Dr. Vino reports that an urban winery is opening in Red Hook this summer:

Abe Schoener, excellent and unconventional winemaker from California, told DrVino.com yesterday that he will open the winery in a building on Beard Street sometime late in the summer 2008. Schoener’s partner will be his Brooklyn-based distributor for the NYC area, Mark Snyder of Angel’s Share. The wine-making facility represents a first for Schoener. Although the former Greek philosophy professor makes compelling and hugely serious wines under his Scholium Project label from California, he does not have a winery there. The Red Hook winery will make exclusively wines from New York State grapes, purchased from vineyards up the Hudson River Valley and from Long Island.

Abe tells us the winery will be in the Beard Street Piers Warehouse on the corner of Van Brunt “behind door number 15.” In an email, Dr. Vino said that “Abe’s California wines are very cool and very un-California. I wouldn’t be surprised if these wines he’ll be making in Brooklyn are soon to be among the best from NYS! Even more reason to drink local!”
A New Winery for Red Hook, Brooklyn [Dr. Vino]
Photo by mlykb9.