Best Wine Shops in Chicago

19 of the 20 wine shops listed in Chicago publish their opening hours. The median one opens at 10 am and closes at 10 pm on a typical trading day.

Sunday is the day that catches visitors out: 17 venues in Chicago (89% of those with published hours) trade on Sunday, against 18 on Monday. 16 open seven days a week.

10 addresses stay open past 10 pm, which matters if you are buying after dinner rather than before it. Superior Wine & Liquor closes latest, at 12 am.

At the other end of the day, Warehouse Liquors opens earliest, at 7 am.

These hours come from each venue's own Google Business Profile as read in March 2026. They are regular hours: public holidays, August closures and harvest-season changes are not reflected, so call ahead for a specific date.

The 20 rated wine shops in Chicago carry 5,826 reviews between them. The mean rating is 4.46 out of 5 and the median is 4.5, and 13 venues hold 4.5 or better — 65% of the list.

Burnham Liquors carries the highest rating with a review base large enough to mean something: 4.8 from 1,144 reviews. Binny's Beverage Depot - Downtown is the most reviewed address in Chicago, at 1,866.

A five-star average is worth less than it looks on a venue with a dozen reviews, which is why the ranking above is sorted by rating and review volume together rather than by rating alone. The rating also measures the visit, not the cellar: service, queueing and the state of the room all land in the same number as the wine selection. It is a starting filter, not a verdict on what is on the shelf.

Price level is published for 3 of the 20 wine shops in Chicago, and it splits as follows: 3 moderate (100%). Google's price level is a four-step band reported by the venue and by visitors, not a price list, so it says where an address sits relative to its neighbours rather than what a bottle costs.

The specialisations that recur most often in Chicago are Delivery (1), Tasting Events (1), Local Wines (1), Fine Wine (1). Filtering the list above by one of those is usually a faster route to the right shop than sorting by rating.

Chicago accounts for 20 of the 262 wine shops we list across United States, spread over 15 cities.

Sunday trading is the clearest local difference: 89% of venues in Chicago open on Sunday against 68% nationally, 21 points higher.

Both columns are computed from the same rows that build these pages, so the national figure moves whenever a city's listing does.

Other wine venues in Chicago: 19 wine bars, 7 wine restaurants, 4 wineries and tasting rooms. In a city with a thin specialist trade, the restaurant list is often where the interesting bottles actually are.

The nearest larger listings in United States are Charlotte (20), Columbus (20), Fort Worth (20), Jacksonville (20), San Jose (20). Each is a separate page with its own hours, ratings and map.

Chicago has 20 wine shops on this list, averaging 4.46 out of 5 across 5,826 reviews. The median address opens at 10 am and closes at 10 pm; 17 of the 19 with published hours open on Sunday.

If you only have time for one stop, Burnham Liquors is the highest-rated address with a real review base (4.8 from 1,144).

Ratings, hours and price bands here come from public venue profiles read in March 2026; they describe how an address is reviewed, not how good its wine list is. Confirm hours before travelling for a specific bottle.