A Bottle, A Block, A Beacon: Fermented Grapes BK and the Woman Behind It

A Bottle, A Block, A Beacon: Fermented Grapes BK and the Woman Behind It

On Vanderbilt Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Prospect Heights stands Fermented Grapes, a wine shop and decades long staple in an ever changing community. Sandwiched between a reflexology spa on their left and an apartment building and barbershop on their right, Fermented Grapes planted roots in the area in 2004 and switched hands in 2021. The original owners, a black woman and a Jewish woman, made waves by creating the first wine and spi…