New Bridge to Nowhere

This is an update 6/28/2023 to the story of the bridge.

After a tough day, I decided to get a glass of wine. My wife suggested the Wine Works in Marlton NJ. I like the Wine Works because of the ability to sample wines for free.  When I went to the sample machine, my photograph of the Unknown Bridge jumped out at me. The label on a bottle called the Abram’s Bridge caught my eye and I almost had a heart attach. I had sold the rights to a wine company over 5 years ago and had no idea where the image was going to be used, except that it would be used on a limited number of approximately 150 cases of wine. I was so surprised to see it on the machine. Not only that, but I would have never found it in the thousands of bottles of wine in the such large store. What’s the chances of me finding it? Ok, back to the picture and the story behind the “New Bridge”.

It all started with a trip to meetup a photography group at the town of Greenville, New Jersey to do a photography group shoot. I was using Google Maps AP to get there. After the town of Salem it happened, I followed a country road and then where I got lost, it was a dead end at a very old bridge. I stopped and tried to figure out what to do next. Nothing came to mind, but the bridge called to me to take a photo. So I got out of my car and photographed this bridge. The bridge had no name that I could find, maybe a trip to the historic center would tell me more information on the bridge and the site. In researching the bridge it had no name, I need to go further, by going to the Salem Historic building and asking questions. I love this bridge for some unknown reason, maybe because my grandfather Hanson T. Coey worked on bridges. I went back recently and the bridge is still there in a state of disrepair. It saddened me because I found out they want to demolish it.

More photographs and info is coming soon.

“Winemaker Neil Koch has worked with superstar Philippe Melka at benchmark Napa Cab houses like Seavey Vineyards, Bryant Family and Vineyard 29 and helped make the bold whites and Chardonnays of Lewis Cellars as assistant winemaker there. Between his connections with many best-of-the-best Napa Cab winemakers and experience as a professional grape broker, Neil is able to consistently source breathtakingly good raw materials for his own wines under The Dude and Abram’s Bridge labels. And never more so than in vintage 2020, when even very, very, high-end fruit was sold off and barrels of completely untainted juice normally destined for $200+ wines were available to guys, like Neil, who knew who to ask and could be trusted to never reveal his sources.

The result is an utterly luxurious and stylish Napa Cabernet that surely smells and tastes like a $75+ bottle, but will cost you a lot less. It’s 93% Cabernet Sauvignon from prime sites on the valley floor and also from Howell Mountain. Add in 7% Cabernet Franc from a name you’d certainly know on Prichard Hill and 15 months in 35% new French oak casks and something special is ready to land in your glass. With excellent lushness and depth to the dark blackcurrant, blackberry and black cherry fruit and plenty of spice and dusty chocolate as well, it’s inviting to sip solo now, built to stand up to rich meats, and will improve for at least a decade. Truly outstanding value. “

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New photo from 11-14-2010

I when back recently and did a drone photo shoot of the bridge on 08-28-2020
I wanted to see if it was still there after ten years after the original shoot on
11-14-2010

Nice view

 

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