Exclusive | Clients of NYC wine shop Sherry-Lehmann finally getting their wine back including a stash of Bordeaux worth $80K

After more than two years, Sherry-Lehmann’s long-suffering customers are finally starting to get their wine back.The iconic Park Avenue vintner – which shut its doors for good in March 2023 as it failed to renew its liquor license after 89 years in business – famously went silent as hundreds of customers of Wine Caves, its decades-old storage service, clamored in vain for their prize vintages.Now, after a flurry of headlines, a pair of FBI raids and a drawn-out courtroom battle between Sherry-Lehmann’s owners and its landlord, the expensive booze is beginning to trickle out again – and it’s sweet.“I’ll share one of these bottles with my father, who is 101,” said one Boston-based collector who just secured his stash valued at $80,000 – including a case of 1982 Petrus and another of assorted prize Bordeaux including Chateau Mouton Rothschild.“These were the first serious bottles I bought and I bought them in the 80s,” the collector told The Post, asking not to be identified.“My father gave me a book by Robert Parker, the most influential wine critic in the world.

I saw these two wines had been given 100-point scores by Parker.It was an impulse buy.”During the past several weeks, dozens of other Wine Caves customers have begun to collect their long-lost vintages from the basement of a nondescript office building in Rockland County –  the latest bizarre twist in a process that is now being supervised by Sherry-Lehmann’s former landlord.Hong Kong-based real estate firm Glorious Sun remains Sherry-Lehmann’s biggest creditor – still owed $5 million in back rent on the corner retail space it occupied at the foot of its glass-and-steel office tower at 505 Park Ave.

When the store closed, Wine Caves became unreachable.Sherry-Lehmann transferred the prize vintages – some 32,000 bottles worth $16 million, according to court documents – in 2022 to Blue Hill Plaza, a corporate park in Pearl River, NY – where most of them have remained...