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Gnarly Vines
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Category: Beer, Wine & Spirits [Edit]
Neighborhood: Clinton Hill350 Myrtle Ave
(between Adelphi St & Carlton Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11205
(718) 797-3183
- Hours:
Mon-Thu. 12:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Fri-Sat. 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sun. 12:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
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12 reviews for Gnarly Vines
So my roommate and I walked by here and decided to stop in, good decision. They had wine-tasting available, so we drank and took a look around at their massive (for such a tiny place!) collection of wines and fancy shmancy liquors (green tea liquor (0 calories) and pama!). We ended up getting a giftbag (probably promotional for the holidays) which included 6 bottles (3 red, 3 white) for a mere $45! And 10% off! WHAT?! So good.
Needless to say, we're definitely going back to check out these digs to a greater detail in more detail later on.
I would like to say, I put the price range as inexpensive, but really it's up to you, they have a selection of wines under $10, but they have an EXTENSIVE collection of other wines and drinkable goodies.
The server at Abistro sent me here to pick up a bottle of wine, since they are BYO. I wonder how much business Gnarly Vines receives as a result. I also wonder why the Mets can't win a game, how much being dropped on my head as a toddler really affected me, and where that smell in my kitchen is coming from. But that is neither here nor there.
I walked in, and lo and behold, they were holding a wine tasting! I sampled two nice reds before we picked a bottle of white out of their stock.
I'm not sure if it was just that day, but the store appeared to be in disarray. Not that I care about that sort of thing; I was there to buy wine, and Gnarly Vines seems to be a great place to do that. The staff is warm and welcoming, and they have a nice selection of affordable choices (many even under $10) which can definitely bring dinner costs down.
Oh, and if you're buying a chilled bottle of white, bring the man a room-temperature bottle so he can replace the one in the cooler. It'll save him some trouble.
What a great wine seller! Brian and his professional staff are knowledgeable and very attentive to customers. They have gourmet quality spirits at great prices. Gnarly Vines is a truly green business having a bicycle delivery system, energy efficient electrical fixtures and using recovered resources in their build-out. They also promote community with their many wine tastings that include other small businesses in the community, and creative ways of making Brooklyn more livable and human. The owner is frequently on the floor attending to customers and fine-tuning his stock to represent the taste of the neighborhood, not just his own palate.
If you are going to a dinner party or simply want to enjoy a bottle while relaxing with your sweetheart, these folks will surely help you find what you are looking for.
Love the decor
Love the the selection
Love the staff. they make you feel special when you are there. there are frequent wine tastings going on in the back which is really cool. Just be careful and bring your own bag because they will charge you for a bag if you do not bring one. I live that they are mission alligned with the enviornment but if you forget it can be a little stressful. Make sure to sign up on the mailing list too!
This is a great neighborhood wine shop. We support this place 100%. The selection is very good with lower priced wines to wines you are interested in impressing others with at a party. Additionally, the owner of the shop is very friendly and helpful. The various tastings they have are a bonus. All around great place so just go to gnarly and check it out for yourself.
I love this place. Every bottle of wine I have gotten from here has been something the owner recommended and they have all be very affordable and great. The first time we stopped in here was by chance. Walking back from Ft. Greene Park with our dog we spotted the wine store for the first time. Since we were having a get together that night we decided to stop in and check it out, but couldn't decide who should go in since we had the dog. The owner himself came out and invited us all in, the big black hound/lab included. As he said, it had never been a four footed animal but the two footed kind that has broken his bottles.
We usually go to Thirst around the corner and while everyone there is nice and helpful, the selection is slightly more pricey and the store very cramped. Gnarly Vines is huge and they had a great range of prices. We told them it was a casual dinner party with wine drinkers and non wine drinkers, white wine drinkers and red wine drinkers. They helped us pick out 3 bottles, 2 reds and 1 white, that went over well with everyone.
They also have a good selection of boxed wines. Now, you might put your breaks on here, but give it a chance. There has been a revolution in boxed wines over the last 5 years and some of them are actually very good. And who can turn down something that is also very environmental friendly? Easy and affordable recyclable packaging, more glasses than a normal bottle, great for the park and picnics, and lasts a lot longer than your traditional glass bottle, this is not your mother's Franzia.
Hip hip for a friendly, knowledgeable wine store!
I am definitely a fan.
Brian (owner) is incredibly personable - and helpful!
I can always find a bottle within my price range (whatever that is on a given night) -- that is tasty!
The staff always offers to help, although I prefer to wander on my own and find something that grabs me.
And they have puppy treats for my dog. :)
I had exactly an hour to get to E 40th and 2nd Ave.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not the one who's always on-time, but for Dan's birthday at Phoenix Garden http://www.yelp.com/bi..., I was compelled to at least try flirting with being on-time.
"Damn, man, it's raining!" I said to myself when I got to the lobby.
I had to run all the way up to my third floor apartment and grab my umbrella while juking and dancing in order to prevent my cat from pulling a Kurt Russell in Escape from New York.
By the time I got to Gnarly Vines to pick up a couple of bottles, it was already 18 past the hour.
I placed my umbrella where they had the converted garbage can for the wet nylons and I stormed in. Everyone stared as my wet raincoat fluttered all about in my haste.
It was clear that some type of a get-together was going on, since there were many baby carriages and folks sauntering about inside the relatively small store. No, it didn't strike me, until my third round-trip sprinting back and forth the store that I realized that there was wine tasting.
"I don't care . . . wtf are these cheap bottles?" I said to myself as I rushed about.
After the fourth trip up and down the main isle, dodging toddlers and stem-toting parents, I gave up and went to the desk area and without addressing any one of the three employees, I said out loud, "I'm in a hurry and I need a couple of cheap bottles, one red and one white."
After that I was out of the store as soon as the register guy was able to process my credit card transaction.
$15 for two. A $6 red (Vina Borgia 2006 Campo de Borja) that folks enjoyed more than a fancier Italian bottle, and a $8 Pinot Grigio ((Vigneti Del Sole "Pasqua" 2006) that drank well.*
After catching the Myrtle bus (a minor mistake: I didn't know it would turn the wrong way on Flatbush) and hopping the 4, I got to Phoenix just on time (of course, I was drenched from walking fast).
I may have found my new favorite wine store in town.
* Yeah, "drank well." I'm starting new trends in wine-tasting terms. Next up: "kinda good."
5 Stars for Good Booze and Super-Friendliness
I live right above a Discount Liquor store which has a perfectly acceptable selection of cheap wines, and yet I will go 5 blocks out of the way in the cold and/or rain to Gnarly Vines, because their selection is just SO DAMN GOOD!!
I love them because they have a pretty extensive selection of under $10 wines that are really really delicious, not just mediocre.
The owner Brian is extremely helpful if you are looking for something in particular. I'm a classy gal, so of course I asked him right off the bat what kind of schwill I could get for close to 6 bucks. He recommended a delicious red for around $7, the name of which escapes me right now, but it's a mostly white label with a few leaves of grass and a little bug - and it's AWESOME!
My other favorite bottle that I've gotten there, and continue to get over and over again because I love it, was another recommendation, and it's $8 or $9... once again, can't remember the name, but the label has a picture of 4 little girls crowded onto a Vespa. Delicioso.
You will not be sorry if you go and purchase either one of the aforementioned bottles (which I have been unable to find at the other wine shops I've checked, in both Chelsea and Park Slope). Or let Brian know what you like and I guarantee he'll give you a fabulous recommendation.
Another reason to love Gnarly Vines - their weekly (and sometimes bi-weekly) wine tastings!! The people who have done the tastings the past few times that I went were really really sweet and informative and non-snooty. And generous pourers. Oh and if you give them your email address they will update you on store events about once a week. Which is great for us aspiring winos.
And if you need more convincing for some bizarre reason, they also can keep track of your past purchases (although I'm sure if you'd like to remain an anonymous alcoholic, they would be cool with it). My sister and I share an account, so if she brings home a bottle of wine that I end up loving but then recycles the bottle too quick for me to take note of the name, they can look it up in the system and tell me which one it was. This little dealy does not make or break my love for Gnarly's, but it's a nice bonus feature that I do utilize and enjoy.
Brian is actually so kind and friendly that I end up getting flustered and saying mundane things before giggling and running away, instead of being my normal longwinded chatty self. So I can say nice things about him behind his back on Yelp, but not when I'm in his shop. He's lovely.
A great new addition to the neighborhood, Gnarly Vines has a great selection, reasonable prices and a neighborhood feel. I like the industrial/art gallery design of the store, and the regular tastings. The owner, Brian is personable and extremely knowledgeable, and, if I remember correctly, a Brooklyn native! We've done well with his recommendations, including a great bottle of champagne for under $10.
They also have a unique selection of boutique liquors - I bought a tasty and potent bottle of Kentucky bourbon - it wasn't cheap (about $45), but well worth the money.
I also really like that they keep track of your purchases - so if you're like me and never remember to save the receipt or the label on that random bottle that turned out to be so tasty, no worries - they can look it up for you.
Cheers!
This store is very poorly laid out. Impossible to find anything if you had something specific in mind, and even worse for browsing. It seems everything's just tossed up on the racks, willy nilly. Or if there's a method to the madness, it's impossible to tell what that is. It's also dark. This is not a bar, it's a store. If you're not going to bother to organize anything or set up some signage or creative displays, at least give me a little light so I can individually scrutinize the bottles.
Gnarly Vines is so poorly set up that I came in on Thanksgiving morning looking for something to bring to dinner and ended up leaving without buying anything, simply because I couldn't really tell what was on offer. Also, the place was dead. And I didn't even rate a notice from the staff. Thanksgiving is probably the busiest wine selling day of the year, second only to New Year's. If you can't bring it on Thanksgiving, you have problems.
I really like this store. I've only been in once, but since I now live less than 2 blocks away, I'm sure I'll be back (often). They have a very wide selection - wines from $6 to $80, from California to Morocco. The 2 guys that were in there were SO friendly (I think that one of them was the owner) and they seem to always offer tastings.
I just moved into the neighborhood and had been to one of the other wine stores nearby - didn't have the best experience. I asked to see some inexpensive red wines, and they didn't/wouldn't show me anything under $20. Far cry from this place.
Gnarly Vines will definitely be my go to place for inexpensive everyday wine AND special occasion wine. To me, it's exactly what I would want in a wine store - knowledgeable staff, great variety and no pretention what so ever.
