Wines fill the shelves Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at Chattanooga Wine and Spirits.With wine finally for sale in Tennessee grocery stores, you might think this would be a bad time to open a new liquor store in Chattanooga.
Chris Ross disagrees.
“It’s a wonderful time to open up a liquor store,” said Ross, the general manager of Chattanooga Wine and Spirits, which just opened at 6804 Shallowford Road.
Chattanooga Wine and Spirits can beat supermarkets, he said, because it will offer a wider selection of liquors, wines and beers, including 24 beers on tap to fill growlers. The store also will stock cigars in a humidor and offer tastings on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays of beer, wine and liquor.
“This will be the largest liquor store in Chattanooga, pretty darn sure,” Ross said of the new 11,980-square-foot building near Rain Thai Bistro and the Champy’s Chicken that recently opened near the intersection of Lee Highway and Shallowford Road.