New wine shop from Smith & Vine folks
Photo, Off The Presses
Patrick Watson and Michele Pravda, the couple behind Smith & Vine, Stinky Bklyn, and the JakeWalk, will open their second wine shop in a few weeks, next to Trader Joe’s on Court Street. The shop will be called the Brooklyn Wine Exchange. It’ll be nice to have a wine shop right near TJ’s, but I sure was hoping for some 3-buck chuck coming to the nabe!
Off The Presses: Watson said the new stop will focus New World wines, meaning vino from the Americas, Australia, New Zealand on the like. Smith & Vine tends to focus on small, artisinal vintners from Europe, though it does have a small selection of American wines. Given Watson & Pravda’s good taste-and my general aversion to the big bodied, International Style of most South American and Australia wines-it will be interested to see what sort of inventory they come up.
The Brooklyn Wine Exchange will also have an education area where wine classes will be conducted. It will not be a ditto of Smith & Vine, but have a character of its own. Watson & Pravda have long conducted occasional wine classes, but they have been off-premise, in nearly restaurants.
Posted
: November 30th, 2009 at 8:27 am by Diana Rosenthal under shopping.
Tags:brooklyn wine exchange, JakeWalk, michele pravda, patrick watson, Smith and vine, stinky bklyn, trader joes
Comments: 3
Comments
Comment from Josh
Time: December 3, 2009, 5:58 pm
Forgive me for going all teenager on you, but, OMG AWESOME!
Comment from Chaz
Time: December 4, 2009, 12:33 pm
Nice to have the store, but the learning center? Yeah, that’s going to fly.
Comment from Diana Rosenthal
Time: December 1, 2009, 10:49 am
FYI: according to The Feed, there are additional partners, including D’Amico Foods people. http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/the-feed-blog/restaurants-bars/2009/11/the-feed-openings-brooklyn-wine-exchange/