The Wine Wars: Do You Hear the Fat Lady Singing?

While some in the town are saying Fox Hill Vineyard is done, they are wrong. Also, the KKK is coming to town - mark your calendars

Hope springs eternal, and I count myself an optimist, so let the Planning Board and the Town Board have their moment. The white hats won. The bucolic landscape endures. Donal’s fever dream of milk trucks rumbling down Bashford Road — trucks that, for the record, never existed; he knows this — is, for now, parked.

And yet.

Gabriella, dear: the matter is not closed. The ZBA was bullied into doing the right thing, which is not the same as the right thing being settled. Last week the Williamses, those onward Christian soldiers, presented themselves at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Box number two, checked. The State Liquor Authority was box number one, last month. I told you about that one already.

Here is what happens next. I know because I spent a long stretch on the phone with Ag and Markets this week, and I am not the only one who has.

The Williamses will return to the Planning Board. Yes, the ZBA has ruled that a tasting room is commercial and therefore incompatible with 5…