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The Queens County Farm Museum, the only working farm in the city, is planning on starting a vineyard. The Post reports that the Farm would be "bottling Chardonnays, Cabernets and Merlots as early as 2007." It seems that the climate in Queens is better suited for wine production than Long Island. Joshua Wesson, CEO of Best Cellars, gives this optimistic yet guarded quote, "It will be interesting to see if Queens wine can capture the taste of the old world, or if it will taste like something from a world no one has ever been to." Bob Ransom of Vintage New York says, "Believe it or not you can grow grapes and make wine in far less hospitable places than Queens." The vineyard needs a name; Gothamist thinks some Queens neighborhoods might be great starting points for one: Shea; Jackson Heights; Forest Hills; Fresh Meadows; Sunnyside.
The Queens Country Farm Museum sells fresh milk and honey daily from its shops, plus sells vegetables during the summer (tomatoes, corn, and eggplant). And, starting in April, on the weekends, they'll start the hayrides again - field trip!
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My Greek Uncle from the old country used to grow grapes in his backyard garden in Astoria and make wine with it. I was too young to drink at the time but I'm sure it was old skool dawg!
Well sure, if you can grow anything in France, why not Queens.
Drinkin and hayrides? Field trip!
i've been to this "musuem" on a school trip. it's like a giant petting zoo parked smack dab in the middle of a nice quite residential nabe. they hay rides are fun but petting zoo = e. coli!
Petting zoos rock! I want my birthday party there.
when is yo berfday?
the title should either be, simply: "718"
or
in honor of Queen's finest, Nas, "QB's Finest"
REPRESENT!
I like 718, but it also applies to the Bx, SI and Bklyn...Whitestone I like too.
howsabout "corona forest garden estates?" or some such combination of nabes?
So long as they stay away from "Flushing", natch...
It does indeed sound drenched in fabulosity...reminiscent of my DC days heading out to skyline drive's vineyards for a day of drunken roaming..and this way no one needs to be a DD.
Whitestone- now I have that grade school song in my head- just replace bridge with vineyard..glory glory....
when i first saw post "vintage queens" in kinja i thought "old gay people" - who knew there was a working farm in queens! i certainly didn't.
And here I thought that wine in my very own nabe is something grandma is stomping with her feet in a giant vat in the backyard and pouring out a screw top the same day...who knew?
Cute piglet!!
718 is the obvious answer for a name. It captures perfectly the essence of Queens/NY borough geography.
I envision this as having a map in the background; the maps could constantly change, but they would always be of part of queens. Alternately, pictures of queens street scenes.
Besides, how many wines are known by a number?
Other possibilities:
borogrown
(an icon of a crown, no name)
bottleneck
bumpertobumper
VintaQe
the number of the subway line that serves the farm
QueenB (for honey wine)
Maybe a take on the bus lines, based on vintage year, like
Q08
Q09
etc.
And the label can be based on cemetary names...like Maple Grove Estates or Calvary...
Maple Grove Estates
Pinor Noir
Q07