Highly recommended: I'm told store employees have the opportunity to taste about 70% of the wine in stock. Not every employee tastes the same 70%, which usually means you don't have far to go to find an employee well familiar with the wine you are interested in purchasing. I do not know about other states but the prices and employee knowledge make quite an attractive package to someone from the state in which I reside. I don't know about the other Beltway stores, but this one is great.