Ralph’s Wines & Spirits

Amazing wine shop with even more amazing owners in Hingham. They really care about you finding exactly what you need to make your night enjoyable. They even sell this wine that restores 100 oysters per bottle right here to our endangered oyster reefs in Massachusetts!

Awesome wine tasting event! Thank you to Ralph for the great recommendations. Looking forward to some great summer beer and wine. The group of us picked up some wonderful selections including cucumber infused vodka and dome Russian vodka.

Usually, I’m a bit too lazy to write reviews, but I was compelled by a few reviews that commented on high prices and snooty owners. My experiences have been quite the opposite. First, I’m more a beer guy than wine, and the selection of great beers is exceptional. Prices are competitive with other stores (if you can find the beer you want elsewhere). The owner ALWAYS greets me when I’m in the store, and the whole staff knows their stuff and are very helpful.
The best thing about the place is the Friday beer tasting. It’s right after work — and a great way to try some unique suds and expanding familiarity with small brewers.

I love Ralph’s! Everyone has been super helpful and makes sure you leave with a bottle to your liking.
I am more of a beer guy so I can say they have a great beer selection, including a ton of fun bombers that are worth a try.
They also have a Corks and Forks series where you get some hand crafted food and carefully selected wines.
Heck, they even have a Scotch night which I cannot wait for!

Smug proprietor, who provides little info regarding wines on offer. I’ve been in here a couple of times, and while it’s a nice space, the selection is no better than many liquor stores with an extended wine area. Bottles of wine are overpriced here (my favorite wine is $ 2 cheaper at a nearby shop). I get the impression that most wines here are being marked up. Won’t be returning.

I was part of the sweet couple that travelled from Amherst for Ralph’s «Grand Tasting». My wife and I were NOT disappointed. What is a few hours in the car when at the other end you get handed glasses of Crystal (seriously) and other fine wines. But for me, the stars of the show were the bourbons. I’d never had either the Pappy 15 or the George T. Stagg, and I got to sample both for FREE! These bourbons are almost impossible to find and Ralph decided to use his personal bottles to share the experience with his entire community. THAT is how you run a successful business. Besides a beer and wine selection that could compete anywhere in the county, Ben at the store has already gone out of his way to help me track down select bottles that I couldn’t manage to find anywhere else in the state.
I’m sure it won’t be too long before I find myself in Hingham once again.

Ralph and Kim are excellent hosts.
The Saturday tastings, and Corks &Forks events are great.
The «Grand Tasting» event, this past weekend, exceeded my expectations.
We met a sweet couple that travelled here from Amherst for this event.
It was a wonderful time.

They have everything I need when I come into town from LA. Quintessa, Silver Oak, Krug, Schramsberg, and the list goes on. There is no other place that I know of around here that carries my favorites.

I do like popping in here on Saturday afternoon’s for the tastings and they have a nice selection. Sometimes the staff is very nice and friendly and sometimes they’re a bit snooty. I wonder sometimes if it correlates with my appearance when I’m in there, but that may be all in my head.
And, they’re not always great at manning the register on slow days. Once my husband waited at the register for someone to come out for the back and ring him up. He stood there for 7 minutes (he timed it) with a very expensive bottle of Basil Hayden’s whiskey and no one came out to help him. So he left the bottle on the counter and walked out.

Ralph, Kim and the entire team are awesome. Whether you are looking for something inexpensive for something for a special occasion they always come up with a great selection. The shop provides a cool shopping experience. The selection offers solid standby or go to choices along with a good amount of new and different stuff being rotated in. The regular tastings are a step up from what you find at other shops.

I don’t tend to come here often, but when I do pop in, as I did yesterday afternoon, I find myself wondering why not. I always find the staff helpful and friendly and I love that anywhere.
It’s a nicely sized and well-​organized shop which sells mostly wine with smaller beer and other spirits sections.
And it was for wine I came yesterday having, in very impromptu fashion, decided to invite a couple of the neighbors over for drinks and canapes to toast the Royal Wedding. (Any excuse will do, won’t it?).
Specifically I thought to buy some sparkling wine and was immediately engaged in a lively conversation with two of the staff over the selections.
Between the two, they’d tasted all the sparklers and that was of great help to me.
I ended up with two choices: Sofia which is a F.F. Coppola brand (named of course after his director daughter) and then a local one from Westport Vineyards which is practically in our own backyard. (Massachusetts being one of the original colonies and all, I thought this choice was particularly apt.)
Ralph’s also hosts occasional wine tastings and I’ve enjoyed the few I’ve attended and discovered a some nice wines this way. Always a plus.
And I love that they sell one of my favorite California whites, Conundrum, made by the Wagner family in Napa. Give it a try if you can find it; it’s yummy.
It’s definitely worth a stop in when you’re in the Derby Street area.

Well, I love this store. The entire front section is filled with bargain wines that actually taste great. And not those giant magnums of brands we’ve all heard of. It is very exciting to know that I can come here and get a bottle of excellent Pinot Noir for under $ 20! Also, the staff is super friendly and helpful. They have wine and beer tastings quite often– every week if I’m not mistaken, so there are plenty of opportunities to taste before you buy. I can’t speak highly enough about this unpretentious store in what is quite a pretentious shopping center.

After shopping next door at Whole Foods I decided to have a quick peek into Ralph’s just in case there was something I could not live without. I have been searching still for that elusive bottle of Indian wine I liked so much but was SOL here. No «exotic» locales off the beaten path, just the standards and a good selection of them. I did end up with two cheap and cheerful reds, one Italian, one Australian. Unfortunately their computers were down and I am not a cash girl so payment was run through one of those super old fashioned imprint machines. Like where did they get that thing? eBay??? Hope the charge goes through correctly. And since I was bringing them back to NY I asked for them to be well wrapped which seemed to throw the guy off. Luckily I had some junk in my trunk but if I did not… I was prepared to be wowed but was not. Hope the wines are good.
3.5 stars
(Well worth enduring the short ad)