Gothamist: City Winery Brings Barrels to SoHo

NannyState

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:42:01 -0500

Is it still 1999? Can I buy into this really cool concept before my AOL stock options get swallowed up in the Time Warner merger?

Rocknrope

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:16:00 -0500

Seriously, with all the fantastic wine available in this city, why would anyone go for this, if not to display uncouth, pompous, and uninformed bourgeois tastes? And I don't even want to know where or how they trucks those grapes in during this cold.

Snoopy

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:05 -0500

My wine is better than your wine so there. Nice concept, poor timing. Actually the fools that buy into this thing are just that, fools. It's not really their wine. They didn't grow the grapes, they didn't harvest the grapes, they didn't press the grapes, they didn't draw off the juice, they didn't sit and wait as the crud settled to the bottom, they didn't cork the bottles, they didn't do shit except call it their own wine. But then again for $35 a bottle I guess it's OK.

skowen

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:44:53 -0500

Bummer - I thought this would be a setup like you see in France (or the Bowery Whole Foods for beer) where you bring your own container and get cheap, respectable table wine.

ides_of_march

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:34:02 -0500

Time share wine barrels are the first thing I tend to cut back on in tough economic times.

JMH

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:48:38 -0500

Joan Osborne? Are we talking about New Years Eve 1997?

SP

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:11:05 -0500

Hmm, $35 / bottle for wine you have to make yourself using grapes grown who knows where in some neophyte winery, when for $10 I can get a bottle of wine made in France by people who have been growing their own grapes and making wine for hundreds of years? Sign me up!!!