Gordon’s Fine Wines & Liquors

I will never walk in this store again.
Dion’s, Gordon’s on Moody a number of other better options where the staff treat you like a patron of the store if you come in regularly.
I have watched a cashier NOT ID «certain» individuals — while repeatedly asking for mine despite the fact that I am in here a few times a week restocking my household.
I asked about it point blank and was told by the young lady with blue lips «You recognize me I don’t recognize you» despite the fact I was not speaking to her.
Mmmkay well I work with the public also? And I recognize anyone who spends hundreds of dollars in my spot monthly. So your appearance coupled with your attitude is why you work in a liquor store and you can keep your two cents, I don’t need it.
Terrible customer service, incredibly, routinely rude — its culture in this store.
All good. They won’t miss my patronage and I won’t miss their attitudes but this is an FYI to anyone who hopes to have good feelings when they hand over their cash in an establishment.
Take your business up the street. This place is always woefully understocked for the number of staffers they have running around in the aisles crowding up the place with their stank faces.
I’m not kidding — step in and you’ll see what I mean.
Oh and this business shares their parking lot with an Asian Massage Parlor jack shack so you’ll be competing for parking with the hookers and johns next door.

I couldn’t be happier to have Gordon’s as my local wine and liquor store! Their staff is extremely knowledgable and always willing to offer suggestions. This has come in handy many times when I’m making a quick purchase on the way to a game, dinner party, or a family event.
Gordon’s also has a great selection, with options that range from affordable (less than $ 10– they sell single beers FYI) to top of the shelf ($ 100+). Likewise Gordon’s has frequent tastings and events to help you find your new favorite drink! If you want good prices, personalized service, and a great selection make sure to stop here.
Pro tip: make sure you bring your ID because they ID almost everyone regardless of how old they look

Open till 11, great selection, offered help, very organized and clean. Open till 11 though was the big one.

A place to get alcohol. A few sales here and there to keep me coming back. What I enjoy are wine and whiskey tasting events they hold at their stores.

I couldn’t be happier to have Gordon’s as my local wine and liquor store! Their staff is extremely knowledgable and always willing to offer suggestions which has come in handy many times for a quick purchase on the way to a game, dinner party, or a family event.
Gordon’s has a great selection, with options that range from affordable (less than $ 10– they sell single beers FYI) to top of the shelf ($ 100+). Gordon’s also has frequent tastings and events to help you find your new favorite drink! If you want good prices, personalized service, and a great selection make sure to stop here.
Pro tip: make sure you bring your ID because they ID almost everyone regardless of appearance

Not a very good beer selection for a store that size. Their beer coolers can’t possibly be colder than 45 degrees. Warm beer is gross.

If you are a Scotch person check out the selection at Gordon’s. Their selection is crazy and their Scotch experts are friendly and knowledgeable.
Great wine and beer selection too — but for me it’s all about the Scotch. Thanks Gordon’s.

Used Gordon’s Catering for the alcohol supplier at my wedding. Communication with Leslie, the catering director, was abysmal. She really only wants to communicate via phone which I found inconvenient and then there wasn’t really a written paper trail of what we requested. We ran out of bourbon at our reception even though one of the signature drinks called for bourbon — huge disappointment.
She was outright rude to me at one point in the planning saying the number of beers we were requesting was ridiculous and abnormal. She said this repeatedly even after I reminded (because she already knew this) her that we were having a beer tasting of 12 beers at our cocktail hour PLUS other beers for the reception. We didn’t want to serve the beer from the cocktail hour at the wedding because they were all 8% or more — don’t want people getting tanked at the wedding. She also said that my excel spreadsheet of the beers we wanted which was organized by beer type, beer name, brewery, ABV and beer advocate score was «confusing.» Huh?
In the end I think she was super overwhelmed with all the catering requests Gordon’s handles and should probably hire more staff to help her. It doesn’t excuse the poor communication and rude behavior but helps to explain it.

It’s ok for average joes with what I suppose limitless selection of Budweiser in any shape and form. I drove to the store in Waltham to pick up a bottle of wine that they advertised online as in stock. Neither myself nor the store workers could actually locate it after what seemed like thorough search to me (given the time it took) Not a problem, although for troubles I could have at least be asked for perhaps free tasting, but that’s fine. They said they would back order the wine and I should comeback next week and pick it up. I asked for a box and left contact info. I haven’t heard anything since. So, not your typical situation but yet deserves 3 star rating.

If you have an Arizona ID, don’t even bother with Gordon’s. They won’t accept it. Come back with your passport.

Wide variety of wines and an exotic selection of liquors. Staff seems knowledgeable too. Prices seem to be average but they do have specials which is nice.
There is a private parking lot next to store which is great considering it can be difficult to get parking in this area.

Customer service leave something to be seriously desired.
Recently moved to Waltham from Harvard Square. I’d been going to the same liquor store for 6+ years and I admit — I was spoiled. I got very used to the shopkeeper greeting me like an old friend, chatting with me, giving me suggestions etc.
In the month that I have lived in this neighborhood I have visited this Gordon’s several times and my experience has ranged from being welcomed to being virtually ignored until checkout, being treated like I was annoying for asking for a suggestion on an ingredient in a cocktail to a girl running from behind the counter to walk me to my destination to make sure I found what I wanted.
Inconsistent.
Im writing this review today because honestly I felt like a vagrant when I left this afternoon– totally insulted by a staffer who has checked me out no less than half a dozen times, tried to ID me, I tried to make conversation with her and she acted like I was getting on her nerves. Basically her behavior today is going to cause me to be on guard every time I enter the store from now on and its going to cause me to reroute my shoppping to try and avoid Gordon’s and go to another liquor store. Gordon’s just doesn’t give me good feelings. Its overpriced, its selection is pretty good — but if you don’t feel good about shopping there whats the point?
Oh on weekends go in at your own risk because they’re playing hardcore rap and being insane.
This location clearly thinks its the only game in town in Waltham and they act accordingly.

5 star rating alone on their wine selection! Larger than Marty’s in Newton and the prices are a little cheaper as well.
One of the best buys I got here was Duckhorn Cabernet Sauvignon for $ 55! Normally this wine runs about $ 70+ and I was so excited to see that they had a special deal. Gordon’s has a great range of low/​med/​high wines and are constantly changing their inventory. They are more than happy to order you wine if you do not find it in the store.
Their selection of beer and hard alcohol is also very good here. They do carry a lot of beer that is hard to find, and their variety of hard alcohol is outstanding. This location also does carry a few snacks, cheese spreads and other specialty goodies at the front by the cash register. They also have non-​alcoholic drinks (for when you are hungover and out buying more alcohol) and mixers for sale as well.
Staff is friendly but not as friendly as their Moody St location. Parking can be tough, just make sure you are aware that the entry/​exits in the parking lot are one way. It can get very busy here!
Make sure you check out the Gordon’s website as they have tastings all of the time.

I am only giving them 2 stars and that is only because of the excellent selection of beers on the singles rack; love getting to try new beers without buying an entire 6 pack and finding out, you don’t like it. Otherwise, I almost hate going in there, they are rude, snobby, unfriendly and unless you are there for some fine wines, you are going to get ignored. I understand that this particular location caters to a different crowd, really, I get that (I grew up with a wine cellar). However, I am still a paying customer… and no matter what I am purchasing I deserve to be treated with respect. I can walk to this location, but sometimes I will get in my car and drive to the Moody Street location, just so I don’t have to deal with the people that work there. Remember Mr. Gordon, customer is king!

Amazing craft beers, locally made and good sale prices. I like giving my hard earned money to these nice people in exchange for delicious seasonal booze. They frequently hold tastings and carry a lot of harder to find items.

I have never been so insulted in my life. I’m going to school in Albany, New York but originally from Arizona so I have an Arizona license. When I tried to buy whiskey for a friend, the store employees not only rudely accused me of using a fake ID, but attempted to confiscate it and call the police.
I’m 22, turning 23 next year and if any Arizonans are out there they know that our licenses don’t expire for 50-​so years. I hope this store goes out of business!

Arguably the best, or at least one of the best liquor /​wine stores in the Boston area.
Decent amount of parking, including on the street (if you need). Ken is super-​friendly and really nice. They are usually at the Boston Wine Expo.
Pricing is okay, and if you go to one of their events, sometimes they give you little deals like 20% off the wines or some kind of sale on things you drink at the class.
They have a great selection on a lot of different things and the store is pretty well-​laid out. They also sell some cheese and crackers in store (near the check out).
Their culinary center also has some great classes that fill up very fast. We loved the «beer and barbeque» and «wine and cheeses of France» and other such classes. They partner with a lot of local restaurants and places like Formaggio’s Kitchen in Cambridge and the classes are great — very educational. We have to check out their Burgundy evening.

This review is specifically about Gordon’s Beverage Catering service for special events, and NOT about the store itself. Gordon’s Beverage Catering was recommended by multiple bartending services and catering services.
I spent 6 months planning a fairly large event, and every vendor I used did an amazing job except for Gordon’s.
First, the good:
They were easy to deal with on the phone, and they deliver right to your event and pick up the unused items after so you can be credit what was not used. They are a bit old-​fashioned. I’m not convinced they’ve heard of email, or sending paperwork or a confirmation or anything of that sort. Everything was done over the phone and verbally agreed on, which is fine, but not what I’m used to.
Now, the bad:
They DID NOT deliver one of the key items we ordered, did not contact me in any way to let me know it wasn’t going to be delivered, and seemed completely surprised after the fact when I called to inform them we did not get everything we ordered. When I asked them after the fact what happened, the response was «I don’t know.» Unfortunately, the item not delivered was one of the main beers that the majority of people at the party would have wanted.
I personally don’t think I would use Gordon’s again for beverage catering, and I would not recommend them to someone looking for a beverage catering service.
EDIT: This is apparently the way they do business and didn’t happen only to me. See John T’s review of their catering service below. I wish I had researched them more beforehand. DON’T LET GORDON’S HANDLE YOUR DRINK CATERING!

I went out there, which is only my second trip to Waltham in a decade of living in Boston (really, there’s no call to head out there), because I needed a decent selection of wine that was kosher for Passover, and preferably mevushal. I’m a shiksa, so I have no knowledge of what I was going for, but I was invited to a seder and told to bring wine.
After checking three separate shops, and finding that The Butcherie in Brookline was closed for the holiday, I Googled frantically on my phone (sundown was approaching) and found that Gordon’s was said to have an excellent selection of kosher wine. I headed out Waltham way and thought, during the half hour drive, that it better be good.
It was! It had a very good selection of non-​Manischewitz wine for Passover, including some very well-​ranked wines that were mention on The New York Times, Wine Spectator, and a few other writeups I was accessing by telephone. I ended up buying two bottles, a sauvignon blanc and a moscato, and a half-​case of mevushal champagne. I was very pleased with the selection and service.
I have no reason to go back, most likely — goyim don’t keep kosher — but I will happily recommend it for that particular purpose.

Love their champagne and caviar class. thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. double deliciousness and ample of samples. ;)

I love Gordon’s! They have everything!
There’s also about a dozen guys that all look the same there for your viewing pleas *ahem* to help you find what you’re looking for. Seriously. They’re everywhere. Every time you think «ok, it’s a Wednesday night and I just had six dudes helping me so I must have seen them all», another one pops up asking to carry your box of wine for you.
The prices are about the same as everywhere else. You pretty much come here for the convenience and wide selection. Whether you’re looking for your run of the mill bottle of wine or a specialty liquor, they’ll have it.

Gordon’s Fine Wines & Liquors is the large of two locations they have in the area and is an absolutely outstanding liquor store which has become my go-​to long before I moved to Waltham. The store is big and very well organized and features an incredible craft beer selection — one of the best in the Boston area for that matter. They also have all kinds of domestic and imported wines and a gigantic tasting bar in the back that could rival with any regular bar’s counter.
The prices are good, the service is good and once in a while, they also do have some rare craft beers that they are willing to give out if you inquire including Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout. Now if they can get me some Pappy Van Winkle and some Kentucky Breakfast Stout, I’ll be in heaven… but for now I’ll settle with everything else that they have.
The prices are good, there’s plenty of parking in their lot and their hours are good as well. Definitely the best place to get spirits, beer and wine in Waltham.
Oh and did I mention that they also other services as well? They have all kinds of cooking classes including some for wine pairings, culinary classes and even wine education. I’ll be checking it out soon and can’t wait!