A new wine bar on Depot Street has been approved by the Stowe Development Review Board.
Holly Rochefort of Stowe, who trained at Boston University’s Elizabeth Bishop School of Wine Studies, will own the bar, called Vine Yasa.
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A new wine bar on Depot Street has been approved by the Stowe Development Review Board.
Holly Rochefort of Stowe, who trained at Boston University’s Elizabeth Bishop School of Wine Studies, will own the bar, called Vine Yasa.
The bar will seat about 20 patrons indoors and possibly 16 outdoors and is designed for wine connoisseurs age 30 and over.
Vine Yasa will serve a variety of wines starting at $8 per glass, plus cheeses and other wine-complementary foods. It will also offer soft lounge music.
Rochefort said the bar’s main goal is “wine education,” so each glass ordered will come with a card about the wine’s origins and suggested food pairings.
The bar will be open from Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 9, Friday and Saturday from 4 to 10, and Sunday from 2 to 10.
Parking was the main issue for the development review board when it reviewed the plan July 6. The bar has only two parking spaces, and employees will use both.
Stowe zoning laws require at least six off-street parking spaces for the bar. Three will be at an adjacent building owned by John Steel, whose hours of operation will not conflict with those of the bar. Four were proposed at Dr. Palmer Peet’s chiropractic office across Depot Street.
Concerns about congestion from on-street parking were raised by Ken Biedermann, general manager of Ampersand Properties, which owns the nearby Green Mountain Inn.
In the end, the board decided that the parking plan was adequate, and additional spaces on the street or the nearby Stowe Post Office parking lot would be available.
Apartment, retail
The board reviewed a proposal for a new building adjacent to the Partridge Inn on Mountain Road.
The new building would have about 41,600 square feet of floor space, containing four two-bedroom apartments and retail space.
Board member Charlie Lusk criticized the parking plan for the new building, saying it was arranged “more to meet the requirements than to actually be effective,” and criticized the driveway plan as too barren.
The board asked applicant David Wolfgang to add trees and plants to the plan, and have the site evaluated for storm-water and erosion control.
The revised plans will be reviewed July 20.
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