Hannah Goldfield: Black Mountain Wine House, in Carroll Gardens: The New Yorker Black Mountain Wine House, in Carroll Gardens, was designed with two places in mind: Stowe, Vermont, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The owner, Tyler Maganzini, has ties to both - though much of the décor (antique tools, wine keys, jugs) comes from the nineteenth-century Pennsylvania farmhouse where his girlfriend, Regina Myers, who is the manager, grew up; a farmhouse is a farmhouse is a farmhouse. "My parents love the fact that someone's using stuff from the basement," Myers says. On a recent Sunday evening, the cabinlike saloon (complete with a clapboard façade and Adirondack chairs out front) offered shelter from the biting chill, warmed by a working fireplace, golden light seeping through animal-hide lampshades, and good cheer, as a large party of thirty-somethings heralded a pair of latecomers with whooping and clapping. Because the bar sits within two hundred feet of a school, hard liquor is forbidden; to supplement the lengthy wine list, Maganzini and Myers try to "get creative with things that can be considered wine," including vermouth, Lillet, and fino sherry, which they mix with apple cider and ginger beer and call "shider." This is Brooklyn, after all. ♦