La Mesa Wine & Spirits

We stopped in this location today while attending the La Mesa Village Oktoberfest. My husband was searching for a beer he enjoyed the day before at «Tsuruya Sushi» restaurant, to our surprise they carried the beer but was out of it. The store was clean and busy today. The staff was friendly and seemed happy for the customer flow from the Oktoberfest. They carry a nice selection of beers, wines and spirits along with various snack foods and lottery tickets.

when you finally realize Bevmo costs more than they pretend to, go here!
Huge enormous array of everything ever fermented and at decent prices.
These guys actually know their product and answered some of my most annoying beer geek questions without hesitation. I am sitting here wondering whether Unilocal has software to detect potential money opportunities in unsavory ads or if some poor guy in a cellar in Lebanon
reads every review looking for negative remarks? Interesting. I would like to know more about the man behind this curtain! Not that I have anything less that joyful to report on these purveyors of fine spirits.

So lucky to have La Mesa Wine and Spirits in our neighborhood!
Great quality, selection, and ambiance!
My husband and I particularly appreciate the owner, Marvin. He gets interested in what the people in his community want and then exceeds expectation by delivering it. We sometimes go out of our way just because we enjoy giving our business to La Mesa Wine & Spirits :)

One of the best beer and liquor selections anywhere — AND Marvin knows about the product he sells.
If he doesn’t have it, he can get it for you and the price is right.

I have lived in La Mesa for a number of years now, and have never given La Mesa Wine and Spirits the time of day. Not that I think it is bad, just never had any real interest in it. I still would not have, but my BF tried to convince me we were going because they had wine, when I knew full well it had a bunch of beer.
So off we went to look at ‘wine’ for me…
Low and behold what do I see? A huge selection of beer, in the fridge – out on the floor. I am sure my BF was weeping inside at the sight of it. He ended up getting some fancy beer that came in a box, that they had only one left of. When the guy let him know this you could see his heart skip a beat.
The gentleman that was there was fun, chatty and had a joke or two. He seemed pretty knowledgeable, and willing to help which was nice.
Oh and yeah I got a bottle of wine. They seem to have more higher end ones here, so it isn’t a place I could keep coming to on the regular.
but we know this wasn’t about the wine anyway…

I love this place! Always a great selection — and of hard-​to-​find beers! Awesome owner! Ask them for some suggestions, or what’s hot right now. Competitive prices and sometimes even cheaper than other business. :) best of all, a local business and I’m happy to support :)

Marvin is the best in the business! Super knowledgeable and fairly priced. An incredible stock of beer and spirits. My highest recommendation!

great selection of bar/​win/​ciders. Marvin is great and super nice

Marvin is a SUPER nice guy (*and his little dog too!*). He offered me a pinot grigio (Blue Fish) chilled. Very pleasant. Turns out that this wine comes highly recommended among wine connoisseurs, AND he provides this wine at one of the LOWEST PRICES ANYWHERE on the Internet. (I did the online research myself and can personally verify this.) I look forward to visiting Marvin (and his little dog too) in his lovely, friendly shop in La Mesa Village soon! You should too!

This place had a good selection of craft beers anywhere from Stone specialty releases to Bruery, Avery, Lost Abbey stuff. Look around as there may be some limited or vintage stuff hidden!
They’ve got some pretty good bourbons sitting around. However the LIMITED ones can def. be WAY OVERPRICED. But that’s secondary market value and some people would be willing to pay it, not me.
Lots of wines here but I’m not a big fan so I don’t really know what they have. Parking is kinda tough here, bring some change to pay for the meters.
Pretty good liquor shop but be willing to spend more than a pretty penny coming in.

I don’t know of any other liquor stores in the near vicinity but this is probably the best one. Great craft beer selection. Stuff from Stone, The Bruery, Lightning, Victory, Mother Earth, Belching Beaver, Alesmith, Goose Island, Karl Strauss, The Lost Abbey, Caldera Brewing’s Mogli, Widmer Bros., just to name a few. I was also informed that they are even planning on expanding. With the exception of maybe one or 2 beers being a dollar more than I could find elsewhere, the pricing appears to match the cheapest pricing I could find for most of my go to beers.
They also sell wine and other liquors but I’m a craft beer guy so I really didn’t pay much mind to the wines and liquors. I did see some standard stuff like Sailor Jerry, Fireball etc. just while looking at the beers.
The staff was super friendly and won’t hesitate to assist you if you need it and they take pride in their work and passion for their business.
If you are anywhere close and like alcohol, especially craft beers, this place should be at the top of your list. Like I said, I’m not aware of any other liquor stores nearby but I really don’t see them being any better. I got a lot more than I expected when I walked into this place.
This place is definitely good to go.

Stumbled upon here during Oktoberfest. There’s a decent craft beer selection and right in the heart of downtown la mesa. I didn’t browse through the liquor section, but I did glance a few nice bottles. Prices were fair.