This is my local liquor store and I go here when I don't feel like traveling further to get wine…read more I'm a wine snob, I'll admit that right off the bat and their selection of good wine is fairly limited but I can usually find something I like. They do carry one of my favorite Rose' wines. They do quite a bit of cheap wine and since it's a small store it can feel overcrowded. The staff is exceptional. They're friendly and they actually appear to like their jobs which can be a rarity.

Excellent service. I was looking for "Brotherhood" wine in…read morethe area, not an easy fine. This place had exactly what I was looking for. So happy I found this shop. The woman behind the counter was very knowledgeable and helpful. Great prices. Keep up the great work.

Lovely little wine and spirits store. The owner was wonderful as with the selection. The atmosphere…read moreis warm and welcoming too. Check it out!

Really cute very tiny wine and booze shop tucked into a very non-descript old strip mall near the…read moreNY-MA border, the rather tiny selection and short hours might normally simply pass my notice as far as Yelping, but the super-friendly and helpful proprietor propels this up to "if you need some, you might as well stop" status. On the one hand there wasn't a huge selection, and there was one and only one featured wine; but that wine was a great Rioja, and if you're only looking for one good bottle of wine and you find one good bottle of wine, isn't that a successful trip?

The store changed hands some time ago. The new owners don't seem to be present. The staff member…read morethey have there doesn't know anything about anything. The prices are higher on the same items they haven't sold through from the previous owners. Just after the store changed hands, I ordered some bottles online. When I got to the store, the price was higher. They honored it and then took the item down from the website. It's now just a generic liquor store that sells some decent things at an elevated price. Don't expect any help close to what you'd get from the former crew.

This place has gone downhill since Jamie sold it recently. Wines that should never be out of stock…read moreare frequently out. Getting very cluttered in the isles.

A very pleasant find. A small store in a strip mall in Newtonville, conveniently down the road…read morefrom the Fresh Market. During my short visit I was approached by three sales people, two very friendly, welcoming, and anxious to answer any questions. I was primarily interested in French and Northwestern wines. Not a huge selection but some very interesting and fine selections, several of which I haven't seen elsewhere in the Capital Region. I walked out with seven bottles. While I didn't expect this, I received a half case discount. Not inexpensive, but seemed quite fair for the area. I am looking forward to a return visit.

I have never been so disgusted and disappointed in a business..I used to be a rewards member with…read morethis store and now I refused to come back ..I came in the store to purchase some champagne I pick up a bottle that probably value $80 and decided to go with something cheaper so I put it back down but apparently I didn't not put it in the right placing .I purchased my item and left ..several hours later I receive a voicemail from the cashier stating " you were looking at some champagne and now we can't find it we need you to bring it back now " .They were insinuating that I had stole the bottle without even doing a clean sweep of the place and was being demanded that I bring back a stolen item I never took ..when I called them I politely but sternly told them that I did not steal the bottle and they needed to look before assuming I took something, I mean at least look at the camera before calling someone and labeling them a theft . After that I wrote the owners an email and I never heard from them .Not an apology was issue not even a reply .I can't help but to think This was somewhat racially profiled but I can't make that judgement only god can I just know I will never set foot in that establishment again .

Best Liqour store in the area! Great prices and awesome service! Also there's wine tastings on…read moreFriday nights!!!

These guys are the best! So friendly and nice. I wouldn't consider going anywhere else for…read morewine/vodka. Plus they have a wide variety. Highly recommend.

Great selection of wines and spirits. Eric the owner is very knowledgeable about wine. The prices…read moreare very reasonable! I highly recommend!

Favorite little neighborhood wine store. Can't believe their rating isn't a solid 5-stars across…read morethe board. Staff is knowledgeable, friendly, FUNNY and they remember you/your selections/your preferred wines. Nice little rewards program too, so every now and then you get $5 bucks off. They also now deliver which makes it almost too convenient :) and their tastings are fun. Great small business to support.

I don't really consider myself a "wine guy" (in the sense that I really enjoy wine, but I'm by no…read moremeans an expert or even amateur oenophile - my idea of "laying down" a bottle is saving it for next week) but after visiting a few wine stores in New York, having lived in California for a decade in a county with a dozen vineyards in close driving distance, Trader Joe's, and very wine-oriented restaurants, I am starting to think I may have to reassess that, relatively. Consider that a disclaimer that I suspect your mileage may vary with this particular store. This store has a small collection that gravitates to the $15 bottle of wine, if I may, which could be nice in and of itself. That's the right range for a quick bottle to go with dinner, but this being New York, you can't get wine in the grocery stores, so you have to remember to make a special trip. Unless you're shopping at the Co-op next door, I don't think this has quite enough of a selection or incredible bargains to make it a "destination" wine store. The California stock is heavy on the usual suspects from Napa and Sonoma counties; they had very few from the less well-known but significantly better Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara counties, and the staffer who was helping me didn't seem very aware about those vineyards. There were not a lot of South American or Aussie choices, which IMHO have produced some of the tastiest "bargain" wines in the $10-$20 range in recent years. The French selections are heavy on heritage vineyards, and in terms of value or specialness, I wasn't really sent by what was there. The Italians I thought were a poor lot. The grape selection is also very conservative - heavy on the merlots and chiantis and chardonnays, fewer choices in the cab francs and montepulcianos and pinot gris, if I can use that as a short hand for where I'm coming from in terms of taste. They had some decent syrahs, but nothing in what I'd call "full throat" labels. I obviously haven't tried every bottle in the joint, so take it fwiw this is just based on the selections I've had before. I will say of the half dozen bottles I took home, letting the staffer make suggestions, we haven't really had more than one bottle that seemed like it was a good wine at the price point. I give the store plenty of karmic credit, though, for having staff eager to help and coming out from behind the counter to try to answer my questions, and for that reason I'll come back a few more times while I comparison shop the weird world of New York wine sales and see if I can get into the "top shelves" here, as it were. I didn't look at the liquor in too much detail, as we don't drink a lot, but it seemed like a fairly thin selection. We have a couple of weirdo liquers (the two kinds of chartreuse) we drink on special occasions, that they didnt have, and the single malt scots whiskey selection was unremarkable. It's a local store, I appreciated their efforts, so as I said it's worth giving an extra shot to. Wine shopping is unusually an individual thing so the three-star rating is purely personal.

In town for the holiday weekend and the wine cellar was across the street---very good selection of…read morewines at many different price points. Actually had a cab we have only come across while on vacation in the Outer banks, NC....Mavens and Misfits....bought a few bottles!

While surfing the internet for some lesser-known (not to be confused with low quality) bottles of…read morejunmai daiginjo sake for a special occasion, I found a couple that sounded like winners. Price-checking several well-known websites and digging a little deeper, I landed at We Speak Wine. Their website was easy to navigate through. Although they are mostly a wine cellar, I was able to find the two sakes that I wanted. I really liked that I don't recognize a single brand of sake that they carried (except for Otokoyama). I'm no sake connoisseur but I was interested in both their high-end stuff as well as the affordable stuff. Highest priced sake was $180 and cheapest was $15. No Sho Chiku Bai or Hakkaisan (Thank Buddha). As for wines, the huge variety and selection are mind-boggling. If you know what you want, or if you want to play "bottle roulette," this is the place. Shipping was $15.54 for 2 bottles but they delivered right on time as promised and their packing was great. No packing peanuts, no soggy box, no chards of glass to attack my unsuspecting hand. They took out the bottles from the boxes, neatly folded the boxes, wrapped the bottles in tissue paper then put them in bottle cartons. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/QjNzU0Ys6698OKHzLVDeNw?select=BM9L_UG5w76Z4-BDKbFmFA Prices for my bottles of sake were about $10-20 cheaper than other websites. At first I gave this place 5 stars but I'm a little bewildered that the same bottle that I ordered online 2 weeks ago is now $22 more and the other bottle is now $16 more. I guess I got a good deal at the right time. Even at these higher prices, they'll still make you feel better by listing a higher price and using font-edit strikethrough. Nonetheless, I appreciate the accompanying refrigerator magnet, the business card with a human name on it, and a human hand-written "Thank you!" on my order summary that was folded neatly into a logo envelope. I also appreciate that this is a small or relatively new business (my order number is only 3 digits big) in Troy, near Albany in upstate New York. By the way, the address is the same as a local liquor store, Hoosick Street Wine Cellar Discount, so look for that if you're in the area. I found it funny that I live in a state that is closer to Japan and produces fine wines and yet I ordered sake from a wine cellar on the opposite side of the country, especially when K&L Wine Merchant is not that far away. Anyway, there is a bunch of interesting bottles that I am eyeing at We Speak Wine and when the occasion calls for it, I will order from them again.