Royal Wines and Liquors

Great selection at a good price and helpful staff. They offer free delivery as well within business hours (open until 11 Thur-​Sat).
Great location on 9^th ave.

Great selection and prices are not marked up (unlike other liquor stores in the neighborhood). The staff is friendly and they offer delivery service with no fee, which is always a plus!

This place is terrible. Not only are they 10−20% more expensive than the other nearby stores, the staff is not knowledgeable about their own small selection of liquor & wine.

In the late 70’s and early 80’s there was a TV series called «In search of» starring Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame. I came to know it through reruns on A&E during the early 90’s and each week a paranormal topic would be explored. Think of it as a predecessor to Ancient Aliens.
So on New Year’s eve we were «in search of» not the Loch Ness Monster but rather a wine shop to pick up a bottle of vino instead of arriving empty handed at a friend’s party.
Sheer luck alone drew us to Royal Wines and Liquors as we had crossed from the east side of 9^th Avenue to the west. As an exercise in retro wandering we decided to forgo use of the Unilocal app and keep our smartphones as simple telephones. What excitement!
Lo and behold, a wine shop appeared, one of many in the area. Not quite as fancy or expensive as a shop I later encountered with the name ‘vintner’ in it, Royal Wines is a place to go to acquire booze– you don’t care where the grapes really came from, don’t require expert opinion and certainly don’t need to see a map of Long Island wineries to influence your decision. Instead you need a bottle of something and preferably not to pricey.
Royal Wines meets those criteria with ease. Loads of bottles of wine under $ 20 and $ 10, including the price friendly Il Bastardo featuring a fat looking man on the bottle who must be the ‘bastard’.
Service was friendly enough as I was wished a happy new year’s upon checking out. Our purchase at Royal Wines and Liquors certainly aided in making the new year’s a happy one.

These guys are great. I had a party last week and I loved the wine the recommended. Also, they accidentally over-​charged me. I didn’t notice, but they called me a few hours later to run my credit card again with the correct (lower!) price. They have free delivery and the delivery guy was also extremely nice and carried the bottles up the stairs for me. Its seems very much a family run store — so a good thing to support!