MK M.
Yelp
I have walked by this place many times and thought "thank god a real wine store near where I live" so I had a dinner date and decided to walk in and get one nicer wine (not from the asian liquors stores everywhere in the area) in hopes of getting some nice wine for my date.
I apparently walked into a time where they were having wine tasting, which equaled a lot of awkward older white people being loud and in the way (the place is small). From the outside the place looks like they have a lot of great stuff, but until you come in and actually look, the products aren't that great. Yes they all have hand written tags on them of tasting notes, but that is a old sales trick.
After kinda getting annoyed at the close space with people and the noise level, I honestly just wanted to get out of there, so I read a tag of bottle of a Italian grape (which I know and have enjoyed before) and thought that would work just so I could get out of here. The tasting notes where exactly what I was looking for because my friend likes malbec and it was similar.
I grabbed a bottle from the stock (be careful with there stock, its awkward and I almost broke a bottle because its stocked vertically, so the first bottle I grabbed made all the top bottles come crashing down) and went to the front desk. A white mid 30s woman was infront and she was taking a lot of time with 3 bottles and I thought she was cashing out, but no. So I stood there and nothing was happening for about 5 minutes. She left she bottles on the counter and went somewhere, who cares right?
Then I moved to the side and cashed out, even the lady cashier was awkward, she obviously has never really worked in a store before, took her a few tries to scan the barcode, which were unsuccessful, so I said its 14.99, she replied "I know"...... I tried not to snap back.
End of the story, the bottle of wine was horrible. wasn't even close to the tag tasting notes it had on it, it was weird, think it was "corked" though it had a screw top.
Lessoned learned, appearances aren't everything, not with this store. Ill stick to my asian liquor store, which has much much much better products.