Pete’s Wine Shop

I had been coming here for years. The staff was always very knowledge. Saturdays they have a fun tasting… so sad they are CLOSED.

Large selection of beer, wine, and even sake! It’s a cute «hole in the wall» tucked into a strip mall in downtown Bellevue. Would never have found it if we weren’t walking around randomly. The selection is great and the prices are good. Staff is friendly and relaxed but still attentive to make sure you’re finding what you need. All in all a good spot to keep in mind next time a party comes around!

I’ll never buy my bubbles anywhere else. With the help of their sommelier, Riley Davis, I was able to get all the bottles I was looking for at a great price. They were out of stock of a few of the rarer bottles I was after, but they had them to me within 48 hours. Great service, amazing selection and it happens to be mere blocks from my house. Super excited I was able to find Pete’s and I’ll be back time and time again.

Huge selection of beer, wine, + spirits; low prices; 10% off a case. Drop in two stars for less than friendly wine tasting w/​aggressive tasters who short of shoved their way to the table. I’ll admit, the wine at the time tasted fabulous, but even the staff failed at being friendly, and gave the tiniest pour I’d seen (less than 1 swallow). Thankfully the winery salesperson stepped in, and the tasting improved after that. Great place to go for good selection/​prices, but not to socialize/​taste. Gave me a hearty laugh anyway, + I enjoyed the wine!

Incredibly, there are only 20 reviews of Pete’s on Unilocal.Eleven five star, seven four star reviews and two, who were confused. LOL
So where to begin? Let’s say you like checking the discounted wine prices at QFC and you keep waiting for that certain wine, or vintage to go on sale. Why wait? Go to Pete’s.
First, their selection is outstanding! Long before you could find the Ethos label from Château St Michelle anywhere, Pete’s had it. They even have a section for them setup as you come in on the left. Nice! Same thing for some of the hard to find L’ Ecole 41 vintages and all the other Walla Walla wineries. They’re here. And, don’t get me started on their Oregon Pinot selection.
You don’t need to be a Wine Spectator aficionado to be treated with respect here. All of the staff are helpful and friendly, even to a novice.
It only makes me wish we still lived in Seattle, because although the wine selection down here in the Valley of the Sun is good, we miss the wines that somehow we took for granted while living in the northwest!
So, go to Pete’s… they’re great!

Stopped in for the Dusted Hill tasting and their 2 high end wines; Syrah & Cab were the best but we wanted to look around at others. Your help was most appreciated
THANK You for the recommendation on Tamarac Firehouse Red at $ 12.99, so delicious and wonderful for our Friday meal.
Stopped in at Costco last night and it was A BUCK MORE EXPENSIVE AT COSTCO, Safeway was $ 2.00 higher than Petes and there is NO help to recommend.
Can’t wait to taste the 2010 Tamarac Cab Franc $ 20.59 you recommended, I see it on Amazon for $ 5.00 higher price than Pete’s.
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I’ll be back!

I have to qualify this review by saying that we moved here from Phoenix, where big-​box wine and liquor stores are all over the place, making prices super competitive. The Seattle area –ahem — has much higher prices on average. Except for places like Pete’s Wine — they’ve got both a nice selection at very reasonable prices.
I walked into Pete’s here in Bellevue because I’d heard so much about it and was pleasantly surprised that it was a decent sized store. Their selection is really good and the aisles of wine are categorized by either what country the wine came from or the type of wine, like Chardonnay or Cabernet. Personally, I like shopping by type simply because there are some types of wine I like better than others. I found it hard to find a Tempranillo and scoured Spain to no avail. Slightly sad, I sauntered over to the Cabernet area and did find quite a bit I filled my cart with.
Hubby and I are real Red Wine afficionados so we asked for case prices on a couple of items and Pete’s staff was super helpful! They made a special order on one of the cases and I picked it up in just 3 days — Awesome!
This place also has a large beer selection from what I could see but I was too busy with my wine to check it out. That will be for our next trip there!

I don’t drink wine but damn they have an amazing beer selection, and their prices are much better than 99 bottles, malt and vine, bottle works, beer junction, super deli mart and whatever that shit store in georgetown is called.

Stopped by Pete’s Wine Shop this evening to pick up a few bottles of bubbles and I was not only impressed with the overall selection of wines, but especially the prices.
Some of the bubbles I picked out were such a steal compared to when you buy them from the grocery store! I was able to get out of there with five nice above average bottles of sparkling wine for barely over 50 dollars
I would be more than happy to give Pete’s Wine Shop five stars if it weren’t for one aspect of my visit. The staff didn’t seem friendly at all. No hello, how are you, can I help you find anything? Not personable at all. Even when we checked out, nothing.
Other than the poor service, I still enjoyed wandering through the shop and seeing what Pete’s has to offer. This is definitely a must stop for anyone who is a wine enthusiast or is interested in trying something new at a reasonable price.

I have been on the hunt for a Jovly Chenin Blanc that I had at a bar in Seattle for MONTHS and had been calling wine store after wine store trying to find it. Nowhere had it and a bunch of the stores took my information and said they would call me when they found it but a few months later, I was starting to lose hope as I never received any phone calls back.
I stopped in here on a whim and asked if they had the wine. At first, they couldn’t find it but they were determined to find it so they continued to search. After about 10 – 15 minutes, a triumphant store clerk came over to me excitedly and said that she had found it. WIN!
I was almost 99% sure that the wine was the right one but as I couldn’t see a picture of the label, I wasn’t certain. They suggested that I order one bottle and if it was the right one, I could call back and order more.
They told me that it would take up to 10 days for my wine to arrive and it arrived in WAY less time than that.
All in all, I was super impressed. Come here for all of your wine needs! They are awesome!

You will not find a better selection of wine. The other grocery items are great when you are in hurry and cannot travel to the closest grocery store in lower Queen Anne. Prices are high, but to be expected with this mom and pop shop. Love it!

Disappointing for sure! I called to confirm they had a specific wine I needed and when they confirmed they had it I said I would be driving straight down there. When I arrived a few minutes before they closed the employees were already walking out of the store (with a ton of wine in hand btw) stating they were closed and couldn’t help me. When I said you’re not closed for another 5 mintues they said, sorry we already closed our tills! Really? If you are open until 8 pm then you should stay open until 8 pm! Completely unprofessionally! Especially since I said I was making a special trip 35 miles away. I will never shop here – EVER!

Biggest selection of wines. The staff is very knowledable and helpful. And the prices are phenomenal. Make sure you check out the stacks near the registers, they change every month and they are always smoking deals.

Love the service at Pete’s. Even the online help is fantastic and they have everything I’m looking for at awesome prices!

This is the kind of place that you can ask for a recommendation and know you will take home a great bottle. Excellent selection and helpful staff. There’s also wine accessories. If you are looking for a $ 10 bottle or a $ 40 bottle you will get the same attention and level of service and that’s nice.

Coming from the bay area I was looking for a wine store like K&L. Pete’s exceeded my desires in every way. This is simply a phenominal wine store with a knowledgeable staff, great prices and even better specials. I even found a bottle of the Ridge Monte Bello which I have been searching around for.
I plan to come here a lot.

I’m bitter. Bitter at you all for not telling me about this place sooner. Even my parents were like «oh, Pete’s? Yeah, great store.»
THANKS.
I was so out of the loop that this store even existed that actually walking by it, finding it, seeing it made me think to myself «oh man, I found me a blackmarket». Because it’s a little hole-​in-​the-​wall shop.
This place has an amazing selection of wines at amazing prices. This place also has an amazing selection of beers at, again, amazing prices.
It appears they do wine tastings at some point, but I don’t really care about that — I’m after bottles, baby. And there’s a small handful of wines that I keep in my mind as my «hard to find» wines and I use them to measure how good a wine shop is. I mean, let’s face it — we can find Château Ste Michele anywhere out here. Boudreaux Cellars? Now THAT’S a way to impress me.
And guess what I found? Not one, not two, but THREE DIFFERENT BOTTLES from Boudreaux Cellars! The reds were well-​represented (so the riesling remains the difficult-​to-​find wine, ironic since they had so much at the winery when I visited… that’ll teach me to not buy a million bottles of a riesling I love) and the prices were amazing. Bought a bottle of the merlot for the parents.
Did I mention amazing? Good customer service — I witnessed one employee very patiently helping a guy who knew that the bottle of wine he was looking for was a red and that the print on the label was black, but that’s about it, and my heavens was she patient with him. Seriously, though, amazing — I’ll be doing all my Christmas shopping there next year. :)

Straight up — great selection and prices that would be hard to beat.
Make sure and go on Saturday from 3 to 6pm where wine reps come
in with their wines from around the world and the tasting is free. A great chance to taste wines you would not have done before.

This is the wine shop equivilant of Ikea for me.
While I know I don’t NEED anything at Pete’s, everytime I go I leave with at least one new bottle of red. At most a case or two.
Dale is my go-​to guy. He knows a lot about the wines they have in the shop and can tell you, honestly, if they can get the wine for which you’re looking.
I once called him because I had a delicious glass (or two) of a red at a Ballard eatery for $ 8 a pop. I wanted to get a few bottles to have at home for special occasions thinking it was going to run $ 30+ a bottle, imagine my suprise when I found out a whole bottle was only $ 7.99.

Great, amazing wine selection. Free tasting every Saturday from 3 – 6. Bring your own glass b/​c otherwise they’ll give you a plastic one. Them’s the rules!
1 point off for ambiance. I know it’s a wine shop, but could they at least change the posters out or something?