Woolworths Liquor

This actually a very good liquor store, which probably shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does. There’s something about the idea of buying booze in a supermarket bottle shop that suggests to me that next I’ll walking around drinking straight out of a bottle in a brown paper bag. But there’s a really solid selection here of well-​priced red and white wines, a range of local and international sparklings, a good if not exhaustive range of beers, and an entire wall of the harder stuff that includes some higher-​end bottles that no one in their right mind would ever drink straight out of the bottle, let alone out of a brown paper bag. (There’s a bottle of Krug behind the counter, too, retailing at over five thousand dollars. This is a Woolworths, remember. It’s not Tetsuya’s.)
With Christmas coming up there are a lot of savings to be made. In additional to usual six– and twelve-​bottle percentage cuts, there are also specials on those aforementioned sparklings, though not, unfortunately, on that aforementioned champagne. Keep your eye out for the opaque black bottles of Spanish cava, to your right when you enter the store, which we bought for a recent Thanksgiving dinner party and all agreed was excellent.