N. Ireland Off-Licences

[rshd301]

Any advice on good off-licences in the north (particulary Belfast). I know of Fairley's in Coleraine, The Lighthouse in Whiteabbey and the Grapevine in Belfast. Are there any others with a good selection of Irish or Scotch that anyone's aware of?

Thanks,

Neil

[rathbeggan]

I don't know any off licences with a great range of whisk(e)y. Sainsburys has a reasonable whisk(e)y range, including an own brand Irish single malt made by Cooley.

Direct Wine Shipments in Belfast is the best off licence in the North that I know. Terrific range of wine.

Nicholsons in Downpatrick is also good.

Long's supermarket in Derry, now a SuperValu, sometimes gets bottles from Gordon and McPhail, but I don't know if they've got any lately. Weirdly enough, I've seen G&M bottlings in a small off licence in Lisnaskea.

Winemark and Curleys are the biggest local off licence chains but I haven't ever seen a great range of whiskeys in them. Winemark in the Buttercrane, Newry, had Old Comber in the 90s, for £30, but foolishly I didn't buy it...

[jcskinner]

+1 on Direct Wine Shipments.
Best value I've ever found up there, with the exception of the time an offie on the Antrim Road priced up Bush 16 at £27 and got cleaned out of eight bottles by me.

[IGG]

Some interesting stuff in Vineyard on the Ormeau Road.

[IrishWhiskeyChaser]

Some interesting stuff in Vineyard on the Ormeau Road.

Thanks for posting and many warm welcomes IGG

[damienmcguigan]

There are a few Drink shops in university area that usually do some good stuff

[cathach]

have you tried jnwine.com at all? They're a fairly big operation I think. Crossgar, Co.Down