An intoxicating opportunity awaits in Duchess County
In Duchess County, New York, a 343 acre farm with distillery and tasting room and steeped in an interesting history, is looking for its next owner.
During Prohibition it was the area's most successful bootlegging operation run by the notorious gangster, Dutch Schultz who was famously played on screen by Dustin Hoffman in the 1991 American biographical gangster film, Billy Bathgate. The current owners revived the Moonshine - and apparently it's better than ever! - and they also do a super Bourbon.
The location is fabulous: the property neighbours the increasingly popular Mashomack Fish & Game Preserve Club, a 1,900-acre private sporting preserve and social club. The picturesque hamlet of Pine Plains is within a thirty minute drive to the increasingly hip cultural and dining hubs of Hudson and Rhinebeck and only two short hours to Manhattan.
Through the years it has been a productive farm raising turkeys, chickens, pigs and cows, potatoes and corn.
It's waiting for someone with vision to perhaps keep the distillery and tasting room going, revive it as a full-time farm, or open a sprawling indoor-outdoor event space.
On the market with Andrew Gates at Houlihan Lawrence and yours for $5,500,000.
Cheers!