Vintage Berkeley - Elmwood

The wines are all hand picked and are delicious. The wine club is a great value as well. Love the comedy shows they do

Un-pretentious, great value, amazing selection. Most options are less than ~$30. Exactly what you want in a neighborhood wine shop!

Fantastic wine shop. We went here to buy all the wines we tried on the Elmwood Wine Walk! My goodness- what an amazing store. What interesting and affordable wines!! We love Vinho verde from Portugal- and we tries a superb one on our wine walk. Also loved the small producers this place carries! I can't wait to go back. We bought several delicious wines I can't wait to drink.

Vintage Berkeley is a step up from buying wines from Whole Foods, Cost plus, BevMo. Vintage, like K & L, are wine merchants, specializing in sourcing unique, small lot wines. of course, pricing is higher. buys: Selva Della Rocca, 2016 rose wine (11)-imported Italian wine, 12.5% alcvery smooth, no harshnessgoes good with veggies, seafood, etc. i'm toldwine notes:-not fascinated with high end wines-chardonnay, cabernet sav are no no's-prefer merlot, pinot noir, riesling, sauvingnon blanc....mid range pricing....-many wines here near 20ish.

Dan Polsby and the team at Vintage Berkeley take such good care of our team and go above and beyond time after time! We have hosted three virtual wine tasting events for our team at Practus, LLP, a virtual law firm. We have 50 attorneys and staff spread all over the U.S. and Dan has managed every part of our event seamlessly from helping to make fantastic wine selections to securing wonderful speakers from the different vineyards. He has done a great job locating hard-to-find Argentinian wine and shipping it to our team. Even the wine grower himself was impressed that Dan was able to find 50 bottles of his wine for a U.S. event! And then he goes above and beyond, by sending out interesting bios, backstories, factoids about the wine, the grapes, the soil, the region, the process, so we are all well informed before our events and can make the most of our time with the representatives from each vineyard. In short, Dan is the man, and I highly recommend Vintage Berkeley for not only personal wine selections, but company events, too!

A little expensive compared to your typical liquor store or supermarket wine aisle but you can't really go wrong here. Knowledgeable staff who are happy to help and recommend wines and some of the most unique bottles you'll find in one place. I've been here three times and each time have thoroughly enjoyed what I've walked away (with the exception of one bottle which, somewhat unfortunately, my floor got to enjoy). Also, don't forget the praise you'll get from whomever you share your wine with :).

Really great little shop to pick up wine for a dinner party (or to have at home :)). The employees are knowledgeable about the different wines and always offer to make recommendations based on whatever you're looking for. I think they also offer tastings on certain nights!Note that this wine shop is a bit on the pricier end (the least expensive wine is maybe $15?) but it's also really convenient if you're in the area and don't feel like going to a grocery or liquor store.

Gayle was making a spicy chicken stew one night and we needed a nice wine for our meal. We stopped in (on the way back from our movie) and had a fun time looking over a very nice selection of wines under $25 and chatting with who was probably one of the owners. We got some great advice. We ended up with a nice bottle of Argentinian Chardonnay and one very tasty sparkling wine that went really well with our dinner. And the total bill was only ~$20. And both wines (over 2 meals including leftovers) went really well Gayle's very delicious and healthy dish.This is one of 3 stores that are owned by the same folks. I have shopped at their Solano Cellars (Albany) location for years and they also have an attractive place within the old PG&E Pump House on Vine in Berkeley (across from the original Peet's). Vintage Berkeley has done a nice job with this space, although I really do miss the old hardware store that used to be in this building. There also seems to be an embarrassment of riches regarding wine shops these days. Farmstead in Alameda and Montclair also has a great selection of wines and great service.

If tasked with bringing wine to a dinner party, let Vintage Berkeley be your tastemaker. I had received a missive from the host that said we were having lamb and to bring something appropriate. I went to text my oenophile friend for a recommendation but my phone was on the fritz. Eff technology. Was picked up by another guest who recommended VB, and he stepped on the gas and blew two red lights to get there before closing at eight o'clock on a Saturday night. Not my idea.I ran in while Basil the maniac circled the block, and had just made it in time. I told the shopkeeper of our exploits and he chuckled and said next time to just call ahead and he'll stay open for us. He recommended a rioja to be paired with the lamb, and it was perfect and only $20. Went back yesterday for a less rushed visit, and saw that most wines are under $25, and that the shop has a great diversity of wines, so not only are France, Italy, and California represented, but South American, Spanish, South African, and Slovenian wines are on the scene too. They also offer in-store wine tastings, so perhaps while us east bayers are impatiently awaiting a CM to arrive on a chariot and entertain us, we can converge here and be orphans together!

I love this wine shop so much that I no longer even know how to shop for wine anywhere else!This is the perfect wine shop for when you want to buy wine in the $15+ range for any occasion. They have a huge selection of imported and domestic wines ranging from the more traditional to the more unique. While the shop has tasting notes on all their bottles that make it much easier to shop for wine yourself without memorizing regional varieties and years, the real move is to walk straight up to one of the workers and describe what you want. Everyone who works here is DEEPLY knowledgable about wines, genuinely excited to share recommendations, and super unpretentious about finding you the right bottle for the day. I've walked up with the whole spectrum of 'we're doing a treat yourself miso cod today, so what are your more interesting bottles in the $30-40 range' (went with this french white with sesame notes and a super full bodied, buttery white), to 'it's a cheeseboard pizza kinda day, so something simple in the $15-20 range' (went with a 'salty' volcanic soil Italian white), to 'tbh, I'm just planning to get wine tipsy this afternoon, but in a classy kinda way so what are your cheaper reds' (went some simple, fruity red). I just walked through the shop with the task of finding a ~$20 bottle to pair with the ragu and papardelle that a friend is making tonight and was recommended a more traditional Chianti with deeper cherry and spice notes or a lighter, more modern biodynamic red with brighter fruit notes (went with the Chianti). This shop has become the only place where I'll spend a decent bit of money on wine because EVERY SINGLE recommendation I've ever got has been perfect in ways that have changed the way that I think of drinking wine. And every single interaction that I've had with any of the folks who work here has been super fun.The only downside of this shop is that it'll make you snobbier about the wine that you drink. But that's what being old is for anyway, so go buy some wine here!