• From The Suffolk Times
The liquor license of controversial Cutchogue winery Vineyard 48 was suspended for three weeks ... as part of a State Liquor Authority ruling over complaints from neighbors and local police. But, that suspension and the $10,000 fine that followed is over already, having began on April 5 and ended on April 26. And, town officials and neighbors say the punishment didn’t go far enough.
“The $10,000 fine is nothing more than the cost of doing business for the Vineyard,” said Mary-Beth Shipman, who lives across the street from Vineyard 48 and has been a witness in proceedings against them. “It’s a slap on the wrist. Quite honestly, after four years worth of work by the SLA attorney to bring this case to fruition, to have that be the end result, with all the evidence there was, boggles my mind.”
The winery -- which neighbors say is more of a nightclub than a winery -- is located at 18910 Route 48 in the Long Island community. It had gone back on the SLA’s agenda on March 1 as a result of numerous state Alcohol Beverage Control law referrals by Southold Town.
The complaints, which date back to 2012 in some cases, ranged from loud music to overcrowding to people urinating on neighboring properties, and even cases of people having sex outside the establishment or on neighboring properties.
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