Liquor and Wine Depot

Great place. As others have stated this is a diamond in the rough. It looks a little rough on outside but all associates are very helpful and good selection of craft beers for great prices.

My neighborhood booze shop! Ladies discounts on Tuesdays. Score! They have also recently added a growler station with local craft beers on tap. Double score! Prices are excellent and the staff is always cheerful and helpful. It’s a small space with a lot of good stuff crammed in, but that means that I know they will always have what I’m looking for.

If the other liquor and wine stores in Memphis demonstrated ¹⁄₁₀ of the customer service and commitment to «fair and reasonable» pricing that the Liquor and Wine Depot does, day after day. .. guess what? There would not have been a recent referendum in Memphis/​Shelby County to sell wine in «big box» and grocery stores. These people are unbelievable! Greg who is the owner (or, his employees) will find what you want on his shelves or those of his Germantown store and bring it to his Mendenhall place of business and if he doesn’t have it at his other store. .. he’ll order it for you and charge you a fair and reasonable price for it. In fact, they advertise sale prices on their inventory that are actually sale prices!!! I live in downtown Memphis, but my shadow will no longer grace the front door of Joe’s Wine or Buster’s (despite both being well run businesses). .. I’ll make the drive (regardless of how much I hate driving east on Poplar) to do business with these people, and leave their place of business with my favorite bottle of wine, a few extra dollars in my wallet, and feeling like a valued customer. There is absolutely no reason to go elsewhere and that’s the God honest truth.

It’s not much to look at from the outside, but I’d been eyeing the place every time we stopped at Gibson’s. Once I heard about the growler filling station, I knew it was for me.
We brought our HCB growler from home and headed in on a Saturday night. It was pretty quiet considering the day, which left us with time for some beer tasting and recommendations from the staff. We ended up with a great local brew at an even greater price; cheaper thsn a fill up at most other places in town. I can’t say much for the other booze, but it looked like they had a pretty good selection.

Me (total wine idiot): «Ummm is it possible to get a ‘nice’ bottle of merlot for $ 30?»
Guy working: «Hell yeah. You can get an outstanding bottle of merlot for $ 30!»
And then he hands me a bottle and I go home to one happy surprise.
Truth be told, I would have never even noticed this place if my boyfriend and I weren’t on a diet and staring down the donut store next door to it. We were craving either sweets or alcohol and decided that red wine was the «healthier» cheat. So in we went. It is a cute little shop, pretty small, and very cramped, but the staff impressed me 100%. They know their stuff and I love that he didn’t make me feel stupid when I admitted to not knowing a thing about wine. Instead, he just said here you go and enjoy.