Big Tree Bottles

No snark. They deliver and give good suggestions!!!

I absolutely love shopping for wine at this little shop. The staff are knowledgeable and friendly, the selection is great considering the size of the shop, and the descriptions and pairing suggestions for each of their wines are greatly helpful when shopping. Prices are mid-​range, which is perfect for me most of the time. It’s convenient if you also need to pick up liquor, but if you are going just for liquor, I’d recommend going elsewhere. I come here pretty much exclusively for the wine. You can get a really excellent wine to go with dinner or drink stand-​alone for under $ 20.

Great selection — and more importantly. Delivery. No minimum, but if you order less than 3 bottles you are charged a $ 3 fee. Small price to pay IMO.

Walked in asked a few questions the girl in the front made an attempt to answer but the woman claiming to be co-​owner said they were busy but no one was in the store at the time. They were very rude and the only conclusion is that I had was that I was not the right color and they did not think I would buy. This place is a disgrace to such a nice neighborhood.

While I love the employees at BTB to death, the fact that there is no dust on the bottles is worrisome at best. Seriously.
I expect my wine to be aged. Within that, indicators of this true aging process is dust on the bottles. No dust leads one to believe these bottles may have in fact had phony labels printing and adhered to them. Have you ever seen a wine cellar?
It’s a shame.
The closest wine store one full stop away. Going there instead of Big Tree is about as much excitement as a snail riding on a turtles back.

This is probably the friendliest liquor store I have ever been in. My vegatarian friend lives across the street and is a self proclaimed wino, so I would grab bottles before heading over to her place for veggie cooking lessons. I’m a vodka girl and CLUELESS as far as wine goes (I usually just buy whatever label looks interesting), but the people working here would help me patiently every single time. They’re never judgemental if you feel like grabbing something cheap and they’re just… nice… all the time. It’s really refreshing.
I’m definitely excited that they’ve expanded their hard liquor selection! High five!

–great $ 10 bottle section
–always friendly and great suggestions
–great selection for a small place
–closes at 12, so i can always get something if i forget!
really psyched i dont have to walk to the sketchy ones that are far away like years ago in this neighborhood.

I love this wine shop. The staff are consistently warm, friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. The selection is small, but well curated. The prices are reasonable, the hours are good, and they deliver. What is not to like?

The clerk was sweet and she gave me some really good recommendations. I happen to like chilled red wine. I know I’m probably white trash. The clerk had two or three recommendations and they were all great picks. Tons of affordable bottles. I did buy a small bottle of a Brooklyn made whiskey which was underwhelming, but that’s not attributable to the store.

Love this little hipster wine shop! They have a huge selection of hip brands. I really wanted to try their Young Punks wine but I didn’t want to carry it all the way home on the train. I will wait till my boyfriend wants to go with me.
They are really friendly and helpful too.

Absolutely Amazing!!!
I called to place a phone order for delivery to a Brooklyn address from Jersey City! Not only was Jesse incredibly helpful with Champagne suggestions, he made sure that my Thank You Gift was received in a presentable and professional way. My friend was really touched by the gesture and seriously, I have Jesse and the delivery driver to thank for it!
Knowledgeable, Patient (with someone who knows very little about wine!), Friendly, Personable and Quick Delivery!!!
The next time I’m in the area (or need to place an order from across the Hudson!) Jesse and Big Tree is my ONLY Choice! U Guys rock! Thank You!!!
— Enrico Gomez

2.5 stars.
I’m trying really hard to like this place, but I just can’t. A good start, but this place has a lot to learn. So far it’s amateurish.
The selection: Mediocre. 2 of the 10 wines purchased so far have been decent, the rest tasted poor. It’s fairly limited and the categorization is confusing. As well it’s overpriced.
Either their buyer has some peculiar taste buds or they aren’t really tasting all the wine before buying.
The description cards carry on about food pairings instead of other important details. Each wine has 3 descriptive words, (i.e. the majority of red using «leathery.» Hmm…)
May I suggest the workers here take note from the exceptional September Wines in LES?
I like knowing a wine’s year, varietal, region, how it’s produced (organic, biodynamic, etc.) along with a brief unique description for each, not three tawdry descriptive words that don’t give me a story.

Am I in love? I am.
They are helpful (not pushy), reasonably priced (but quality), and the selection is… seductive. I asked, half-​joking, if any of the wine was local/​organic, and she said «yes, most of it.» It’s a straightforward wine store where you don’t have to go in with an encyclopedic knowledge of subsoil nitration and skin thickness to walk out with a great bottle of wine and a feeling of calm accomplishment washing over you. Unpretentious; yummy.
Oh.
Um.
They deliver. Really. To Bk and Manhattan.
I DARE you not to get on board.

It was a dark and stormy night, and I was booking it off the train to get to a birthday party on time, and the absolutely lovely man behind the counter not only recommended a great wine, but offered to gift wrap it AND the other bottles I’d toted from Manhattan.
If I lived there, Big Tree Bottles would be my go to, but for now, I’ll have to hit them up every time I am on Bogart Street,

They have a «$ 10 & under» wine section. One of the female workers helped me decide which red wine I should get for a friend. I asked what would go well with steak and she suggested a few of her favorites, and gave me a description on each one. She was very kind and helpful!
Small shop, but it gets the job done.

(2.5 stars)
Big Tree Bottles (BTB) is like the Duane Reade of wine stores in Bushwick: only a place that I would go to out of necessity and convenience.
Before stopping at Roberta’s, I decided to poke my head inside to check out the local wine store off Morgan Avenue. I didn’t expect the selection of an Astor Wine & Spirits, but one thing did surprise me: how expensive the wines were.
A quick price comparison with the Sherry-​Lehmann (SH) catalogue /​website revealed the following facts:
2008 Grgich Hill Fume Blanc BTB: $ 24.99 /​SH: $ 22.95
2007 Ex Libris Cabernet Sauvignon BTB: $ 20.00 /​SH: $ 16.95
I will concede that Big Tree will have higher prices that larger stores to cover overhead, but it’s probably better just to take the L to Union Square Wine and Spirits and take advantage of the lower prices and greater selection.

Oh, I could really sing the praises of BTB. Truly a gem of a place!
The choices are great, the service is never snobby (and is super pleasant!) and the prices are fair.
Oh and THEY DELIVER. Holy cow, thanks for my alcoholism.

Wine!
Liquor!
Deliver?!
My poor liver
From your weekend tastings and friendly staff.

First off, I have to add to the choruses of those who are praising how classy and nice the place is, and how friendly the owners are. They couldn’t be nicer. And of course it is fantastic to have a place to buy wine in this neighborhood, and without cloudy, bullet-​proof glass, even.
The only thing I would like to see is more reasonable pricing. When I was looking forward to this place opening, I was worried I’d be drinking a bottle a night because of the convenience, but I almost never go in here unless I’m buying wine for a party or something. I would say that the average bottle of wine here is around $ 15 to $ 16. As I am relatively young and relatively cheap, that is what I would call «a nice bottle of wine for a special occasion.» I understand that they are a smaller shop and do less business than that spot on Bedford, but maybe that has a little to do with the fact that the spot on Bedford has dozens of wines that are totally delicious but also $ 10 or less.
Fine, I’m cheap. But so are a lot of the people who live in the apartments around here, not to mention those dorms on Cook Street and McKibben. Why not cater to the clientele by stocking wines that are more affordable? I’m only offering this advice because I want the owners to succeed, and every time I pass by (which I do often, because I live around the corner), it’s completely empty, except for maybe one or two people around rush hour.
I’ll keep buying from here as often as I can, but I do think a larger stock of $ 10 wines is in order. Good luck to the owners, who as I said are delightful people.

A lot of wine and all the must have liquors.
Awesome.
Awesome People.
Awesome Selection.
Awesome Prices.