Ace Beverage Fine Wines and Spirits

Ace is our go-to for beverages for all of our catering needs! They have a great selection of spirits, beers, and wines. We appreciate that they can work within our client's budgets. Alex is always very helpful and very responsive. Would highly recommend!

We love going to Ace Beverage for our wine and spirits! They have such a great selection and the staff is very helpful with recommendations.

We used Ace Beverage for our wedding at the recommendation of our caterer, and we're so happy we did. Alina's wine recommendations were fantastic, including my favorite Sauvignon Blanc I've ever had. We have some family and friends who seriously know their wine, and even they were impressed. The whole process was smooth, and it's great that Ace will buy back leftover alcohol. Of course, we had to keep some of the leftover bottles for personal use. :) Thanks, Alina!

Great help, not overselling, I asked for wine with pizza and he offered a cheaper portugese blend wine which was perfect!!! They could improve their beer selection, I can help!😉

Ace did the alcohol at our wedding and it was completely hassle-free - emailed them with a headcount, suggested a few refinements and additions, put down a deposit, and paid for what got used night of. They coordinated with our planner/caterer to completely handle pick up and dropoff, and we didn't even have to think about it day-of. Strongly recommend doing this and leaving it to the professionals instead of giving yourself the work of a few Costco trips or something.

Thank you to Ace Beverage for providing such great service! They took so much of the stress out of my wedding planning experience. They were able to tell us exactly how much liquor we would need based on our headcount, delivered the bottles to the venue, retrieved them, and sent us a credit for what we didn't use very promptly. Alina was very easy to work with and the office manager, Will, sent us a kind message after we used their services. Their prices were fair and we received great customer service. I would recommend Ace Beverage to anyone without hesitation!

Ace handled the alcohol for my wedding a couple of years ago and I've been a regular customer ever since. Alex and his team are knowledgeable, friendly, and really go out of their way for their customers. And Alex is consistently keeping tabs on new and interesting products to hit the market. I think Ace has the best selection of spirits in the DC area and the offerings are priced reasonably. I could not recommend Ace more enthusiastically.

I made the trip to Ace from Alexandria for the first time yesterday, and it was well worth the 25 minute drive. Their selection is excellent, prices are competitive, and it was great to finally be able to fill in some gaps in my collection with bottles I've been wanting, but VA's ABC stores don't carry. If you're a Tikiphile in NoVA, do yourself a favor and check out Ace. And thank you to the dude who helped me by offering to take my armload of bottles to the register. Your help and humor were appreciated. I'm sorry I didn't catch your name, friend!

Ace Beverage's service is phenomenal and made our lives so easy when working with them! They took care of everything for our wedding, from estimating a reasonable amount and variation of alcohol, to delivering everything in a timely manner to our venue, to even picking up the leftover alcohol after the wedding. We did not have to worry about a thing! So glad we chose Ace, and we would highly recommend them for any event beverage needs!

ACE was exceptional to work with to provide alcohol for our wedding reception at Top of the Town. Prices were awesome and they had a great variety.

Romain was a great communicator. He provided a proposal right away, managed all of the logistics to bring the alcohol to our wedding site, and picked-up any unopened bottles. They issued the refund right away for anything that wasn't consumed.

We'd use ACE Beverage again as they were super easy to work with! Made our wedding day a breeze and uncomplicated! Couldn't ask for a better wedding vendor!

Normally, I don't write reviews.

The staff at Ace has been so helpful. I usually visit the store near my house to restock my liquor supply. But, I decided to try Ace since we were under a stay-at-home order due to the pandemic. They are convenient and offer fast delivery service during these trying times. This is my 3rd time using their service and if I ever order something that is no longer in stock, they call me for exchanges or a refund. The service and delivery staff are all professional and I will recommend others to try them out.

It was wonderful working with Ace Beverage for a recent wedding I coordinated. They did a great job helping my couple select alcohol they would need for the big day. Also, the drop off and pick up process were great! I will definitely work with Ace again in the future!

Ace beverage made everything so easy! I was stressed out about picking the right liquor for our wedding reception's open bar and making sure we had enough of everything. After one call to Ace I knew all that worrying was for nothing. They were on top of everything and immediately made me feel confident that all would be perfect - AND IT WAS! They worked within the budget I set, made great recommendations, delivered on time and picked up all the excess. Guests had a great time and loved it all!

Great selection of rums and cordials. Found interesting things like Maggie’s Farm falernum and PF Yuzu curaçao.

ACE was without a doubt one of the best decisions we made for our wedding. We knew from the beginning we wanted to handle the booze on our own since most people (even the caterers themselves) told us that the mark up can be pretty steep and that alcohol and mixers were a good way to save. However, we were a bit overwhelmed with the prospect of having to map out every thing and make the rounds to various suppliers/stores to find all the things we wanted. Enter ACE. They were quick to respond to our request for a proposal and paid attention to every request we made. They were also happy to walk us through the process and make numerous changes to our proposal before finalizing. Every step of the way they helped us to cut costs and stay within our budget. On the day of, they dropped everything off pretty much the second we had access to the venue and picked everything up LATE that night for a very reasonable fee. In the end, we spent way under what they initially quoted us and saved probably close to a grand on what we expected to spend originally. And more importantly, they saved us a tremendous amount of effort and stress. 100% would recommend over and over and over again.

A GREAT Place You Can Trust
On my second shipment from Ace Beverage, I had a small problem with damage to a display box in which a bottle of adult beverage was in, both inside a shipping box. As a small collector of bourbons, ryes, and American whiskies, I was disappointed that the display box holding the bottle had been damaged because of packaging. I contacted Ace through email and, to my surprise, received a response almost immediately. I received an apology and was told that I would be receiving a replacement box, which I did. It is that kind of customer service that puts a person's faith back in making purchases online.

Ace Beverage is our go-to beverage shop for neighborhood events, parties, and functions. We also visit the store for our own personal stock of beer, wine, and liquor. The staff we've worked with are knowledgeable, provide great recommendations within our budget, and provide fantastic customer service. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them!

ACE Beverage provided us with our wedding wine and bourbon. Mary spent a lot of time talking us through our options and made excellent recommendations to us. Their use or return policy was also extremely helpful.
I would definitely recommend ACE Beverages to anyone planning an event!

We wanted to provide the alcohol for an open bar at our wedding, vs. paying the markup for our caterer to provide the alcohol. We were fortunate to find a vendor and caterer that allowed this, because it saved us a lot of money.
Our caterer recommended ACE Beverage, and we chose them from three quotes we solicited. They were very easy to work with, very knowledgeable. They have a handy online form to fill out with the details of the event and what you are thinking for the bar. They made great recommendations for best value liquor, beer, and wine. Their initial quantities and budget seemed high, but their explanation was that if everyone pretty much drank only wine, only beer, or only liquor, there’d be enough for everyone. Obviously, that wouldn’t happen, but it could and we’d be covered.
Another quote we got had significantly lower quantities, but they were trying to stay within our stated budget (we didn’t really know what our budget should be). We ended up going with ACE but nudging their quantities down a bit, coming in about in the middle between ACE’s high quantities and the other’s low quantities, and it worked out great.
The way ACE operates is that you put down half of the estimate, they deliver, and after, you return whatever is unopened and un-iced. Then you get credited for all those returns, and just pay any additional consumed over the half-down deposit. (I think the 50% is the minimum, so if you returned more than that, you wouldn’t get money back, so the way it worked out for us, it’s good that we took the quantities down a bit.) Our caterer was familiar with ACE and knew to tell the bartenders “open as you go” to avoid opening bottles that would not be used. We returned enough that we had very little left to pay after the wedding. I will say, that had our caterer had another bartender working, which they probably should have, people would have not had to wait at the bar as much, and probably would have drunk more, so we wouldn’t have returned as much.
Finding a venue who allowed us to bring our own alcohol (as long as it was served by a licensed bartender—provided by the caterer) saved us SO much money and it was so easy, thanks to ACE. Ordering was easy, changes were easy. Delivery was on time. Returns were quick and easy. Highly recommend!

ACE Beverage was recommended to us by our caterer for our wedding which was held Saturday, May 24, 2014 at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. Working with Mary Bruce Leigh from ACE was a pleasure as she was very responsive, accommodating, and friendly. Overall ACE Beverage was one of the easiest vendors to work with and I would highly recommend them to any bride who is able to “bring their own alcohol” as it was a HUGE cost saver.

Pros
• Unopened/Items not placed on ice can be returned
• Prices are very competitive with local rates especially when considering that the products are delivered
• Large selection of beer, wine, and liquor to choose from
• Ice, beer, wine, champagne, liquor, and mixers all delivered on time and leftovers picked up the next day
• Work with you to choose items based on your budget, event, etc.

Cons
• ACE was able to provide me a beer list with prices via e-mail however, did not have a list of wines and prices