A New York institution since 1947, Morrell Wine Group has expanded from a small wine store on East 49th to a flagship retail store and wine bar at One Rockefeller Center and fine wine auction division. Today, the wine bar features 100 wines by the glass, one of the largest in the city, and the company’s massive Rare Wine Vault includes some of the most difficult-to-find bottles in the world. Morrell & Company owes its origins to brothers Samuel and Joseph Morrell, who entered the American wine trade in the 1920s as salesmen for an old-fashioned Virginia winery. When Prohibition hit, the brothers remained active as vintners to New York City’s churches, synagogues and physicians. In 1947, the brothers parted ways, and Samuel opened a small wine store on East 49th Street with his wife, Charlotte. Over the next seven decades, three generations of Morrells made their careers as merchant vintners to Gotham City’s wine lovers.