferment and bottle their own barrels of Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Riesling and Chardonnay in the heart of New York City.
The 21,000-square-foot space blends a wine bar and event space with a fully operational winery that will house 300 barrels; 200 barrels are allocated for full or fractional private ownership. City Winery will import grapes from noted wine regions in California, Oregon, Washington State, New York, Chile and Argentina, enabling barrel owners and visitors to participate in the full winemaking experience: crushing, pressing, fermenting, barrel tasting, bottling and labeling. Guidance will come from City Winery’s Master Winemaker David Lecomte, who hails from France’s Rhone Valley and was previously a winemaker at Herzog Wine Cellars in California.
It’s slated to open in the fall.
