Embassy Wines & Spirits

My neighborhood store — I always get great recommendations from the salespeople there, as well as prompt delivery when I need a few bottles over at my home. This store has low prices, as well as very nice, polite staff. Definitely recommended!!!

Only 1 review and a 1 star?! THIS is why I love Unilocal and particularly, love being Elite so I can say good things about nice hardworking businesspeople.
I can’t imagine what this Andrew R’s problem is, though certainly one has to be suspicious when someone’s Unilocal handle is «BEATEN AND ROBBED BY ORAL SURGEON.» This bespeaks mental instability at the very least. Everyone I have known who lived or worked in Astoria was normal and nice. He must be the token cuckoo.
This is a GREAT store. It’s convenient to my apartment but Garnet which is snooty is not much further and because I take the 66 crosstown from Hunter, Garnet is easy for me too.
I love this store. One day they had a tasting on a horrific cold day. I was on the UWS and for the first time understood why Upper East Siders refuse to move to the UWS under any circumstances. It’s f***** freezing over there when the wind blows off the Hudson! I cabbed because the 72 never came by Stephen Wise Temple near my dance studio – and I saw a cab door nearly blown off – and arrived to my hood happy about a 10 degree bump.
I buy Knob Creek here every 2 months when I’m in the city for my friend in whose apartment I live when it’s available as my friend is a whiskey drinker and if not drinking Middleton or something obscenely pricey, Knob is the go-​to daily whiskey.
They have a bargain closet with wines under 15, which includes many under 10.
You couldn’t ask for more in a liquor store off a street with brownstones in the 8 – 9 million range, an area with restaurants and bars where you can’t get a glass of wine not at happy hour for under 13 – 14.
Embassy is great. I also love 67 Wine which is much bigger and a true wine lover’s mecca. But of all the UES liquor stores, I go to this one the most.
I had a really good experience at the place on Park around 55^th this week. (I have to look up the name but they had a tasting on ¹⁰⁄₁₆ from 2 – 4 as I was walking back from New York Health and Racquet, which I will Unilocal about now, a great surprise as anything on Park or Mad is generally overpriced. They were doing a tasting of 3 Arboleda wines and I bought the Carmanere, a Chilean wine with a fascinating history and for once, I liked the 20 better than the 95.)
I highly recommend this if you live in the 60s East. There’s other stuff in the 80s I like too. My friend was here on ⁹⁄₁₁ and everything was closed, so with a friend and neighbor walked up to 88^th or so to get some wine at the only store open that horrific and life-​transforming day.

360 degrees. That was the turning of my liver, advising me to stop abusing this most important of organs.
Weeks earlier, I strolled into a liquor store and asked for a good $ 50 bottle of quality white French burgundy. I got a lecture on those acidic particles that cause burning in the throat and then he handed me a bottle that came to $ 46.81. He had cradled it lovingly in his arms. I was impressed.
At first sip, I thought, «Gee, how acid-​free this is!» Over the next few weeks, however, a different yet familiar feeling gradually started accompanying sips: «Idiot, this sh-​t is sour, sucker.»

Embassy is more expensive than the hand full of other liquor stores in the area, but it’s open at least an hour later than the rest. It has an OK selection of wine and the standard liquors. It’s great if I have to pick up something quick and last minute, but if you have the time (and it’s before 9pm), it’s worth your while to go up to Garnet Wines & Liquors.