VINO

Popped in here to browse (always like a look in a new independant beer and food shop) and was greeted by friendly staff who really know their beer!
This store sells wines (one wall of them), beers (a wall of them), some spirits and soft drinks (which I didn’t really browse that thoroughly), posh chocolates and snacks and also frozen ‘home made’ ready meals from a local catering company. They also have some beer on tap which you can take away.
We saw many beers we had not seen before, and the staff were able to advise us of their own recommendations as well as others we would be likely to enjoy based on our tastes. We saw that they had a table of unusual looking beers at the front of the shop, apparently they had an away day at Stewarts brewery in Edinburgh and each branch of the four Vino’s made their own beer!

Great little wine shop that we visit whenever we need some replenishment. They stock a really good selection of beers, lagers, ciders and wines which are, generally, competatively priced.

Not a bad shop, but I think it suffers from great competition in Edinburgh.
Offers some very good deals, unfortunately not on very good wine.
It’s really just a step up from grocery store wine retail, in that it has a selection of very inexpensive wines with a few middle to high range thrown in.
I didn’t find the staff very friendly or helpful either-​a major downside in a wineshop.
Haven’t tried the other locations, but I’m sure I’ll get around to them.

Way cooler looking than your average Haddows, Vino is the ultimate in wine based carry out shops, and I have been in here on many occasion when a nice bottle of wine needs to be bought for a birthday last minute.
A large selection of wines are available of course, as well as a good choice of beers and spirits. There really is something to suit every budget and the staff are onhand to assist with any questions you might have.
Essentially, it’s an off licence. But quite a nice one at that.

This is a great shop. Its really helped by the fact its independant so, as i understand it, they can stock whatever they want without being told by a wider company what they’ve to stock.
Although it’s called Vino it’s very much a wine /​ales /​lager /​cider /​whisky /​spirits shop and, from what i can see, everything is good quality and fairly priced. Im more into beers than wine but the one time i bought some wine i was given really useful and friendly advice and it turned out to be spot on. In terms of beers i’d have to say its surprisingly excellent. The range is fairly focused on Scottish beers which is great to see but they also have a good selection of UK and foreign beers, some fairly hard to get hold of so i’ve been impressed with that.
I’d like to continue to support them and hope other do too as its a local business and seems very customer focused rather than necessarily driven by the bottom line which is great to see nowadays and is a very welcome addition to the likes of Appelation Wines and Cornelius.

A decent enough off-​license, but blanket 5 star reviews is perhaps going a bit overboard. I can see how Gibson is grateful for getting weaned off the White Lightning, and how the mysterious Calum R is grateful for a store whichshares his enthusiasm for more leftfield brews, it isn’t all that mindblowing in my opinion.
It does have a good selection, especially when it comes to the foreign beers which are my main point of interest, and despite the slightly pretentious name it feels a bit less wanky than many of the other businesses on the increasingly nauseating Broughton Street. Deep down it is really just an offy though.

I’ve drank cider as my pre-​drink of choice for virtually the whole of my first two years at uni. Thus far it’s been Tesco’s own three litres for only £2.78, recently usurped by Scotmid’s own. After walking up Leith Walk during the day before a night out I decided to have a snoop around Vino to see if they could offer anything superior in quality but similar in price. I bought two bottle’s of the West Country’s finest which cost just short of £5, but were certainly worth it. The taste was far cleaner and it was nowhere near as gassy as the sort I (and my flatmates) have been indulging in for the last two years.
As well as outstanding and uniquely sourced beers and ciders, Vino also stocks vintage white and red wines and a whole range of quality spirits. Their malt whiskey selection in particularly impressive. It’s all pretty pricey, but the quality is indisputable and are friendly and seem knowledgable. Well worth a look, unless you don’t drink.