I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Recently the Red Hook Winery in Brooklyn suffered extensive devastating damage as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

Today Abe Schronner, a partner in Red Hook

Winery, stops by to tell us what it's like living in the aftermath of the

storm. Abe's on the show today. Abe is from the Red Hook Winery where he is a partner, Abe, what's going on?

We're in the midst of saving the Red Hook Winery to whatever degree we can.

When I arrived in town about a week ago, the place was absolutely devastated.

And it would be, it was an even worse shape two or three days before I got here.

The team and a bunch of volunteers from the Red Hook Initiative had worked. It seemed like day and night for two or three days to put the place back in some order.

And they accomplished so much that it was possible to come in and start looking at tanks and fermentations and barrels and

taking stock of the place but on the day after the storm it was nothing but pure

devastation. So Sandy really laid a lot of waste to what you've been doing for several years

Waste born from the sea absolutely I mean the place the place looked like a total ride-off on Tuesday morning and I would say within two or three days it looked like it might be possible to salvage something but it took that two or three days to even imagine that.

And this was pretty much right during the middle of the vintage harvest time in terms of getting your grapes into the winery.

It was the tail end the the last fruit of the year had arrived on the Friday before the

storm and how many years back because when I visited a while ago, it felt like there was multiple years

in reserve, in the barrels, waiting to be bottled, things that you were, you know, bringing along

in elevage.

How many years of work are we talking about

potentially lost there we have some wines that are in barrel for more than two years

so there were still some 2010 wines in barrel I think that there might have been one 2009

reasoning so what was at stake was a small amount of wine from 2009 and a significant amount of wine from 2010 and 100% of the wine from 2011 and 2012.

So I mean the growers you work with do they have other outlets or are you their primary buyer?

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