Costa Mesa Wine and Spirits

Not a reputable business. I would recommend staying away from this place and patronizing another liquor store. There’s a decent one in the same parking lot as The Camp.
If you absolutely gotta go here – just don’t let the cashier take your card to swipe it for you. They could swipe it twice and you’ll get dinged twice on your bank account.*
This happened to me, and even after showing the owner («Eddie») the transactions in my bank account he wouldn’t recredit the extra charge back to my bank account.
Oh well, lesson learned. Avoid this place, or eyeball your credit card when they run it through the device.
*** This is getting into speculative territory, but I’m assuming they’re doing something fishy with their card readers or hid one of the receipt printers in a sound-​proof drawer. I dunno. I just know it’s odd that they seem to prefer to slide your card for you. Take this with a grain of salt.

If I could give this place a zero star I would. Not only do they mandate not being able to park outside of their store for the much more purposeful establishments in the plaza, but the time I go in to buy a bottle of tea, I received one of the worst instances of customer service in my entire life. I bought a bottle of tea, 2 juices, and an energy drink. I was refused a bag because I happened to have a very basic drawstring napsack and when I went to put away my tea — the tea bottle slipped out of my hand (it was a rainy, cold night) and broke on the floor. I apologize profusely and immediately tried to bend to pick up the glass and the first thing out of the cashier’s mouth was «you can’t have another one» — RUDE.
Don’t give these jerks your money. Go someplace else and hopefully they’ll go out of business and open this plaza up for more Kitakata Ramen. It’s worth any additional mileage to go and buy liquor from someone else.

The wine selection is awesome, never disappointed. Going there again today in fact for a hard to find wine. Never close!

Great walk in beer fridge (plus all the standards), cigar humidor, and larger than most wine selection. Lots of vodka to chose from, no Reyka sadly but plenty others. All that’s needed is a bigger scotch and fine whiskey.

They have a beer fridge. A WALK-​IN FRIDGE DEDICATED TO CRAFT BEERS. For such a small shop, I applaud them for that. I walked into it out of curiosity and it wasn’t too cold, but I was wearing two jackets cause the nights have been super chilly lately. Either way, it can fit at most two people at a time, maybe three, but that would be a tight fit. Great selection and bottles from top to bottom. Legit. I spent way too much time talking about this beer fridge.
The selection for spirits and wine is a pretty decent variety too. The owner really takes pride in his collection and if you’re a regular, he’s a pretty cool guy to talk to. I’m not the regular one here, but my brother stops in weekly for his beer or wine treat. I accompany him a few times, but I have yet to commit to purchasing a bottle of bourbon to start my collection. I’ll have to update when I do.
There’s about 3 – 5 parking spaces dedicated to the store, which makes it easy to hop in and out without the hassle of trying to find parking. This plaza is infamous for lack of spaces, but there’s always open spaces at the extended stay around the corner. Just park and walk over if you plan on dining in the area.

This is the best liquor store in costa mesa California period. Fully stocked and ready to serve me every time with a wide selection of fine wines, cigars and snacks.

One of the worst establishments that I’ve ever had the displeasure to PARK at. This review is specifically in regards to the parking regulations and the unscrupulous actions of the owner. This is a busy stretch of property, there are a few exclusive restaurants on this piece of land, it’s prime real estate to say the least, and to make matters worse, parking is horrendous. There are about 25 parking spots for 10 – 15 different businesses. Yes, there were signs that stated the parking spots were specifically for customers of the liquor store. However, as life is, and you’re in the midst of chaos and lost in the moment, most are surely to overlook the signs and go abour their business– as we did. As we wanted to check out one of the restaurants off the corner, we initially parked in front of the liquor store. Luckily, I stayed in the car. After no more than 5 minutes, here’s the owner standing outside his establishment, arms crossed, with a shit-​eating grin from ear to ear. Didn’t know what is was about, went about my business. He left went into the store. Suddenly instincts kicked in. He had obviously called a tow truck. What really drove me was the fact this «man» –whom cowardly hid in his store to call and get our car towed and then proceeded to stand in front his store & seemingly square off with our car, did not have the decency nor heart to inform us about the parking beforehand. I don’t care what the competition is from other businesses, you DON’T treat people like that. Maybe, if the owner learned a thing or two, he might be bring in more profit.
SO BEWARE OF PARKING IN FRONT OF THEIR STORE UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR CAR TOWED.
Thankfully, we left before the truck got there. From now on, I’ll make sure to go in before hand, drop a dime, and be on my way. Though in all honesty, this store isn’t worth a penny nor a second of my time.

For a pretty tiny store this place packs a punch! Cigar humidor, your usual liquor selection, and just what I came for… a wall full of fine craft beer!
The owner knows his stuff and based off of what I picked made some other recommendations that were exactly the other few beers I was looking at.
The only thing I could recommend to step it up another notch would be to put beer advocate or ratebeer ratings on some of the heavy hitters. Its not *that* difficult to look something up on my phone, but it makes it much easier to gravitate toward a $ 15 six pack when its got a beeradvocate score of 100 stamped right next to the price.

For being a little wine and spirit shop this place has a decent size walk in Humidor. They have your standard liquor store offerings sodas, snacks, nick nacks, and energy drinks. But they also have a large selection of wines and hard booze. For me the Humidor is where its at. Local, fair pricing, and a pretty decent selection of cigars. Cigars range from the $ 2.00 for one to $ 40 depending on your taste. I picked up 2 Cohibas for $ 20 piece. Not bad. Ill take that price and the covenant and helpful service over having to drive to some strange smoke shop.
Store workers that I have encountered have all been relatively knowledgeable about the cigars so that helps too.