Crew

Whiskey
I was a Red Hook street kitty until I suckered LeNell in one night with my flips and cunning ways. Next thing I know, she's got me fixed and ridded of all fleas. I come and go as I please, even though I call LeNell's my home base. I'm still wondering what happened to my rough and tumble boyfriend Pierre? Oh, what fun nights we shared in the junk yard next door! I'm a great mouser and very good at looking cute to draw customers into the store. You gotta dog? I'm a bit of badass and just love to tease a dog.

Judy

I'm a Hooker, a Red Hooker, that is. Been in the neighborhood a long time, boasting 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Famous for my soul food, I won LeNell's heart early on by sneakin' my home cookin' by the store. Chitlins, ribs, catfish, greens...I love sharing the joys of cooking.

My job is to keep the store clean and stocked. Who do you think keeps that pissin' fountain runnin' day in and day out? We laugh, we cut up, we have a great time at LeNell's learning and sharing about wine, spirits, and life. I wrote this little poem up the first week I came on board here:

ATTENTION ALL SHOPPERS
A unique wine and spirit store
With tasty treats you love and more
Come on down and look around.
With easy directions from any town
You will be pleased.  And you will tell
Everyone about LeNELL'S!!!
So check it out and you will find
That you, too, will come back all the time
I've said enough  No more to say
SO TO ALL HAVE A LOVELY DAY.

Amanda

I'm a new kid on the block. I scooted my boots up here from Texas a few years back and happily found my way to LeNell's. She says it was the boots that immediately won her over when I showed up for my interview. I'm a student at Hunter College, and you could say a student of LeNell's, as well. I don't know everything, but by the time she's done with me, you can bet your buttons I will know a helluva lot. In this line of work, though, LeNell says you never know it all...there's always something to learn. Come in and show me your tattoo and ask about our tattoo discounts.


Ian
I grew up in Northern California where they wean you on wine. So I’d like to think I know a bit about the juice. I’m a writer, an ex-chef, one-time cabbie, world adventurer, mercenary soldier, deep-sea diver, avid reader of the likes of Gombrowicz, Balaño and Pynchon and happy return employee at LeNell’s. I’m back after three years when I started grad school in literature and finished a book that makes Beckett read like Crichton. So if you don’t want to hear about a good red to go with your lamb chops, or why the Four Roses single barrel is so kick ass, I’d be happy to discuss the influence of early American radical-democrat humor on Pynchon’s later novels.

Damon
I'm from the smallest town in the world- Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, pop. 402. I moved to Brooklyn last year to play music and party. So far, I'm a fucking success!!! I've spent the last decade and a half of my life playing in rock n' roll bands and traveling around the country. Whisk(e)y, wine, rock n' roll, old cars, records, scooters, my ol' lady... that's what I'm into. If you have any 60's-70's garage/soul/psychedelic records, lefty guitars, or bottles of whisky that you're tired of, send them my way!