About Us

Mt. Washington Wine Company has provided top notch customer service and a carefully chosen selection of delicious wines since it opened its doors in 2003.

Our staff is small, and most of what we've learned about wine and wine & food pairing has come from books, independent research...and of course, plenty of drinking & eating.

We believe that we are unlike your average wine shop or liquor store, and here's why:

Serving you is the most important thing we do. We want you to feel comfortable in our store while we take care of your shopping needs.

We’re not wine geeks – we want you to find the right wine for you, without inflicting ourselves on you. In other words, we’re big on help, short on attitude.

We actually taste every wine before we buy it, trying to find the best tasting stuff for the best value.

While we have a small, hand-picked selection (about 300 or so different labels), we offer delicious wines from lots of different places, made from lots of different grape varieties, in lots of different price ranges. Think of it as a great restaurant wine list, without the restaurant.

We make purchasing decisions based on taste, not on scores (those silly numbers handed out by certain wine periodicals) or vintages (too many good wines would slip through the cracks if we dismissed a whole region or worse, country, based on a general weather report).

We shy away from big wine brands. It’s not that they’re not often good wines, it’s just that you can buy them anywhere and we find that not having what we call a “category buster” – a label that’s so popular that nothing comparable or better has a chance of selling – allows us to help you explore the fascinating world of wine, and to consider something delicious that you otherwise might not have tried.

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Last Updated October 20, 2010