(NYPost) - Now this is a wine to die for. A brave Brooklyn man is cultivating a massive, 50-foot grapevine a few short blocks from one of the world’s most polluted waterways, the Gowanus Canal. There he produces a potent potable he’s labeled Vinum Nostrum, Latin for “Our Wine.” “People are afraid of everything -- from secondhand smoke to wine made near the canal,” said Joseph Mariano, 73. “I once fell into the canal -- and I’m still here.” Mariano, a retired computer programmer for the Department of Environmental Protection, has been an amateur winemaker since 1994, and said he’s suffered no ill effects from consuming his creation.