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Your A-List: Best Liquor Store
Austin has ordered another shot of Spec’s. The Houston-based beverage giant, only a recent transplant to Central Texas, already won the Your A-List vote for Best Beer and Wine Selection. Now, with 41 percent of the tally, it grabs Best Liquor Store as well.
Why? One possible reason: encyclopedic stock. We recently (and randomly) tested Spec’s selections against a California discount chain, BevMo, and found that the Texas company competed in almost every category, except for West Coast regional specialties.
Ranking second on Your A-List was the homegrown Twin Liquors, with more than 50 stores and 28 percent of the vote. The deliciously named Whip-In took third with 16 percent.
Interestingly, Avery Fine Wine & Spirits drew 85 write-ins, which puts them in fourth place, ahead of five other seeded picks. (“Best of” contests like this thrive on campaigns.)
Wiggy’s and Reuben’s (the latter owned by Twin) both took 6 percent. Centennial, Spirits and Warehouse Liquors snuck onto the list with less than 2 percent apiece.
Other write-ins: Best Liquor, Costco, Davenport Wines and Spirits, Favorite Liquor, Grape Vine Market, King’s and Travis Heights Beverage World.
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