Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits

During our Connecitcut Avenue journey, we needed a place to pick up some wine & we were able to see the sign & park.
Walked in, got a nice hello & how may we be helped? Different palates of wine for different folks, so the very friendly salesman was able to assist us simultaenously. I was in high Malbec mode as the selection of wineries was pretty good for the tight knit section.
Very good prices, especially the more you purchase. I got a kick out of the little signs that reads, «Regular Bottle, 1 Bottle Special, Case Special». It’s not a very big store, yet has depth in its layout & good variation of libations to offer.
I took advantage of the Diseno that had a good price attached to the bottle (s). My gal pal obviously was happy with the price point for her selection as she walked out with 3 bottles… not judging, just saying.
Mental note made that when in need for libations en route to the city, this is place to come to.

They brought out a six of Brooklyn lager with Best By date of August 2015. I said «have anything with a later date?» and he said «no, do you want it or not». I would have expected him to say something like «sorry about that». I left and bought fresh beer at magruders.

My husband and I fell in love with a South African wine called Groot Constantia, 2012 Pinotage. It was only available in South Africa and it was his gift to me from his trip.
I tried many places and finally called Chevy Chase Wine and Spirits and Brian helped place my order and we obtained a case for my husband’s graduation. While it took months to obtain, Brian updated me every step of the way.
I will be back because of the awesome customer service and yummy wine selection.

This is one of the best wine and beer places I have ever been to, so I feel very lucky to live 5 min walk away from it. At the first glance store looks like any liquor store, nothing special, however after you spend a couple of minutes looking for a selection of wine or beer, you will realize that they have a serious selection of both. I can really judge hard alcohol drinks as these are not my favorites, but I have had bought these there too.
The prices ranges can fit anyones budget and people working there are just great. They are very knowledgable and friendly.
I am yet to find an equivalent of Chevy Chase Liquors in Hoboken!

They have a great selection of craft beers, and a sale shelf too, in the back of the store near the cash register. Not a lot, but some are only $ 1.25!
On my most recent visit I found exactly what I was looking for: Mathilde Framboise. The MoCo Liquor stores didn’t have it. They want to sell you the pricy Chambord brand. Thanks to the helpful employee, and unlike U2, I found what I was looking for.
Kir Royales at my place for Oscar night! Any takers?

Closes at 8:55? (Not 9???) on a Friday/​Saturday. Seriously? Otherwise I like the people who work here, friendly.

The beer selection here is a little better than Rodman’s (which has the advantage of being cheaper and metro accessible) but is inferior to Magruder’s next door. The atmosphere here reminds me of a haunted house and the staff could be fill-​ins for the ride as well. Prices are stupid expensive and make no sense. It’s sort of a creepy place to visit. I hate going here and have gone about 10 – 12 times and rarely buy anything. The main advantage they have over Rodman’s and Magruder’s is that you can buy singles of beers I just want to try.
Pro Tip: There is a Maryland run state monopoly liquor store next to the Friendship Heights metro that is called Chevy Chase Wine and Liquor that doesn’t really have beer at all and much less wine than here, BUT they have a much better Scotch and Bourbon selection that is also very cheap. Don’t get confused between that and this privately run store within DC where there are no alcohol laws.

DO NOT BUY THE LIVING SOCIAL DEAL!
You will spend $ 45 for $ 30 of some very cheap wine, all of it will be fox brook.

If there was a ¹⁄₈ star, I would have selected it for their living social deal! This is a case of misleading advertising. All the wines from same winery; I found the equivalent wines for fraction of cost. It is not the price alone that was disturbing, but the poor quality of the so-​called «preselected» wine.

I really had to think about this before I wrote the review. As a couple of others have mentioned I came here solely for the Living Social deal, which advertised 6 bottles of wine (up to $ 100 value) for $ 45. Of course, the LS deal doesn’t tell you the brand of wine, just that it’s «pre-​selected», so there was no way to research the actual value before making the purchase. However, as the link below will show, this «$ 100 value» is grossly overrated. Don’t get me wrong… the wine wasn’t bad, but I just feel that with such misrepresentation of their price, this isn’t the kind of business I want to patronize.
With that said, the staff were friendly and knowledgable, and I was given a coupon good for 15% off my next wine purchase, good for unlimited bottles of wine. But if you have to lure people in with false claims, it’s just shady and leaves a bad taste.

My review is mostly targeted at Chevy Chase’s Wine & Spirt’s recent LivingSocial offer, but I think it speaks volumes about both businesses overall as well.
We purchased a $ 45 LivingSocial voucher that claimed to be worth $ 100 (and a savings of 55%) for six pre-​selected bottles of wine.
To cut to the chase, we were very, very disappointed. A quick internet search showed the average cost of these bottles from other consumer wine stores (not wholesale) was no more than $ 6/​bottle and some were as little as $ 3/​bottle. After discovering the reality of this «deal» we went out of our way to return to the store and asked for either substitutes, a refund, or simply $ 45 worth of store credit. The proprietor offered a refund, but said that we would have to contact LS directly to get it.
I have never been this disappointed with a LivingSocial deal or their partner business before. I’m willing to go as far as to say that this deal bordered on fraud. The street value of the product offered was no more than $ 40 (using generous valuations), and certainly is no where near the $ 100 value or 55% savings. A deal like this brings in to question the reputation of CC&S and LivingSocial. I don’t plan to patronize CC&S again (so it seems like they missed an opportunity to win a customer). The experience will also give me serious pause before I consider buying any further deals from Living Social.
p. s. I debated to myself whether CCW&S’ rapid willingness to offer a refund was a good thing and deserved a star. On its face, it seems like yes. I didn’t like what I got, so they tried to reconcile. At the same time I’m suspicious – he didn’t even blink as if he might be surprised by our reaction to the sub-​par offering. And I think that’s because they know very well that they are pawing off the equivalent of $ 2 Buck Chuck at a hefty premium.
p. p. s. LivingSocial has refused to offer a full refund; instead they are offering LS «Deal Bucks» so that we have the opportunity to get F-​d again. Lame.

I’ve been here 4 – 5 times and this is at best a 3 when the guy with the white beard isn’t there (but he seems to be there a lot). They have an ok beer selection. When you ask if they have a specific beer and they don’t have it, they rudely and condescendingly respond.

Amazing beer selection. Walking in to the small store I thought it would be very limited and it awed me. I hoped they had Long Trail from Vt. which only recently came to DC — they have 5 kinds and a variety 12 pack. The beer man knew when they’d have another shipment of it (Tuesday) and knew it’d only been in DC for 2 months.

This is a beer store /​liquor store that is within walking distance of the Friendship Heights station. It has a good selection of beer and about ¹⁄₃ of the store is devoted to beer entirely.
The setup is a little odd. There are basically singles on the shelf only. Lots of a shelves with a couple of bottles on each shelf of each beer, maybe 6 individual beers to a shelf. Each are individually marked for sale, there are discounts for ⁶⁄₁₂ /​24 packs of any particular beer. I guess its a bottle lovers paradise. There are several hundred varieties of beers there. Seriously impressive.
The staff is helpful and the two people I talked to knew a lot about their inventory. Also, their website has a partially complete inventory online (although you have to search it and some of their spelling is questionable). I seriously think that I have found my new beer store in general. At least I have three really reliable ones now. I am seriously impressed by Chevy Chase and if you are in the DC area and want to make a mix pack of beer, get to this store.
Good Job Chevy Chase.

Like at most DC jobs, by the end of the week I usually needed a drink or two. This was close to where I lived and they have a decent selection of alcohol at all price points. I was usually able to stock up a pretty decent amount and not spend all the money I had worked for that week!
The staff was friendly and gave me some great suggestions of things to try. Parking is a bit of a pain though but you’ve got to expect that.

Crazy good selection, crazy high prices. This place has the best beer selection I’ve seen in a while, but the vast majority of the beers are only available in singles, and the singles are pretty expensive. There are no six-​packs you’d be excited about that cost 10.00 or less, I can guarantee you that. Bombers also run expensive from the mundane (Rogue Dead Guy for 7.99? What a joke.) to the exciting (lots of stuff I would be excited to try ran $ 10+ for a 22. I bought one because everyone in there was friendly, but if I didn’t choose the greatest beer ever, I’ll have wasted a decent amount of money).
I will definitely never be back to buy beer for myself. The prices are so high I feel like I’d may as well just go to a good beer bar. On the other hand, the next time I look to buy a gift for a fellow beer lover, this will be my first and only stop.

In Maryland, there are only a handful of places where I’ll go buy beer:
1) The Perfect Pour (Columbia, MD)
2) Olney Beer and Wine (Olney, MD) duhh
3) Gilly’s (Rockville, MD)
4) The Pump (College Park, MD)
5) Chevy Chase Wine and Spirits (Washington DC)
Great selection of beer. I know it’s been said a lot, but it’s true. You can’t hide it. All separated into individual bottles. If you’re the brave one and would like to try your stab at a bunch of beers, come check this place out.
Although the one thing that does bother me is that they only sell it in individual bottles. Yea, they have a few six packs in the fridge, but you have to buy the bottles in singles, packs of 4, or a case. Just wish they would offer more specials/​sales.

I remember the first time I stopped in Chevy Case Wine & Spirits to pillage the craft beer section. It was glorious. a kid in a candy store.
They always have the things I am looking for in stock and you can easily check their website for prices, in stock items and not to mention quick responses from the staff via email. They have also been kind enough to hold cases of beer that would likely have been gone in a flash (Bell’s Hopslam to be exact).
The prices aren’t the best I have ever seen, but many of the craft beers and foreign selection are very reasonably priced. I continue to come back, as they often have great weekly deals on good cases of beer. I haven’t purchased much wine from this store, but the selection seems quite good as well.

If your eyes light up and you begin to wring your hands in glee at such odd terms like high gravity, hefe, grains of paradise and trappist this may very well be your salvation.
Like many typical suburban teenagers who went through high school and college and dipped (dove?) their toes in the party scene, I grew up drinking beer to do one thing and one thing only — get drunk. Yes, weekends were made for MGD, Beast (Beast Lite actually, tasted LESS like beer!), Coors Lite, Icehouse and Mickeys. Ring a bell? It’s weened many a party goer through high school and college. Throw in a St. Ides or Colt 45 into the mix from time to time, and that was about the extent of my beer experience.
Fast forward to today, and some would say I’m an unapologetic beer snob. I’m not sure when I started refusing the likes of Coors Lite, Budweiser and their ilk … but I’m happy I did. And it’s places like Chevy Chase that feed the addiction.
Craft brews, Belgians, German, Irish — they seem to cover it all. Hard to find craft brews and seasonal runs can be found here. Scaldis Noël? Anderson Valley Winter Solstice? Yes. That oddly named Tripel that you fell in love with at Granville Moore? Probably stocked — and if it isn’t, just ask. The staff is immensely knowledgeable, friendly and willing to help. It’s no wonder they often get mentioned as one of the top beer stores in both the area and U.S.
Go. Drink. Repeat!
(Yes, the do sell wine and liquor here too. Sadly, I have a mortgage and actually enjoy flushing toilets and heat in my house …)

This is a funky little store. It took me a while to figure out where this place was — I thought it was in Chevy Chase proper — but eventually found it and the 1809 beer they had in stock (the lone store in DC).
Outstanding collection of beer — beer that will not be found in any other store in DC. The beer merchant knows his stuff and is very willing to help you find what you are looking for… and the prices aren’t bad either, though there are better deals to be had — certainly worth supporting this great selection of hard to find beers.
I am not a huge fan of their wine selection or prices — nothing really wrong with it – but just not my cup of tea.
Will return.