Lowery Liquors & Wine Company

Omfg really rude

Lowery is a PHENOMENAL place to buy wine and spirits. Knowledgable staff? Check. Extensive selection of rums, mezals, chardonnays, or whatever else you can think of? Check. Beyond solid prices? Check plus. (I have purchased fantastic wines for under $ 15 here many times.) Really, you can’t get better than that. I am so lucky to have Lowery Liquors within a few blocks of my apartment.

Great selection and decent prices. What else do you want from a liquor store?

I just started getting into wine and I was just looking around at first. The gentleman who seemed to be the owner asked me if I needed any help so I told him what I was looking for. I knew immediately he would give me great suggestions from his aura. I wanted something rich, dry and under 20 $. Again, I just started drinking wine so I know absolutely nothing about wine variety. The man nailed it. He suggested a few bottles of cabernet sauvignon and he explained a few things to me. I grabbed 2 of them and both were delightful. At the first time visit, he turned me to a potential regular. I will get his recommendation every week from this point. I highly recommend asking the man what you are looking for!

I received personalized service and attention that was not overbearing. The owner was friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Great selection!

Favorite liquor store in the hood. More than decent wine collection and pricing to boot!
Have been coming here for a couple of years and have never had a bad experience.
Even if you’re not from Sunnyside it’s definitely worth the trip.

My family, and now myself, have been buying wine and liquor here since the 1960’s. This is a family business serving Queens nearing 80 years. If you get a chance, talk with the owner, very friendly and knows a lot about what he sells, unlike a lot of smaller stores. Occasionally there’s something they dont have, tastes of public change and they try and stay current.
I only just started buying higher end liquor. Had I known they carried the better scotches I would have bought them here. They just started getting in Talisker Storm and Jura Brooklyn not Jura Superstition. They carry McCallan, Oban, Laphroaig, Glenfiddich, Cragganmore, I believe Dalwhinnie and a few other good makes. Haven’t seen Scappa or Highland Park. Couldn’t get Bunnahabhain though they used to carry it.
Presently waiting for Yamazaki Whiskey to come in.
Their wine selection has grown and they carry more domestics, and widened international selection as more countries have been making better wines. So, each national selection is smaller. As I’ve been cooking with wine more frequently, I’m coming in more often. Just hop off the bus on the way home from work sometimes.

I like to come here to purchase my higher end scotches. They give pretty solid pricing and they’re right off the 7 train stop (40^th street)
Ask for JW Blue, Chivas Royal Salute, Glenlivet 21, Macallan 18 or 25
As you can tell I like to buy scotches that are old enough to buy themselves.
Even when purchasing slightly cheaper scotches (though very good) or harder to find scotches, they always seem to have them in stock with very competitive pricing, Oban 14, Cragganmore, Glenmorangie, Laphroaig, etc.
The only gripe I had was the lady on the phone wasn’t very clear. Not sure if it was a language barrier but I called again and got a different person. This person seemed to just want to rush me off the phone. Eventually I got Mo /​Moe? and he was very knowledgeable about inventory, pricing, etc.
So essentially I had to knock off a star because of the rudeness (as little or negligible as it may have seemed).
Outside of that, pricing is good, selection is awesome, and location is fair.

Extensive amount wines and liquors. I was looking for fish eye wine and couldn’t find it anywhere around me. I’m coming from bayside and this place had it in stock. They have a great selection like you would expect in a manhattan liquor store but significantly cheaper prices. Some of the wines are on sale too. The staff is pretty friendly. Even though it’s a bit out of the way from me, this place will have what you are looking for at great prices.

Great liquor store. Long time local business. Great inventory. Friend informed staff. Very organized. They’ll often have some wine sampling here and there and I can usually get some rare finds and holiday gift sets. Pretty much the go to reliable place in the hood. Want beer? Try next door.

I walk 7 blocks past the closest liqour store, just to buy from Lowery’s. Excellent staff and really good prices. Don’t waste your money somewhere else!

Large selection of wine and liquors with a very friendly and helpful staff. Moe always helps me find wine im looking for or suggests an alternative if they dont have what i want. I love you Moe! The prices are the lowest ive seen in Queens (i’m from Bayside where by comparison, the wine markups are a few bucks a bottle) and much cheaper than Manhattan. They also offer a discount if you buy wine in bulk. There have been a few wines i came here to look for that they did not carry, although to be fair, they were rare reds (from 1997) aaand the other two stores i stopped by in Sunnyside didnt carry them either (maybe one day ill get lucky). My go to wine and liquor store as its also a very convenient location — right off the 40^th & Lowery stop on the 7.

I love to buy wine here! They always have a good deal. But today the lady who works there as I have learn a manager just did not let me choose my wine. She humiliated me cause I was choosing wine from my list. She was keep staring at me that I was doing something wrong.
I’m so upset…
Thank you for the good service…

This place had an amazing selection of wine. I was pleasantly surprised that they had a Portugese Vino Verde, which is a delicious inexpensive wine I had several years ago. That made me so happy! Try it, it’s delicious!

Lowery Liquors & Wine is solid. Whatever I’ve been looking for, they have it.
Apple Jack? They’ve got it.
Some German wine that I not only can’t pronounce, but have completely forgotten its name? They’ve got it. (Gewürztraminer for future reference)
I don’t even live in the area anymore and I still come here. It’s Manhattan selection without the Manhattan prices. They’re not paying Manhattan rents so they can pass on the savings to you.
God… now I’m sounding like a Men’s Warehouse commercial… But you get the point.
Plus I don’t mind the trip. I can’t seem to stay out of Sunnyside anyway.

I’ve been shopping here for years! Great service, awesome prices! Staff is always helpful and knowledgeable!

This is a place that deserves its high Unilocal rating. They have such a huge variety of wines and liquors here from countries around the globe, and from all over the U.S. The value is great, and all the employees I’ve encountered were friendly and helpful.
I couldn’t believe a couple of the deals they had. Today they had enormous handles of Svedka vodka for less than $ 20 before tax. In a lot of wine shops, it’s hard to find a big and desirable selection of European wines for less than $ 15, but Lowery definitely has you covered in that department.

This place is a walk for me, but I still try to go here when buying alcohol. Great selection, great prices, and helpful staff.
I realize it is «just» a liquor store, but it is one of the gems in Sunnyside.

I went here based on the review on Unilocal, and its pretty much the closes place that had a good wine selection.
I really didn’t shop around too much, they had a bunch of Champagne Magnums which was what I was in the market for. They also had a decent selection of Prosecco & Cava.

A wine/​liquor store perfectly situated to serve the Sunnyside neighborhood and also stays open until late hours in the evening. The prices are also very reasonable across kinds of booze, regardless of whether you are a lover of wine, vodka, whiskey, etc. Until a Trader Joe’s decide to open a store in Queens, the value here is pretty hard to top.
Moreover, what truly resonates with this patron is the fact that the store carries an excellent selection of foreign wines and liquors that seem to be always on sale. Working for an Australian company in the US and having lived in the K-​Town area for several years, I have developed quite an affection for New Zealand and Aussie wines and Korean/​Japanese spirits (soju and sake). At Lowery’s, there is actually a solid selection representing all these regions. How much more at home can one feel?