Marylanders where is your wine

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Anonymous wrote:At the beer & wine stores. Usually one outside of/next to every supermarket.

False. Lived in MD for 5 years (close in suburbs) and beer/wine stores are much harder to find than supermarkets.

You can find wine and beer (not liquor tho) at specialty bottle shops, which are often easier to find than the state-run stores.

I live in IL now and we can buy liquor at CVS and it is a revelation.

Much harder to find? Maybe for you. Every grocery store near me in MoCo has a beer/wine store nearby.

NP.. I'm originally from CA, and when we first got here, it was a shocker that we could not buy wine at the grocery stores. In CA, we bought wine at TJ, Costco, etc...

Anyways, I do agree that there are alcohol stores dotted all around us, up and down the pike. But, I'm in MoCo. Maybe where OP is it's diferent. Maybe booze stores aren't everywhere like they are here in MoCo.

Where are you OP?

Fellow Californian here. I've been on the East Coast for over a decade now and it still blows my mind that you can't buy vodka in the grocery store at 9am on a Sunday, like the good lord intended!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, and if you are in Montgomery county you can forget about selection. There is a wine committee that chooses what wines can be sold. Not sure what logical reason could be used to support this but that’s MC.

You have county sommeliers?

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In all seriousness can we get this on the ballot? I want to buy wine at TJs in Rockville like I could in Los Angeles. Whats with the restrictions Moco?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the beer & wine stores. Usually one outside of/next to every supermarket.

False. Lived in MD for 5 years (close in suburbs) and beer/wine stores are much harder to find than supermarkets.

You can find wine and beer (not liquor tho) at specialty bottle shops, which are often easier to find than the state-run stores.

I live in IL now and we can buy liquor at CVS and it is a revelation.

Much harder to find? Maybe for you. Every grocery store near me in MoCo has a beer/wine store nearby.

NP.. I'm originally from CA, and when we first got here, it was a shocker that we could not buy wine at the grocery stores. In CA, we bought wine at TJ, Costco, etc...

Anyways, I do agree that there are alcohol stores dotted all around us, up and down the pike. But, I'm in MoCo. Maybe where OP is it's diferent. Maybe booze stores aren't everywhere like they are here in MoCo.

Where are you OP?

Fellow Californian here. I've been on the East Coast for over a decade now and it still blows my mind that you can't buy vodka in the grocery store at 9am on a Sunday, like the good lord intended!

Pretty sure they drank wine all day during Jesus' time. But seriously, it is annoying to have to make separate runs for booze. I like to one stop shop.

I also wanted to get DH (a huge wine lover) one of those wine around the world where they send you a couple of bottles per month from various countries. They don't ship to MD. I got DH this present years ago when we were in CA.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in MOCO but use to live in NOVA for years. Yeah it was convenient to buy beer and wine at grocery stores in NOVA and also I use to smoke back then and Cigs was significantly cheaper than MD. Beer and wine too whenever I get a chance to cross the bridge I load up on alcohol at Total Wine and beer, way cheaper than MD.

DH goes to Total Wine in McLean, and we live in MoCo. And the irony is that Total Wine HQ is in MoCo.

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Ha- maybe a change is on the horizon! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/unlike-most-of-the-country-maryland-consumers-cant-purchase-alcohol-at-grocery-stores-that-may-change-soon/2020/10/02/e9528fb4-03f3-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html

In the meantime, be happy you’re not stuck with state stores and beer distributors, like what I grew up with in PA

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, and if you are in Montgomery county you can forget about selection. There is a wine committee that chooses what wines can be sold. Not sure what logical reason could be used to support this but that’s MC.

You have county sommeliers?

No. Just a bunch of politicians. I don’t even know why that law exists. It seems ripe for bribery and kick backs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha- maybe a change is on the horizon! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/unlike-most-of-the-country-maryland-consumers-cant-purchase-alcohol-at-grocery-stores-that-may-change-soon/2020/10/02/e9528fb4-03f3-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html

In the meantime, be happy you’re not stuck with state stores and beer distributors, like what I grew up with in PA

thanks for the link.

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Welcome to the Communist Republic of Montgomery County!

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Anonymous wrote:In all seriousness can we get this on the ballot? I want to buy wine at TJs in Rockville like I could in Los Angeles. Whats with the restrictions Moco?!

Can we get opening schools on the ballot too?

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Anonymous wrote:Weird thing to crowd-source on DCUM. This is why god created smart phones.

Ah just a little light hearted complaining. I’m in Annapolis. Near East Annapolis elementary school

Annapolis -- the town that never naps!


Mills on Main Street is your best bet for wine.

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OP here I found wine at a Walgreens while picking up medications for a family member. Apparently it was a grandfathering situation. They had a separate cashier just for wine and beer and a crazy long line.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in MOCO but use to live in NOVA for years. Yeah it was convenient to buy beer and wine at grocery stores in NOVA and also I use to smoke back then and Cigs was significantly cheaper than MD. Beer and wine too whenever I get a chance to cross the bridge I load up on alcohol at Total Wine and beer, way cheaper than MD.

DH goes to Total Wine in McLean, and we live in MoCo. And the irony is that Total Wine HQ is in MoCo.

Which is exactly why we don't have a retail store - stupid regs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the beer & wine stores. Usually one outside of/next to every supermarket.

False. Lived in MD for 5 years (close in suburbs) and beer/wine stores are much harder to find than supermarkets.

You can find wine and beer (not liquor tho) at specialty bottle shops, which are often easier to find than the state-run stores.

I live in IL now and we can buy liquor at CVS and it is a revelation.

Much harder to find? Maybe for you. Every grocery store near me in MoCo has a beer/wine store nearby.

NP.. I'm originally from CA, and when we first got here, it was a shocker that we could not buy wine at the grocery stores. In CA, we bought wine at TJ, Costco, etc...

Anyways, I do agree that there are alcohol stores dotted all around us, up and down the pike. But, I'm in MoCo. Maybe where OP is it's diferent. Maybe booze stores aren't everywhere like they are here in MoCo.

Where are you OP?

Fellow Californian here. I've been on the East Coast for over a decade now and it still blows my mind that you can't buy vodka in the grocery store at 9am on a Sunday, like the good lord intended!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It gets even weirder if you live in Montgomery County, op. I've lived here for 5 years and lived in a neighboring county prior to my arrival. I was shocked when I went out one Sunday to purchase a bottle of wine only to find that liquor stores are closed on Sundays!

Except that they’re not.