BC Liquor Store

A golden hair lady with small eyes is quite weird, the attitude is like a little drunk. When she made a mistake about price, she kept saying «no, no, no. I won’t.»

For UBC, this is a pretty good liquor store. There is very little that is over $ 30 in the store, which means it caters well to students.
I was quite pleased with the breadth of items. They had the popular J Lohr Cabernets and the cheap Lindeman Shiraz and whatnot, but they also had some real QPR (quality price ratio) gems like Chapoutier Bila-​Haut Red and White, Besllum, and Louis Latour Bordeaux. Overall, I would say that this store would help serve as an excellent place for people to go and not get concerned about prices while being able to pick up a good breadth of wines to get one’s palate accustomed to.
The one thing I wondered about was the staff. Seriously, when the «liquor specialist» doesn’t know anything about the wines, and even what 2011 was like for most wines in France compared to 2010 or 2009 (for the record, apparently the latter two are supposed to be «super-​years» for anything coming from there whilst 2011 was very mixed) and was like «it seems like you know more than me!» without saying ANYTHING about what he thought of wines from France or Spain, you’re basically better off taking a Smartphone and plugging in the names if you wanted.
Cute store that wasn’t busy on a Saturday night, though, so you can’t be bitter. That’s for John Nunziata.

This is a rather small store when I compare it to others. Then again, this is out close to the main campus, and likely caters to students that live on campus.
The selection is thinner than the largers stores, with some of the premium priced alcohol being left out, but not entirely. They do have some high end Scotch and Champagne that is in a locked glass cabinet.
I doubt very many students will be buying this type of stuff.
Other than that, the standard cheap beer, spirits, and run of the mill wines are here. If you’re looking for fancier wine, you’re better off going to Liberty Wine Merchants just outside of the UBC Gates on 10^th Ave.

Decent store size selection, especially considering the location (but nothing compared to Oakridge). They also have pretty good hours. I actually prefer this store to my local yaletown store because that one is TINY. Staff here have always been friendly and although there’s not much immediate nearby parking it’s really convenient to be able to pop in here on the way home from school (hopefully that doesn’t make me sound like too much of an awful student).
It’s also usually pretty empty, although I’m sure it’s super busy on weekend evenings when everyone who lives on campus who forgot to stop by earlier in the week is loading up for the weekend.
Also a surprisingly decent wine selection for a «student» liquor store where all you’d expect is cheap vodka and Palm Bay. They do feature wines and sales just like other bc liquor stores.
All in all, I’m quite happy this location of BC liquor exists!