Shiraz Merlot Clairet…read moreCabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Soave Pinot Noir Verdelho or Riesling? Whatever your choice of wine, this branch of Oddbins has a great selection of European, English and New World wines. Prices range from £7-£15 for a great bottle of red, white or rose but they usually have special offers on for around a fiver too. The staff are friendly and knowledgable and more than happy to recommend new wines if you're looking for something fruity, spicy, dry or sweet. They also have regular tastings on Saturday afternoons where you can sample new lines. The reason I've given it an extra star is simple: last time I popped in they were playing a classic Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra album. How many other off licenses offer customers sublime wine and sublime music? My point exactly!

This place gets 10/10 for knowledgeable and friendly staff! I shop here whenever I want a really…read morespecial bottle of wine for a special occasion and they're always soo helpful! They really do know everything about wine.. Inside out. I know nothing about wine, and this is obvious, but they never make you feel silly or patronised! Instead they put everything in layman's terms to help you find the right wine for your meal or occasion. They can even recommend a wine to suit whatever you're planning to cook for your dinner. They have a huge selection of different wines and their prices range from about £5.99 up to £50+ Well worth a look and getting a nice bottle or red for a treat, a present or a special occasion!

As long as you don't mind queuing with a tramp for what you imagine is some much needed booze at…read more3am - and lets face it if you're getting more booze at this time then one more tramp is going to bother you - then this is the place for you. Swift Drinks offers 24 hr booze supply for those who just don't know when enough is enough and God bless them for it. The saviour of many a Saturday night/Sunday Morning when town just isn't enough for a good time! What can I say there is often a grizzled, goblin-like man in a glass booth despatching drink and fags to people with a menacing, bitter quality because, well they're trapped behind a glass booth and you're all partying til the early hours.

Swift Drinks is an absolute lifesaver for those that refuse to stop drinking when the clubs in town…read moreclose and boot everyone to the streets! It's pretty much an all night off licence, fashioned a little bit like an Australian bottle shop! Keep your wits about you when you buy from here though as sometimes weird characters hang around this place in the middle of the night. A friend of mine almost got mugged walking away from this place with a crate of beer; luckily he managed to get to a black cab in good time! This place sells beers, cigarettes, wines, and spirits throughout the night and is very reasonable priced considering! They also sell condoms, if you're caught short on the way home from a club with someone you've picked up! They sell loads of snacks too! Crisps, chocolate, sweets etc! Great for those with the munchies in the middle if the night! Your can get a can of Fosters for £1.10, and I think this is the cheapest beer they sell. Just look out for pissed people after a kick off in this area late at night!

I find this quite a strange off license. All the alcohol is behind a glass screen and you have to…read moretell the person behind the glass screen what you want and then they get it for you. I've actually never seen anything like it before but I suppose it makes sense. They have really good deals on beers and cider here but the deals on the wine aren't that great. It's the same as a supermarket, even a little bit more expensive. Although the out of town ones might be cheaper. Still a cheap and handy place to get booze.

Great offie with loads to choose from at fab prices - take a fiver and you'll buy enough for a…read moredecent bevvy for the evening. Lots of good offers, nice enough staff too. Definately my first choice when getting the beers in.

The name Euro Wines makes it sound as though it would stock and sell a selection of fine alcoholic…read morebeverages from across Europe but this is really not the case if I am going to be honest. This place has nothing distinctive about it all so there is no real reason to go here as opposed to any other off licence or supermarket. The outside doesn't look particularly appealing and inside the place is fairly plain and I would be lying if I said there was anything inside which really caught my eye. Obviously as a student I have always been keen to look for cheap booze and as such I have visited a lot of off licences and this one did not really stick out in my mind at all. The name seems to suggest a lot more than the place actually delivers and as such I found this place to be a real let down.

Adjacent to Liverpool's China Town is this handy convenience store. Euro Wines not only stocks a…read morenice variety of booze and a good few groceries, because of its proximity to Merseyside's Oriental capital it has a few surprises too, such as Chinese ingredients, unusual vegetables and plenty of noodles. As well as wines you'll find a vast array of spirits here and beers too, and the staff have always been friendly and pleasant when I've popped in. All in all it gives weight to the term 'convenience' with its handy location for a lot of nearby urban dwellers and those potentially heading into China Town.

There are, unfortunately, not enough speciality booze shops in Liverpool - and I amaware how such a…read morestatement makes me sound like a complete p**shead, but hey ho I like a good tipple! Oddbins is sadly the closest we have in my experience of such a store but luckily this outlet does have a good selection of beers, wines and spirits as well as very helpful staff - a single, in my opinion, innocent question concerning whiskey lead to a half hour discussion on the subject, not a lecture mind but still... If planning a party, or maybe an important meal - to be on Come Dine With Me would have to include a stop here! - this is defo the place to visit.

Well there seem to be a few 24 hour off licences popping up around the city these days, which is…read moregreat, I only wish they were all open when I was at university so that I didn't have to mission to Duke Street twice a week! But still, this place sells crisps, sweets, magazines, newspapers, skins, tobacco and a full range of alcoholic beverages right through the early hours of the night. It's a popular venue for picking up a few beers in the way home from the pub if you can fit a few more in your gullet! It's slightly more pricey than your average off licenses, but I guess you'll pay it if there's nowhere else to go. The staff are very friendly and helpful and the beers chilled so I'd recommend this place to all the drinkers of the night!

This is a newsagents, an office license, and a grocery in one. They don't have *everything* but…read morethey come pretty darned close. You can find all your usual magazines and papers in here, cold drinks, snacks (crisps, nuts, chocolate, sweets, etc), tinned foods, toilet roll, basic toiletries, etc. It seemed to me that things were priced pretty decently and I would recommend this shop if you live close by and don't want to travel further to a Tesco, Asda, or other big shop.

How can this place lie without review! It's a godsend to some of us! This is the ten till ten on…read moreHardman Street! It sells all your student wants and needs and holds the jet to all your alcoholic, stodge related aspirations! They sell tinned beef burgers for god's sake! Not to mention a wide range of beers, wines and spirits, at very reasonable prices. They also serve cigarettes, rolling papers, and tobacco, instant noodles and pot noodles, a selection of tinned foods, a load of random kinds of sweets, crisps and chocolates and also soft drinks, cordials and pet food! What a legendary shop, the service is always very friendly and I've never had a bad experience here apart from being begged at my smack addicts ho's crawled up from the buses of the bombed out church for their can of Skol Super! Lovely stuff, tamer than the rats though!