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Warwick Valley Winery

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If looking for a winery to attend I would recommend the Warwick Valley Winery. The Warwick Valley Winery is a family owned business that has over 5 acres of land producing more than 100 bottles of wine a day.

Welcome

 

As shown below this is the entrance to Warwick Valley. Since being up relatively far I would suggest this as a day trip. While driving into the place you can see the grapes and other trees growing such as apples, pear, and oranges also made into different hard liquors.

A view from the road

The process of making wine and all liquor starts with the viticulture. Viticulture is the process of making wine. Warwick Valley relies heavily on the process of vinification. Fermentation wise Warwick Valley uses classic oak barrels for fermentation. Vessels are used as well to produce sparkling wines.  Most of there wines are racked and then left for purchase. Their wines are not typically long-aged wines that are racked for many years and purchased by the crate.

Wines for Sale

Walking through the winery on the tour was interesting to do as the tour guide was very knowledgable from the types of grapes to the crus on the branches.  some varieties of grapes grown as Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Gris and many more. these are all types of grapes varieties that we learned about throughout the semester and are defined within the textbook. The winery itself has a trail like process through.

some grapes

Grapes

the tasting room was connected to the dining hall and the store. it was a small crowded area that was run by one bar back. He was a very busy man that was doing a tasting of about 8 wines that day. You had the option to choose your vintage and your blend and then you were able to taste them. one disappointing factor of the wine tasting that is it quite cramped as its a small area.

The Wine Tasting Counter

A major highlight of this winery was the food and music. The food there was absolutely amazing serving hand made fire oven pizzas that were delicious, and crispy homestyle french fries tossed in truffle oil. And the live music was from a local band. it’s a cute place that is family friendly and just an overall fun time. If you’re looking for a winery I would recommend Warrick Valley Winery.

 

Retail Wine Shop Analysis: Flatiron Wine And Spirits

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Flatiron Wine and Spirits:

Located between Flatiron and Union Square park Flatiron WIne and Spirits is located on A relatively busy street. coming there from city tech took me around twenty-five minutes on the F local train. when walking up to Flatiron Wine and Spirits you see a busy window with stickers scattered around. it has a very urban and modern feel to it. upon walking in you are greeted with a vast selection of wines displayed around in just about any nook and cranny. With my school bag on I felt as though I was a bull in a china shop, paying extra attention to assure I did not break anything on knocking the wines off the boxes that were strategically placed around the store to assure you looked at all the possible wines there were to offer.

Bottles were shown like this across the room. but as well as mixed regions. When speaking to one of workers i was not greeted as soon as walking in even though they were not busy.

Shelfer talkers that tell you about the wine were portayed as above for only the wines located again the wall. The wines that were set upon islands did not have any just sign stating what type of wine was mainly located there. After 10 minutes of waiting to speak with the manager even beforehand calling and scheduling an appointment, she who did not give me her name was quite rude and treated me very poorly. When asking her how she and the purchasers of the store determine what wines to stock I got a blank stare.

 

When asking what was they’re best selling wine the manager directed me to one of the store’s sales associates to which she as well neglected to answer my question or introduce herself to me. After them both walking away from me I decided to take a walk around the store to take some pictures

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These are the few pictures I was able to take before another store worker came up to me and requested I stop taking photos, so as for a wine that I did not take pictures for here was a wine from Croatia called plavac mali, from split. I was aware that Croatia made table wines but not any retail ones from the actual country.