Great Jones Distilling Co. - which cleared bureaucratic hurdles in 2021 to open the first whiskey distillery on the island since Prohibition - has operated a 28,000 square-foot space at 686 Broadway that included a restaurant, retail store, speakeasy, tasting rooms and tours, according to its website.
“After 5 incredible years, Great Jones Distilling Co. Visitor Center is closed until further notice,” the website states. Great Jones is owned by Proximo Spirits, the Jersey City, NJ-based maker of Jose Cuervo. Neither Great Jones nor Proximo responded to requests for comment.
The alcohol “industry is going through a major reset,” said Michael Correra, executive director of the Metro Package Store Association, a trade group representing wine and liquor stores in the New York Metro area. “The business is imploding and I think you’ll see liquor stores close as well because fewer people are drinking.”
That's true. These yungun's - millenials and GenZ'ers and their ilk - would rather do Special K and all kinds other new designer drugs, not like us. We made our bones on Pagan Pink Ripple, Maddog 2020 and Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill, with an ocassional blast of Everclear just to kick it up a notch. Our weed had sticks and seeds in it, ferfucksake. Will DUI's be a thing of the past? Not if any of us Boomers have anything to say about it. Juss' sayin'...
Source: NY Post
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Let's not forget Annie Green Springs Plum Loco, er Hollow. Nowadays it's Woodford Reserve and Don Julio, but not quite the volume.
ReplyDeleteI'll spent a lot of time with Annies Peach Creek and BF Country Kwencher.
DeletePeople are drinking less, but I also bet - just like on the bourbon trail - these startups are selling their booze for 40-50% higher than established ( and capital paid out) brands. And add in the NYC effect and I can see a fifth of average whisky for $70. No chance.
ReplyDeletejust reading the words MD 20 20 made me stomach turn lol good times
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I are doing our part to keep the industry alive...
ReplyDeleteMD 20/20. The closest I've ever been to death. If its true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, I'm invincible.
ReplyDeleteExcessive taxes killed it. A couple years ago a Tesla was THE status symbol. Today's status symbol is a half-gallon of vodka in your Costco cart.
ReplyDeleteI can see the doors of our distillery here in town from my front porch. They do a lot of contracted distilling for other folks and made real bucks during Wuhan/Covid buying truckloads of grape juice from local vineyards - wineries were not making much since the pols shuttered restaurants - to make alcohol for a contract to provide hand sanitizer to all the military bases on the west coast. The stuff smelled like grapes and he gave a few gallons to my partner who, at the time, worked in a small wine shop in Seattle. The irony was large with wine aromaed sanitizer in a wine shop.
ReplyDeleteNow our distiller partners with a large winery to make branded bottles for them, still does a lot of contract distilling for others, as well as making his own label. Gotta be frosty and on your toes in tough times.
You got to assume that the astronomical lease or rent had to play a big part in it. Back in the 1990's, I delivered new cars to a dealership in Manhattan. The had an outdoor storage lot that they gave up cause of the rent. It couldn't have been 200 by 200. They were paying $85,000 a month rent.
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