Best of Boston

Best Wine Shop

2013 Best Wine Shop, North

Wine Sense

Andover
Wine Sense is small, but that's a good thing, because you can feel confident that owner Samanta Ettore has vetted every single bottle on display. [...] read more»
2013 Best Wine Shop, West

The Urban Grape

Chestnut Hill
You can try on clothes before you buy—so why not taste bottles of wine beforehand, too? At the Urban Grape, an Enomatic tasting machine dispenses [...] read more»
2012 Best Wine Shop, North

The Vineyard

North Andover
You'll find hundreds of reds and whites at this small shop on Route 114, not to mention a great selection of rosé and dessert wines, [...] read more»
2012 Best Wine Shop, South

Bin Ends

Braintree
This emporium's selection depends solely on the weekly deals they score from their suppliers, so buy what you love now, because it may soon be [...] read more»
2012 Best Wine Shop, West

The Urban Grape

Chestnut Hill
If only wine bottles could talk. Instead, most languish on store shelves across the city, relying only on crumpled winemaker-written blurbs and outdated Robert Parker [...] read more»
2012 Best Wine Shop

Central Bottle and Provisions

Cambridge
We've had it with snotty wine sellers. You know what? Sometimes all we want is an oaky California chardonnay. Instead of judging our palates or [...] read more»
2011 Best Wine Shop, West

The Urban Grape

Chestnut Hill
We're done wandering around wine shops, waiting patiently for a clerk to comb his mental archives for something we'll enjoy. Urban Grape sells wine the [...] read more»
2011 Best Wine Shop

Ball Square Fine Wines

Somerville
There are glossier retailers of rioja and champagne. But Ball Square's supreme approachability has us bubbling over. Once a perfectly respectable neighborhood store, this shop [...] read more»
2010 Best Wine Shop

Central Bottle and Provisions

Cambridge
We like to think we know wine. But like 99 percent of the population, we really just like to drink it. Thank heaven for Liz [...] read more»
2008 Best Wine Shop

Bauer Wine & Spirits

Boston
Here in the Hub, oenophiles generally have two types of stores from which to choose. There's the overly curated boutique, where every bottle warrants its [...] read more»