New Winery Blog: Foggy Bridge Winery

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More and more, new wineries have a blog before they have wine to sell.  Capozzi Winery was probably the first, and Foggy Bridge Winery is the latest example:

  Housed in a former 1920s airplane hangar and Army machine shop located on Crissy Field, Foggy Bridge Winery will offer an authentic winery experience including a working winery, tasting room, casual café and 110-seat restaurant, all overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay.

Their initial wines, made by Daryl Groom, will be released in fall of 2008.  So far, there are only a couple of postings from Holly Myers (Director of Marketing and a principal), spaced a couple of months apart.  It sounds like an interesting experiment (the first urban winery in a US National Park), so I hope that they will step up their posting frequency.  There have to be some good stories in there somewhere.  The owner of Foggy Bridge is John Kontrabecki, a commercial real estate developer.

My take is that Foggy Bridge is more of a tourist attraction than a winery, with great views of the Bay, a restaurant/canteen, wine for purchase, and (incidentally) a working winery.  Will the wines attract a following?  It remains to be seen.  I don't think wine sales alone will make this winery a financial success, although they do have some interesting wine club options, including barrel futures (limited to 50 "owners").

Foggy Bridge's blog becomes the latest additions to The List, our comprehensive index of winery blogs.