Winner: Buster’s Liquors & Wines

“Wine is bottled poetry,” Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote. If that is the case, then Buster’s is a library with shelf after shelf of rhyme.

For more than 50 years, Buster’s Liquors & Wines has supplied libations to the Memphis area, and its vast selection and knowledgeable and friendly staff has helped secure its place in the hearts of customers.

According to Josh Hammond, grandson of store founder Romulus Morgan “Buster” Hammond Jr. and now co-owner along with his brother, Morgan, Buster’s recently trademarked the store’s new motto, “We have your spirit.”

191 S. Highland, 458-0929; 8 a.m. - 11 p.m. Monday - Saturday; closed Sunday. Visit bustersliquors.com.

Finalist: Kirby Wine & Liquors; Joe’s Wines & Liquor