Crush Wine & Spirits has the best staff in New York. We take an uncompromising approach to providing you with the best service possible and welcome the opportunity to exceed your expectations for wine buying. While our team includes certified sommeliers, as well as wine and culinary school graduates, we believe our most important asset is our passion. We love wine. Please feel free to ask us questions!

The founders and owners of Crush Wine & Spirits are longtime friends and native New Yorkers with years of experience in fine dining, wine and collectibles. As industry leaders, their vision was a commitment to excellence, combining high professional standards with an unmatched helpful approach, to help you find the best wine & spirits for your palate.

Experiencing wine, after all, should be fun.

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Owners

Drew Nieporent
An internationally acclaimed restaurateur, Drew is owner of the renowned Myriad Restaurant Group, which includes New York favorites such as Nobu, Montrachet, Tribeca Grill, Centrico, and Pulse as well as out of town destinations like Rubicon and the Coach House.

His rigorous standards for service have resulted in countless restaurant awards, including the James Beard Awards for Outstanding Service, Outstanding Wine Service, Best New Restaurant and three Grand Awards from Wine Spectator.

Drew has been honored as Restaurateur of the Year by Bon Appetit, and has received numerous accolades for his humanitarian efforts from such organizations as the American Liver Foundation, the Food Allergy Initiative and the Tourette Syndrome Association. His charitable work has included chairmanship of Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation event in New York, board membership for Meals on Wheels, honorary chairmanship of the City Harvest Food Council and culinary chairmanship of the Momentum AIDS Project.

Bobby Schagrin
A childhood friend of Drew and long-term friend and partner with Josh in the Core Development Group, Bobby is co-owner of Gotta Have It! one of the nation's finest sports and pop culture memorabilia/collectibles boutiques -- located next door to Crush.

Bobby is also an avid wine collector with more than a decade of expertise buying prime collectible wines. Many of the selections in Crush's Cube come from his private holdings and originated with on-release purchases from mailing lists and reputable wine brokers.

Josh Guberman
With family roots in Sonoma County, Josh has traveled and stayed in and around California wine country for more than 20 years. Having experienced the better part of the California wine resurgence, Josh offers a singular perspective on where California wines have been and where they are headed.

Currently the CEO of the Core Development Group, a New York-based real estate management and development company, Josh has also founded the firm Franchise Fixtures and previously served a Vice President of Operations for a clothing chain. With more than twenty years of experience in the retail and real estate businesses, Josh executed the design coordination and build-out of Crush's flagship 57th Street location in concert with Bobby Schagrin

Management

Tom Stephenson, General Manager & Director of Operations
While Stephen and Joe are off finding the incredible wine, Tom is responsible for making sure that you discover the wine that fits your palate best and that you enjoy your visit at Crush.

Tom began his career at Accenture as a management consultant, helping large telecoms improve their post-merger operational efficiency. He later became the Director of Marketing for New York-based Audium, one of the few remaining Silicon Alley startups and a leading voice application development software company.

However, an introductory wine class taken during his senior year of college with Professor Steve Mutkoski planted a powerful seed, and over the years his interest in wine grew into a passion. A part-time job moonlighting as a marketing consultant for his friend Nancy Maniscalco (of Nancy's Wines for Food) strengthened his interest in small, artisanal producers and led him, logically, to Crush.