Conveniently positioned right across the road from my house, Vintage Cellars in Rushcutters Bay offers a fine choice of alcoholic libations! Its only competition in the direct vicinity comes from the bottle shop at Key Largo, so it wins that battle rather convincingly! Only problem being that it's located across the busy Bayswater Road, so I've almost been run down a few times crossing that, when I should really just walk to the traffic lights and wait a few seconds. Oh well.
They have the usual stock of beers, and some foreign imports, charged at appropriately imported prices, and they do have numerous ciders, which gets a tick in my book! Their wine selection is particularly good though, depsite it's relatively small size. They seem to cram plenty of bottles in! And don't be fooled by the cheapness of the clean skin wines, they're actually surprisingly good! Wow, I sound cheap! But that's the truth, they're not good in glass bottles, put it that way.
The staff are friendly and will usually help you out if you're having trouble deciding what you're in need of, and they sometimes hold in-store wine tastings. Yay, free wine! They even have a car park around the side, so if you're driving past, you don't have to try negotiating a parallel park while cars whizz by you at 70kmh! read more