Monday 6th of December 2010 09:42:43 AM

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88 West Gartner Road location, in shopping center next to Trader Joe's, not the same one listed here.

Stopped in here today, to survey the walk-in beer cooler. The shop is located in a shopping center with 2 grocery stores, and 2 wine shops. The shop used to be "Cabernet & Co." which moved out in 2008. Peterson is the new name, and they have 3 locations in the area.

Beer was in the rear of the store, in a walk in cooler on the right. Some wine rack shelving in front of the windowed cooler, with about 10 varieties of bombers stacked horizontally.

The walk-in had a pretty good selection, nothing crazy really. Founders Centennial, Metro Flywheel, 2 Bros Cane & Ebel, BCB(V)S/Sofie/Matilda, Bells, GLBC, Ska Modus Hoperandi & Euphoria, and random imports, the best were Weihenstephaner, Chimay, & Duvel.

Cashier was nice, and cleared up the history of the place as "Cabernet & Co." Better selection than TJ's next door, but not overly extensive in the scheme of things.

Thursday 14th of October 2010 12:20:49 PM

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This is a small wine store with a less than average beer selection. Like the last reviewer said, its only about 5% craft beer, I would even go lower than that. The back coolers were all light beers except for your expect GI 312, leinies, or new belgium. The small shelf adjacent to the coolers had one 4pk of GI bourbon county stout and a 4pk of matilda. THATS IT. I wouldn't even go here if I lived across the street. Drive the extra 5 miles down to Binny's Plainfield where you will find yourself staying for longer than 2 minutes. The girl working the register was cute and wanted to help but I told her that I was looking for some hard to find beer. She notified me that their other Naperville location was larger and had walk in coolers but I doubt its much better.

Sunday 26th of August 2007 07:42:08 PM

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I hadn't heard of this one before... it's really new. And for the sake of arguement, it's a wine store with some beers.

The beer selection, is, well... scattered. There's 8 cold doors and about 4 are for craft beers, there's also half of a stand adjacent to the coolers with beer on it... that being said, the beer selection is onesy/twosey of different brands. One or two goose, one flying dog, in another cooler another goose, some leinies. It was really a smattering of conservative tastes and craft beer, not one full line... (sans the shelf adjacent to the beer which had matilda, pere jaques, and demolition...) THAT being said, this is a place where if you were in the area and the distance was shorter to here, than the binny's naperville... This would be an in the clutch beer store.

It's 90% wine, 10% beer, 5% craft.... a really nice looking wine shoppe, but a less than average wine shop with beer.

Service was just okay...