(Wines&Vines) - After four months of intensive effort to clean up the mess Hurricane Sandy left at Red Hook Winery in Brooklyn, the winery’s tasting room is reopening for visitors today. “It’s not perfect, and we have a long road ahead of us,” Red Hook owner Mark Snyder told Wines & Vines. We have to move forward, not just look at the past.” The storm hit New York on Oct. 29, 2012, but the staff at the winery knew three days before that Sandy was expected to bring heavy rain and winds to the region. “We started getting ready for the hurricane on the Saturday before,” tasting room manager Sandra Nicholas remembers. “We tried to lift everything off the ground and get it high enough to be above any water that came in. But with 4 feet of water in the tasting room, we probably lost 50 cases of wine.”