Meet the Universe’s—and Brooklyn’s—First Rooftop Vintage Wine

About a month ago, I climbed the steps to the rooftop of Buidling 275 at Brooklyn Navy Yards. Before me was a blazing-white surface, populated with 42 rectangular planters, inside of which five varietals of Bordeaux red grapes grew. On the space’s Eastern edge, a few picnic tables were shaded by a tent—necessary that day; the sun was direct and unrelenting—and Devin Shomaker, co-founder of Rooftop Reds, the world’s and therefore the (probably) the galaxy’s firs