Tucked away on a side road in a small North Fork community,
you'll find a place serving local wine and beer.
Alie Shaper and Robin Epperson-McCarthy were co-workers at
an East End winery who decided to collaborate over their passion for wine
making.
"Chronicle Wines is our little collection of brands.
And we are unusual in that we're a winery with two winemakers. You usually
don't find that. And between us we produce five different brands," says
Shaper.
Shaper has three brands of wine. They include reds, white,
and even orange wines.
Together, they came up with a line of wine spritzers.
Their tasting room and retail shop is an historic building
located in the tiny North Fork downtown of Peconic.
It's small, but guests enjoy the cozy feel.
"We want to take the pretentiousness out of wine. I
would love to have a newbie come in here and teach them that wine doesn't have
to be pretentious, that you drink what you like and the whole point of doing
tastings is to find the wine that you want to take home and drink more
of," says Epperson-McCarthy.