Best store for stocking up for wine for the Holidays

[Anonymous]

Pentagon Row. Rte. 123 in Tyson's (just west of the 123/7 interchange). There may be others.

There's one on at Mid-Pike Plaza on Rockville Pike, but that's Montgomery freaking County, so -- no wine.

PP's are right that it depends on what you're looking for. If you're opening $50+ bottles of wine, not your place. You used the words "stock up" and "moderately priced," so I think you'll do fine there. Their selection is not huge, but if I recall (I haven't been in awhile), almost everything was reliable and drinkable. It's the mass-produced, widely available stuff, but that doesn't mean it's bad. If you're looking for $20 California Cabernet that doesn't suck and will keep a crowd happy, they'll have it.

Stay between $12 and $25 and you'll be fine. If there's any real plonk there, it'll probably be under $10.

The nice thing about places like Calvert Woodley or MacArthur is that they have the high-end snobs covered, but they can also turn you on to good non-mass-produced $10 wine that you won't find at big non-wine stores. They can find something for everybody. But not everybody can make it to their one-store, in-city locations.

[Anonymous]

Rockville world market does in fact have wine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rockville world market does in fact have wine

And they have moved to Federal Plaza.

[Anonymous]

Last time I was at Calvert Woodley they were kind of obnoxious to me. I live in MD but I'll happily trek down to Total Wine in McLean (or Alexandria) to stock up for the holidays.

[Anonymous]

Rockville world market does in fact have wine


And they have moved to Federal Plaza.

Woo hoo! I'll have to check it out.

They didn't have it when I went a very long time ago, and I never went back.