New Wine Store Pending in Fort Greene
According to the reader who sent in this photo, the owners of this new wine store at 187 Dekalb were standing on the sidewalk last Saturday and soliciting signatures to support their application for a liquor license. We can’t imagine there being much resistance to an attractive wine store opening in the nabe, though with…
According to the reader who sent in this photo, the owners of this new wine store at 187 Dekalb were standing on the sidewalk last Saturday and soliciting signatures to support their application for a liquor license. We can’t imagine there being much resistance to an attractive wine store opening in the nabe, though with a name like Thirsty Wine Merchants, we suppose things could get a little rowdy. Wonder how the folks at Olivino and Greene Grape, both on Fulton, feel about the new competition!
UPDATE: The Brooklyn Papers covered this wine-shop controversy back in April.
L’epicerie on Vanderbilt does carry all the items above. They’ve recently added fish and it’s been a very good selection. Still would be nice to have a fish mart though. Lots of good openings happening to Dekalb and Myrtle recently! Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill really are such wonderful communities to live in. These openings are icing on the cake.
Sorry for Olivino but that is just about it for good wine in this hhod.
Yes, in NY State, liquor and wine store applications can be blocked, as you are invited to testify before the state liquor authority if you own a store within a certain distance. I wish the “blocking” were a rumour, but it is not. While the Greene Grape has done some nice things for the community, their effort to prevent competition from opening in the neighborhood was not a nice thing to do, and certainly not in the spirit of what I like to think this community is about.
let’s start a movement to get biz owners to open these for fort greene/clinton hill…my big gripe and desperate desire is a GREAT cheese store, on a par with bedford cheese…
so we need
fish
butcher
organic
bakery
CHEESE!
anyone know what’s up with the old Karrot space on grand (below lafayette…?
A wine store would be nice but I must agree with the poster above. Ft. Greene needs:
Good fish store – Fish Tales II??
Decent grocery store /organic produce
Butcher
Bakery
This is a silly rumor. I know the Greene Grape owner and they would NEVER do something like that.
How can you stop others from opening a same buisness 10 blocks away, from yours when in park slope there are wine shops in every block? Isn’t this America???????
Greene grape, attitutude should be different, as an Italian I suggest them to make more trips there to choose there wine, and realize what are they selling……..
Please open this wine shop, but please somebody F……..g open a butcher, a great organic grocery…………
The whole Greene Grape blocking thing is not a rumor gone haywire; I know the guy who was trying to open the store and Greene Grape was totally hardball–one of the owners is an attorney if I’m not mistaken.
At Greene Grape I’ve gotten too many $18 or $20 bottles of wine that were just okay. And their selection of what I think of as a “Tuesday” wine–e.g., $10 or under, is abysmal.
And it’s nice that they’re having a fundraiser, but there’s undoubtedly something in it for them.
I like Olivino but I wish her selection was bigger; with a little tinkering she could get more bottles in there.
I’m going to have to counter you on the Greene Grape assertion – they are very involved with their community (i.e. upcoming Fort Greene Park fundraiser) and are very fair to their employees. I also like the wines, but because I live closer to olivino, i often end up there instead.
ps. I’ve also heard that the whole blocking thing is a rumour gone haywire…