A year after the iconic New York fine wine store Sherry-Lehmann was shut down, the landlord has been given the go-ahead to empty wine from the store. According to the New York Post, the landlord of wine retailer’s Park Avenue store has been granted permission to clear out fixtures and fittings, and leftover bottles of wine, from the store, which has been closed for more than a year. The landlord which owns the wine store’s building claims that rent has not been paid on the property since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, according to a lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court last summer. But it’s not just the store’s current owner— Shyda Gilmer — that is being sued. Various previous owners of the wine firm (who have long since sold off their shares and interests in the company) are also being asked to settle the debt. Glorious Sun is demanding payment from the store’s previous owners, alleging that they are “guarantors” on the lease and therefore liable for the rent debt “even if they are no longer around”. A New York judge has now approved an order of ejectment to Sherry-Lehmann with the store, which has failed to pay US$4.8m in rent. Glorious Sun is now able to retake possession as a result. It comes a year after the retailer, which had been operating since 1934, was shut by the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) after it discovered it was selling alcohol with
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