A new wine bar will replaced the storied Spuyten Duyvil, which closed this spring.

Eater reports the new bar, Rude Mouth, is the product of Ava Trilling, which previously worked at Four Horseman. Joining her is sister Sophie Trilling. Together the pair founded the Rude Mouth brand in 2020.

Rude Mouth started hosting pop ups at various bars in 2021, with the first hosted at Palmetto in August 2021, with a focus on low intervention wine. The last one was hosted at Nightmoves on Grand Street at the end of October.

The pair were talking about opening a wine bar back in 2022 when they spoke to Vinepair. In the interview they explain their goal is an accessible experience without judgment or wine snobbery. They told Busboy that they found wine was “often an exclusive commodity,” which seems particularly true with natural, organic, and biodynamic wine.

Trilling is the wine director at Nightmoves and wine manager at the Four Horseman, meaning its a natural next step to open a bar dedicated to the drink.

Rude Mouth is opening where neighborhood institution Spuyten Duyvil stood for two decades. The bar opened as a destination for craft beer, and in many ways was ahead of its time, an oddity when most bars in the area were known for $2 PBRs or shot-and-tallboy combos. Now, of course, craft beer is widely available just about everywhere. The pandemic was unkind to the bar, which had reinvented itself as an Amaro bar. On the final weekend, the bar was crowded and rapidly running out of beers as the staff sold out and never restocked.

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A Look Back

Spuyten Duyvil from the street in April of 2024 on closing weekend

The compact bar was busy with people who had say goodbye. Some people mentioned having traveled from out of state. The bar was running low on many bottles of wine and beer on the last afternoon of service.

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