For my retail beverage shop analysis assignment, I visited Henry’s wine and spirit shop located on 69 central avenue Brooklyn, New York. It was not one of the many that were recommend on the list but I stumbled upon it walking home one day and actually decided why not visit a shop where you live so you can build a relationship with people in your neighborhood. The person I spoke to wanted to stay anonymous but was very nice and had a lively personality. I wanted to just ask normal questions such as what is the most popular wine bought in this area and etc. without saying it was for an assignment to get the real experience of buying wines. I told him about my assignment after he answered all my questions and I wanted to ask to take photos he said it was perfectly fine and actually recommended some wine bottles that he thinks would be good to talk about like a Malbec from Mendoza Argentina and Divy Rysak which I found to be interesting because it is a product from Croatia. It was my first time in a wine shop and I was very excited just to see how someone else would explain certain wines. Henrys wine and spirit is not a big shop but they really know how to make a small space look bigger than what it is. One question I askedabout was what is your most popular wine He answered with a quick response and pointed to a cabernet sauvignon made in Columbia valley Washington state. He said a lot of people love wines from Columbia valley and ask from this specific grape smith & crusher producer as well. My second question was actually one that I came up with at the spot as I wanted to know what influenced the shop to buy all the whacky wines as he explained earlier. He answered with that the owner wanted to move away from a lot of restaurant type wines and stick to what he thought would blow up which is naturalwines. It was a great shop to visit and the owner believes that he is responsible for the change happening in the neighborhood we both live in which is very diverse with many different kinds of restaurants in the surrounding area.

Divy Rysak – Wine from Croatia

[caption id="attachment_3162" align="alignnone" width="300"] Bellwether – Riesling
This wine I actually bought and found it to be very interesting that this was made in the Finger lakes just like the wine of the new world class at city tech

Grapesmith & Crusher – Cabernet sauvignon from Columbia Valley , WA