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THE BOTTLES ON KINGSTON Wine Co.’s Instagram feed look nothing like the wines our parents drank. Classic shades of red and white give way to deep, burnished amber; electric, raspberry red; and nearly opaque, cloudy yellow. Producers
go beyond California, Tuscany, and Bordeaux to include Slovakia and Upstate New York. Wine labels look like miniature works of abstract art or album covers, and bottles are sealed with caps as often as corks. Even the language used to describe the wines eschews conventional wine-geek speak, dropping pop-culture references as easily as food pairings.
With 12,900 followers on the
social media platform, Kingston Wine Co. is one of the Hudson Valley’s growing slate of natural-wine-focused stores. “We’re kind of like an indie bookstore or music shop; we focus
on indie wines,” says co-owner Michael Drapkin, who opened the shop in 2013. “Natural, organic,
and biodynamic wines are the focus. Ninety percent or more of our wines are dedicated to those three categories, with natural being the heaviest of
the three.”
Michael Drapkin, Kingston Wine Co.
We're kind of like an indie
bookstore or music shop;
we focus on indie wines.
— Michael Drapkin
20 THE VALLEY TABLE MARCH – MAY 2020
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