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| - It's hard to not feel like a wino at Sun Devil Liquors. But it's hard for me to not feel like a wino wherever I am. I digress.
It's not quite like drinking at Sportsmen's, where you feel like it's a wine bar posing as a wine store. Sun Devil feels more like a liquor store trying to be a liquor store, and oh yeah, we have a cozy little wine bar and outstanding wine selection downstairs. Don't get me wrong. I dig it. It's just different from all your typical wine bar/liquor stores...if there is a typical one.
Bonnie and I rolled up on a recent Friday night. At 10 pm, it was just us, another couple, the bartender and another couple who arrived when we left. After walking around this wine cellar (complete with a bar and two cocktail tables) and spotting a few very impressive California bottles including: Caymus, Cakebread and Silver Oak - (which are out of my league at this moment) we bellied up to the corner bar and had a couple of beers. I had some Salvadorean lager, which was very good and worth the chump change ($1.50).
We entertained ourselves with the usual:
witty banter,
stream-of-consciousness blather,
interpretive dance,
complimentary Dove chocolate morsels and a
horseshoe wrought iron puzzle.
That's how we roll.
This is a perfect place if you want quiet, low-key conversation in Mesa...but it might be a forgettable place if this were in a different part of Scottsdale or Phoenix.
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