The Wine Press

Jordan & Isse the 2 Man Show tonight was very friendly & helpful.
I was in high need of a post road trip extended by 2 hours VINO, I found this libation location while I was waiting for my food.
Asked Jordan for the Santa Julia Malbec, he told me it didn’t ring a bell, but he would check the computerized inventory & let me me know for sure… no cigars.
His eagerness to assist had us at the Malbec section, offering me some other options.
Disclosure: I didn’t want to purchase a wine opener & have to deal with the all so friendly folks at TSA on my way home. Hence, he found me a bottle of Zolo that had a screw off top & I was good to go.
Well, had to get a bottle of Pink Moscato for the WomanBaby… gross, it smells & taste like cough syrup!
Although for a «college town» wine store that offers beer, snacks & fine liquor, it has a pretty nice selection of almost anything you can think of for your preferred choice of cocktail consumption.
Even their bag is pretty hip… brown paper style, who needs to purchase a gift bag.
Now that my visits to BU has been extended, I got a nice joint to cop my Vino preferences, making my travels even better.

This place has a fairly good selection of wine and beers, though a bit on the pricier side, though I guess I expect nothing more from Brookline :’(

I like this place. It’s the closest too me and a little expensive but it’s fine. They have a little bit of everything which is perfect, it’s all you need. I was a little annoyed on nye i had to work and called at 9 and was told they close in 72 minutes. So since I live about two minutes away i ran over to find the employee who i have seen working there before Leaving with his friends! It seemed like he closed after he hung up the phone with me. I understand it was nye but still, don’t lie to me. I got out of work early and decided I wanted a little champagne and was disappointed that I couldn’t.

I want to start off by saying the customer service is terrible. The tall white guy with the beard obviously has no working experience. Rude and unprofessional. Just because it’s New Year’s Eve and he was eager to leave, doesn’t give him to rights to tell all the customers to hurry up with their choices. Overall, he needs to get a real job and learn to deal with people in his surroundings.

The staff here, particularly the owner, are great. Fun, good recommendations — always good for a bottle or six of something on the way home from work or on the way out.

You can go ahead and ignore the bad reviews that are a few years old. I’ve been going here for several years… much better place then it used to be. Respectable craft beer selection and pretty reasonable prices for the area.

Love this local wine store in our neighborhood. Great selection, reasonable prices, friendly and helpful staff (I think on one particular occasion I was dealing with the owner Aaron). Also love how they are teaming w the new Whole Foods next door to offer wine and cheese pairings.

I have been coming here for about two years now and basically I love this place. The people working are awesome. Chill people, down to help you find what ever you need to make what ever you want. The selection is awesome. Pretty much anything you are looking for, you can find at the WP.

The Wine Press is really a tale of two stores. The previous management bought wine from close out sales; the wine was often «corked,» sour and had seen better days and years. My thought is that the management looked at the demographics, that is, college students on budgets, and sold poor wine accordingly, looking at the store only as a moneymaker, with total disregard and no respect for the art of wine making nor the customers.
But ahhhhhh! New life has been breathed into this wine shop by the new owner, Aaron, his father and mother. Aaron is studying to be a sommelier, knows his wines, and appreciates his new and growing clientele.
He and his family have transformed this former cheap, closeout wine joint, to a fine wine and liquour store complete with fine cigars, brandies and champagne.
The customer service is superlative, the wine array is broad and growing daily.
Aaron is implementing educational tastings, complete with a brand new tasting table. Ask him for recommendations; he really listens to you and what kind of wine experience you’d like and comes up with the perfect wine.
I am a difficult customer; I’ve lived in Paris and San Francisco and think I know quite a bit about wine; I do not know as much as I think I do, despite years of, um, «tasting!‘
What I do know is fine customer service and focus which The Wine Press gives without reserve, the new assortment of local craft beers is phenomenal, the store is no longer selling «off-​brands» of dusty bottles better suited for putting on a salad as vinegar or clearing a clogged drain.
The owners are gracious, respect wine, and respect their customers. The prices are more than fair and the atmosphere is gracious.
My dog Gigi as well recommends WP; she gets a cookie each time we visit.
If you’ve only experienced this store under previous kegger mentality management, you must return.
The Wine Press, under new ownership, has grown, like a fine red wine, into a full and hearty and warm experience.

It’s not great. It’s not awful. It just is.

I went in to the Wine Press on a recommendation from a friend. As a collector of smaller label wines I am always looking for a place to source them. Sadly in this day and age of super brand name conscious consumers this has become more and more difficult.
When I walked in I was greeted by bin after bin of great values, small labels, and a knowledgeable sales staff. The prices were all excellent; even on the better known brands which they carry as well. They also have a very good selection of Scotch, Whiskey, and Bourbon.
Overall I highly recommend this store. In an age of ever larger and larger liquor stores that value quantity over quality to the point where the staff have very little knowledge of individual products; the WIne Press stands out as the exception.
I will be back!

The Wine Press has undergone a great transformation now that it’s under new management. The new owner is knowledgeable about the wine they carry, and can be found walking around the store, eager to make recommendations. The staff is super friendly and helpful, and the store is really well organized.

I was very impressed with the Wine Press. They are under new management which is why all the recent positive changes. The owner is always there with a smile and ready to help me with my selections. I always find what I am looking for there and the prices are lower than they were before! This place looks great and the service is excellent.

I was very impressed with the Wine Press under its seemingly new management. When I went in, the kid behind the counter greeted me with a smile and then I noticed a guy walking around the store asking people if they need help selecting anything. Come to find out this was the new owner!
What an incredible experience. He helped me pick out two red wines and two different bottles of Scotch. Oh yeah, the pricing has also improved over the owner of the past. What a selection too. .. there is a Scotch for which I have been searching for over 5 years, literally. .. THE WINE PRESS HAS IT!!!
In a nutshell:
— Great Service
— Great Selection
— Great Prices
Who could ask for more? They will have all my business going forward. Check them out under the new régime, you won’t be upset.

The real deal in this store is the fast moving senior citizen who appears to have become a fixture in this establishment, either by ownership or by the kind and generous hearts of the young hipster staff. You really have to come up with some kind of maneuvering strategy when entering this store.
#1 DO NOT BE DETECTED BY SENIOR STAFFER
#2 IF YOU HAVE FAILED #1, READ BELOW
#1 Appendix A: Congratulations, you now have 2.8 seconds to pivot a 180 out the store. Still thirsty? Well you best have quick reflexes since senior staffer has now managed to thrust a handle of Jim Bean’s into your face with the words «here! you wanted this? no?! what did you want? I’ll find it for you!»
One day I was able to out-​sprint senior staffer and grabbed a bottle of Sailor Jerry’s. He retaliated by grabbing a different bottle, «You want rum? Here I’ll give you a good rum, bacardi’s!» I basically put my foot down and explained in a very stern manner that I knew what I wanted and did not want to be hassled. He simply gazed at me as if I told him The Lawrence Welk show had just been canceled.
I’ll always be baffled by the mystery of the senior staffer.

I was shocked that this place has such a low rating. From someone in the neighborhood and who has lived in several nearby neighborhoods– when it comes to buying good wine and good beer (none of the dirty water stuff) this place has some of the most reasonable prices around. But what wins me over, is the huge selection, and all of the little notes throughout the store that help you make a selection. They have grades for wines with details on the flavors and styles, and have Beer Advocate grades for all of their craft brews– a huge help when wanting to try something new. And then to top it all off, the staff is super friendly and has great sales.
Yes, the hard liquor is a little pricey– but I’ll go for fair prices of wine and beer any day. 9 times out of 10 I walk out of there with a great wine or beer that I would never have known to purchase– leave the guessing to the amateurs.

They always have my Newcastle, nice and cold, and they have a smaller but good selection of other beers and liquords as well. But mostly, the wines! Great selection and there are some great deals which you can find in their monthly newsletter — I drank a really good $ 100 wine last week that I picked up there for $ 20 — and it was very, very good. Plus, fine, I’ll say it, they have the Bota Box. Mock me, fine, but Bota Box reds are amazing — O, spigot of unending wine! While the red was a little hard to find over the autumn, I have managed to pick it up a couple times lately. Also, I like the staff. So yeah, I like this place.
And the dogs that are occasionally inside are cute. Really cute.

Wow this is the type of place you walk into and the entire time you have a feeling that you are being had. And you are probably right.
Number 1 thing I look for in a liquor store is price followed closely by selection. They have such high prices that it overrides their above average selection.
There is a large selection of wine and beer which is where the pros end. The people who work there aren’t particularly friendly, but once a guy told me I could bring my dog in the shop next time instead of tying him outside… guess that was nice. But what really gets me is the prices. They are ridiculous. You get all psyched that you picked out a good case of 12 beers. You walk up to the register and it is $ 20 at least. You probably are saying, well Alex, why didn’t you just see the price before you walked up to the register. Great question. The answer is that they DON’T PUT PRICES ON WHAT THEY SELL. So it is not only really expensive but a big surprise when you get to the registrar that it is really expensive.
Oh, and just so the people who work there aren’t forced to explain why it is so expensive, they put up a sign next to the registrar blaming huge MA taxes for the prices. While this is true, they are still the most expensive place around.

I’m not drinkin’ but my fiancé is. We went here tonight and it smelled like my youth. My Dad used to take me to a packie (that’s liquor store to you little transplants) and well, he’d buy me a pretzel rod for five cents. Somedays, I’d hit the jackpot and I’d get a quarter to get FIVE pretzels.
Ah, the memories. Well, this place smells just like that old packie in Waltham.
Only this is on Beacon Street in very hoity-​toity Brookline. The prices here are very very nice. The selection here is even nicer.
If you have any interest in beer, wine, and spirits then you need to check the Wine Press out.

OMG! These reviews HAVE to be a joke. Or spelp. This is so not right. This is the first time I have actually read reviews and thought I was reading entries for a completely different store.
This is one of the best wine stores I have been to. They ALWAYS have sales and many times they have %50 off. I love when I can buy a $ 30 bottle of wine for $ 15 clams.
I come here at least 2x a week and am a happy camper. The employees here are so sweet. I will say the manager probably DOES have an attitude when little BU brats come in here and buy their liquor while gabbing not stop on the phone and not even acknowledging her presence. Get where I am going with this?