Everyone’s toasting to this idea.

A new poll shows some 80 percent of New Yorkers want the option of buying wine in grocery stores — but the effort to uncork such sales is likely to face the grapes of wrath of the powerful liquor store lobby, which has stamped out such efforts in the past.

The proposed legislation would make it legal for supermarkets to stock wine, upending a longstanding restriction that limits most sales to liquor stores.

The switch has a the support of an eye-popping 83% of New York City voters who said they support allowing supermarkets to sell wine — as do 78% of all residents statewide, according to a new poll.

The survey, conducted by Siena College, shows the growing support to boost accessibility to the fermented grape is going to make it more difficult to limit where wine can be sold.

However, several lobbying organizations linked to the liquor store industry are vowing to put a cork in the plan — and are expected to spend in the seven figure range on efforts to convince Albany lawmakers to vote against the bill.

They argue that competition for big supermarkets could put liquor stores out of business.

“This would be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off in our industry in New York state,” Michael Correra, executive director of the Metropolitan Package Store Association, told Spectrum News recently. “It would be catastrophic.”

He noted that when such a measure was approved by Colorado voters in 2022, hundreds of independent liquor stores closed down. He also claimed in the report that liquor stores are better at stopping underage drinking than grocery stores.

 “We do a great job of selling it, merchandising it and protecting it and handling it for the public,” he said.

One booze merchant said grocery stores should stay in their lane and sell food, and let liquor store owners sell wine and spirits.

“I am totally against it. We are liquor stores, that’s our business, that’s what we sell. Let us handle it,” Jimmy Kishor, manager at Best Liquors on Hillside Avenue.   

“They should stick to selling food. We can’t sell food. We can’t sell water. We can’t sell beverages. We can only sell liquor and wine. The bottom line is why should they sell our products if we can’t sell theirs?”

This opposition — which stopped a similar plan 15 years ago to allow supermarket sales — is being fought this time by wine lobbyists and reps for grocery stores, who sources say are spending as much as $1 million on efforts back the bill.

“We support selling wine in our grocery stores. It would expand the brand of wine — particularly wine made in New York State,” said John Catsimatidis, whose Red Apple Group owns the Gristedes Supermarket chain.

Big Apple grocery stores already sell beer and even some wine with low alcohol content.

Forty other states — including the District of Columbia — allow wine sales in their grocery stores, advocates say.

One factor that could change the balance this time, as opposed to 15 years ago, is that liquor stores no longer have a powerful backer, longtime chairman of the state Conservative Party Mike Long. The Brooklyn liquor store owner died in 2022.

Not every liquor store owner opposed the change. Fanny Maldonado, who owns the 947 Deli Grocery in Jamaica, Queens, said the more wine available, the merrier.

“If I want to sell it, I should be allowed,” said Maldonado, who sells a few low-alcohol wine beverages.

The “New York State of Wine” coalition — which includes grocery stores, the Farm Bureau representing wineries and the New York State Business Council — lauded the overwhelming public support to expand access to wine in grocery stores.

Both sides have brought on high-powered lobbying firms to the tunes of hundreds of thousands if not in the millions of dollars over the last several years. The liquor stores and well funded grocery markets like Wegmans are behind the big bucks lobbying push.

They are backing the latest legislation — sponsored by Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) and Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter (D-Syracuse) — that would allow New Yorkers to buy wine in grocery stores and encourage the sale of New York-made wines by slashing the stores’ annual license renewal fees based on their sales.

Correra criticized the poll as biased as it was sponsored by the wine coalition.

“Obviously when you pay for a poll, you get the results that you want,” Correra said.

Siena pollster Don Levy confirmed the wine coalition paid for the poll questions, which were not released publicly along with the rest of the poll’s crosstabs earlier this week. Levy said it’s not uncommon for Siena to conduct “fee for service” polling for private clients who may choose whether or not to release the results to all their questions publicly.

The measure, if approved, restricts the sales to grocery stores with a minimum of 5,000 square feet of floor area.

This provision eliminates smaller convenience stores, drug stores, gas station mini-marts and corner delis/bodegas.

Also, 65% of a store’s sales must be food-related to sell wine, thus eliminating big-box retailers and superstores – which may have grocery sections.

The restrictions would reduce the number of stores eligible to sell wine from 9,000 in prior legislation to 1,900.

Meanwhile, the bill could open up new opportunities for New York winemakers and grape growers to sell their products.

New York is the third largest wine producing state in the country after California and Washington and has the four most wineries.

But very few wines made from the Finger Lakes and Long Island are showcased in liquor stores in America’s largest market, New York City, as The Post previously reported.