Seventeen Jewels

By the glass

Seventeen open. These five first.

Seventeen bottles are open at the bar every night, one for each jewel. The five below are the ones June pours first, and they change with the day of the week.

A hand pouring red wine from a bottle into a stemmed glass on the zinc bar, shelf lamps glowing behind.

SaturdaySaturday

Open from noon. The list most people come back for.

Slack Tide Brut Nature
Marrow & Finch · North Fork, New York
Green apple, lemon peel, bread crust
$13a glass
The bottle, to take home: $42
Chablis Vieilles Vignes
Domaine Tessandier · Burgundy, France
Lemon, oyster shell, long and salty
$13a glass
The bottle, to take home: $36
Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo
Azienda Collemoro · Abruzzo, Italy
Sour cherry, blood orange, almond
$8a glass
The bottle, to take home: $21
Regulator Cabernet Franc
Marrow & Finch · North Fork, New York
Raspberry, pencil shavings, green pepper
$11a glass
The bottle, to take home: $32
Diecisiete Reserva 2018
Bodegas Valdecierzo · Rioja Alta, Spain
Dried cherry, leather, vanilla
$15a glass
The bottle, to take home: $44

All seventeen, and the rest of the menu

The shop

Everything on the shelf goes home. Or gets opened here.

Wine, cheese, pantry jars and gift boxes, packed at the counter. Collect it at the bar tonight, have it walked over in the village, or ship it anywhere in New York.

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2022Red · Cabernet Franc

Regulator Cabernet Franc

Marrow & Finch, North Fork of Long Island, New York

$32

2023White · Riesling

Shale Dry Riesling

Kettle Point Vineyards, Finger Lakes, New York

$24

2021Sparkling · Chardonnay

Slack Tide Brut Nature

Marrow & Finch, North Fork of Long Island, New York

$42

2023Orange · Pinot Gris

Brass Skin-Contact Pinot Gris

Marrow & Finch, North Fork of Long Island, New York

$28

A long golden wedge of alpine cheese with a brown brushed rind on the zinc bar.

Cow · Alpine, cooked and pressed

Comté, 24 months

A village fruitière, Jura, France

from $11

A tall wedge of blue cheese standing on the zinc bar, blue-green veins through an ivory paste.

Cow · Blue

Harbor Blue

Dunmore Creamery, Hudson Valley, New York

from $9

Six jars left this week8 oz jar

Hot Honey

Turnspit, Huntington, New York

$13

4.2 oz tin

Sardines in Olive Oil

Conservas Maré Alta, Matosinhos, Portugal

$8

An open kraft gift box on the zinc bar with three paper-wrapped cheeses, a sleeve of crackers and a jar of honey.

Cheese for two or six

The Counter Box

Cut by Wren that morning, Seventeen Jewels

from $64

An open kraft gift box on the zinc bar holding a red and a white bottle in wood wool, a green ribbon beside it.

Two bottles

The Tuesday Pair

Packed at the counter, Seventeen Jewels

from $58

32The whole shopTwelve wines, eight cheeses, eight from the pantry, four boxes.

Pick up at the barFree. Ready in twenty minutes whenever we are open.
Delivered in the villageHuntington 11743, on foot or by bicycle. $8, free over $75.
ShippedTwo days, $18 flat. Wine ships within New York only.
Opened hereAny bottle on the shelf, at the bar, for the shelf price plus $12.

The cheese counter

Four feet of cheese, mild to strong.

Eight cheeses, most from within two hundred miles, cut to order by Wren Hartwell. Walk the counter left to right and they get stronger: each one has its six inches.

The four-foot glass and brass cheese counter at the end of the zinc bar, eight cheeses in a row with blank paper tags.

A small white bloomy-rind round on the zinc bar, one wedge pulled away to show the soft center.

Cow · Bloomy rind

First Frost

Fourpenny Farm, Columbia CountySoft, mild and creamy. The easy one.

from $9

An ash-coated goat cheese log on the zinc bar with one thick slice laid flat beside it.

Goat · Ash-ripened log

Cinder

Low Meadow Goat Dairy, MattituckFresh and tangy, like a firmer chèvre.

from $8

Cow · Alpine, cooked and pressed

Comté, 24 months

A village fruitière, JuraFirm, nutty and a little sweet. Everyone likes it.

from $11

A rough, hand-broken chunk of pale gold clothbound cheddar on the zinc bar, cloth still on one side.

Cow · Clothbound cheddar

Clothbound Cheddar, 18 months

Wickfield Farm, Orange CountyA proper sharp cheddar, dry and crumbly.

from $8

A wedge of sheep's milk tomme on the zinc bar, its grey rind marked with a basket weave.

Sheep · Natural-rind tomme

Shepherd's Tomme

Hollow Oak Sheep Dairy, Delaware CountyLike a gentler Manchego: firm, sweet, a little nutty.

from $12

A wedge of amber aged gouda flecked with white crystals on the zinc bar.

Cow · Aged gouda

Aged Gouda, 3 years

A farmhouse dairy, North HollandHard, sweet and crunchy, close to caramel.

from $10

A small square washed-rind cheese with an orange rind on the zinc bar, cut to show its soft ivory center.

Out of seasonCow · Washed rind

Bellringer

Stonecrop Dairy, Addison CountyStrong smell, gentle taste. Soft enough to spoon.

from $10

Cow · Blue

Harbor Blue

Dunmore Creamery, Hudson ValleyA creamy blue, strong but not harsh.

from $9

MildStrong

All eight, with cuts and prices

Seating

Stools for whoever walks in. Booths for whoever plans.

The twelve stools at the zinc bar are never booked: if the door is open, come in. The four booths along the wall hold two to six and can be reserved up to a week ahead.

Two oxblood velvet booths set into the green paneled wall, each with a marble table, a small brass lamp and two glasses.

Find a booth this week

Party

Day

Booths

Opening the book.

Reservations by Resy. The page is ours; the book, the holds and the confirmation are theirs.

Events

Tastings, classes and a crate of records.

Four things on the calendar this season, all at the long table or the bar. Three are small and ticketed. Thursdays are free.

The long oak table in the shop set for a tasting: rows of small glasses of sparkling wine, slates of cheese and candles.

The room and its name

Why seventeen jewels?

A jewel in a watch is a bearing: a bead of ruby, drilled, that a steel pivot turns in for decades without wearing out. A movement can run on seven. A good one has seventeen, one at every point where metal would otherwise grind on metal. Elias Hartwell stamped the number inside every case he serviced.

+22 / 17
The center wheel
It turns once an hour and carries the minute hand. One jewel above, one below.
+24 / 17
The third wheel
It passes the mainspring's push down the line. Two more.
+26 / 17
The fourth wheel
Once a minute. The seconds hand rides on it.
+28 / 17
The escape wheel
The wheel that ticks. It lets the power out one tooth at a time.
+210 / 17
The pallet fork
A small lever that rocks back and forth, on two jewelled pivots.
+212 / 17
The pallet stones
Two slivers of ruby that catch and release the escape wheel. This is the tick you hear.
+113 / 17
The impulse jewel
One pin of ruby on the balance that knocks the fork each way.
+417 / 17
The balance wheel
The heart. Two jewels to hold its staff and two caps to seal them: seventeen.

The walnut regulator clock with its brass pendulum, on the green wall above the watchmaker's scarred oak bench.

The room

Hartwell & Sons mended watches here from 1926 to 2019.

The bench, the regulator clock and the brass shop bell never left the building. In September 2026 the front room reopened as a wine bar, a cheese counter and a bottle shop. Wren Hartwell, the watchmaker's great-granddaughter, runs the counter. June Farrell buys every bottle. The clock still keeps the time.

The whole story of the shop

Social

What came in this week, what got opened, and who is playing records on Thursday.

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First Frost came in this morning. It will not see Sunday.
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Eleven seconds of the bar at nine o'clock. Sound off, glass full.
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June re-shelved by mood instead of region. We are giving it a week.
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Thursday's crate has arrived. It is mostly organ trios and nobody is complaining.
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The Regulator. Named for the clock, poured in both rooms on the lane.
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Seventeen pieces, one ribbon. The Whole Movement takes Wren about two minutes.

The family's other rooms

Two more doors, same family.

The Merrows run three rooms. Sable Room is through the second door on this lane, and Turnspit has been roasting chickens on Gristmill Row since 1994. One gift card works in all three rooms.