The best way to ensure you get a good bottle of wine is to buy it at the right place. A quality store will screen out the swill, take care of their products and make sure you get the right bottle for your taste. This distinctive group of wine shops best exemplifies excellence in selection and service.
Appellation
460 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011
212-741-9474
Great small store with a focus on a small selection of biodynamic, organic wines and artisan spirits.
Astor Wines & Spirits
399 Lafayette Street at East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-674-7500
The biggest and best wine store in the city. Recently moved to a new location, expanded and updated, this is the ultimate wine buying experience.
Best Cellars
1291 Lexington Avenue
(at 87th Street)
New York, NY 10128
212-426-4200
100 wines for $15 or less arranged by style of wine (i.e. soft, luscious, juicy, smooth).
Burgundy Wine Company
143 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-691-9092
Only wines from Burgundy, Rhone and Oregon. This means they are specialists and have the service and quality to back it up. On the pricier side, but you can find great deals in Cru Beaujolais.
Chambers Street Wines
160 Chambers Street
New York, NY 10007
212-227-1434
The Loire and Burgundy experts – ask the really helpful staff for a suggestion or choose blindly because it’s mostly all good here.
Chelsea Wine Vault Chelsea Market
75 9th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
212-462-4244
Good all around selection with noted organic and biodynamic wines. Any reason to go to the Chelsea Market is worth it!
Crush Wine and Spirits
153 E 57th St
New York, NY 10022
212-980-WINE
Eclectic selections from small and esoteric regions and producers. Especially strong on Riesling. This is without a doubt one of the city’s top stores.
De-Vino Wines
30 Clinton Street
New York, NY 10002
212-228-0073
Superb Italian selection, with several French additions. Many fine and rare bottles. Some mid-priced, but on the pricier side overall.
Discovery Wines
10 Avenue A
New York, NY 10009
(212) 674-7833
Alphabet City wine store with advanced computer system where you can scan the bottles for producer and wine information and food pairing.###
Harlem Vintage
2235 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
Harlem, NY 10027
212-866-Wine
Boutique wine store in Harlem has a section for black winemakers, and very good wines throughout.
Italian Wine Merchants (IWM)
108 East 16th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-473-2323
The best Italian wine store, maybe ever. Ask the super knowledgeable staff about a selection. Also, my first job in wine was here.
Le Du’s Wines
600 Washington Street
New York, NY 10014
212-924-6999
Hand-chosen artisan wines by the former wine director of Daniel restaurant, Jean-Luc Le Du. The entire store is kept at 55 degrees, cellar temperature. Worth the trip!
Nancy’s Wines for Food
313 Columbus Ave.
New York, NY 10023
212-877-4040
This is the place to buy Riesling!
NY Wine Co.
21 Warren Street
New York, NY 10007
212-812-3999
Italian Wine Merchants alums open this sleek, modern-minimalist boutique in the City Hall area of Tribeca. A hand chosen selection of small-production wines and impeccable service make for a refined but affable buying experience.
Red, White and Bubbly
211 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-636-WINE
Great boutique wine store.
Sea Grape Wine Shop
512 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
212-463-7688
Come in and joke around with the helpful, hilarious staff. Then happily carry your reasonably priced bottle of wine back home.
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Vestry Wines
65 Vestry Street
New York, NY 10013
212-810-2899
Located in the Northern Tribeca Historic District this gorgeous modern wine boutique is run by the always-friendly and informed general manger James Kuhner. With a focus on California, Italy and France and hard-to-find or otherwise non-distributed wines this shop is a bit out of the way but worth the trip. They also have some fancy website technology.
Vino
121 East 27th St.
New York, NY 10016
212-725-6516
Superb selection of Italian wines, choice grappe and digestivo. They also offer classes on Italian wines at their Vinoteca in a brownstone a few doors down.
Vintage New York
482 Broome St.
New York, NY 10013
212-226-9463
or
2492 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
212-721-9999
Open seven days a week. All NY state wines, run by Rivendell winery. You can try anything in the store before you buy it at the bar. Frequent classes and tastings.
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