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Buckalew's General Store

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Buckalew's General Store

Craft Beer, wine, cheese, artisan chocolates and small batch food. Unique gifts made by hand & heart Buckalew's General Store, located on Main St.

in Melrose provides a warm and welcoming shopping experience. We deliver authentic and unique gifts of food, art, craft beer and wine that inspire memory and creativity to those who shop and those who receive.

07/31/2025

Tomorrow is the August Wine Club!🍷✨

Join Kaden from Vine Farmer to sample the four wines of August from 5-7pm. Come sip and learn about the variety of unique wines hand selected by their expert importers! Cheers!🥂✨

07/28/2025

This week’s tasting is August Wine Club!

Join us from 5-7pm on Friday night to sample the four wines of August with our wine buyer, Michelle Penney!

07/27/2025

Summer Stroll 2025!!🥰🎉☀️💕

We had a ton of fun as usual with our Melrose community at the annual Summer Stroll on Friday night!!

Thank you to everyone who came down to visit our store and to GlenPharmer Distillery, Equilibrium Brewery, Despina’s Dishes, and the Melrose Food Drive for joining us!! We are grateful for our amazing customers who came by to sip, support small businesses, and drop off donations.❤️

We couldn’t have pulled this off without our incredible Buckalew’s team members!! We appreciate all your hard work—especially working in the hot weather. Best team EVER!!!🩷

07/25/2025

A sneak peek at some of the delicious Greek dishes from Despina’s Dishes that will be available in front of Buckalew’s at tonight’s Summer Stroll from 6-9pm!!! 🇬🇷💙
Spanakopita, Tiropites, Hummus, Greek cookies, and SO much more!! We can’t wait! Don’t forget we will have live Greek music too!

07/21/2025

Tasting season is in full swing at Buckalew’s!!🍷🥃🍺

Join us Thursday, July 24th from 5-7pm as Petit Vin Wines pours a stellar lineup of artisan wines from their curated import portfolio.🍇✨

Then, Friday, we’re going all out for the Summer Stroll!! From 6-9pm, taste award-winning spirits with GlenPharmer Distillery AND refreshing craft brews from Equilibrium Brewery. Despina’s Dishes will be serving up authentic Greek food outside the store, and we’ll have live traditional Greek music to keep things festive all evening long!🇬🇷🎶

We can’t wait to see you this week!!❤️

07/20/2025

Happy National Ice Cream Day!!🍦❤️

We’ve got a couple pints left of the delicious & always creative Gracie’s Ice Cream () in our freezer! Their fun flavors are made locally in Somerville. Skip the long lines and sn**ch up your yummy sweet treat on this beautiful summer day!😎🍨😋

07/18/2025

Patti was cooking up a storm yesterday in our kitchen!! 😋👩‍🍳✨

When it’s too hot out to cook, let Buckalew’s do the cooking for you! We have all kinds of delicious, homemade dishes (including the lasagna Patti is making here!) in our frozen section! Don’t forget about our peanut butter chocolate cookies too!!! 🍪😍

07/17/2025

TONIGHT!! Terroir Wines Tasting from 5-7pm🍷

Michelle & Sydney have been hard at work preparing for tonight’s Terroir Wines Tasting!

We’re sampling four brand new wines to our store!! Sip, shop, and enjoy with us!

07/15/2025

The Melrose Summer Stroll is next week!!!😮😍✨

Check out our lineup packed with tons of fun this year!🤩👏👏👏

🥃GlenPharmer Distillery Tasting
🍺Equilibrium Brewery Tasting
🇬🇷Homemade Greek Food by Despina’s Dishes
🎵Live Greek music
🍧Richie’s Italian Ice
🎨Free temporary tattoos for kids!

All happening Friday, July 25th from 6-9pm at Buckalew’s!! We absolutely LOVE this community event and hope to see you downtown again this year.😎🫶✨

07/14/2025

🍷🥃Two Tastings. Two Nights. Endless Flavor!!

Join us this week at Buckalew’s for back-to-back tastings!

📅Thursday, July 17th | 5-7pm
We’re pouring four beautiful wines with Terroir Wines—from crisp Pinot Noir Rosé to bold Zinfandel. Come sip through the lineup!

⚓️Friday, July 18th | 5-7pm
Atlantic Distributors is bringing the heat with a craft spirits tasting you won’t want to miss. Stay tuned to find out what surprise spirits we’re sampling later this week!

Come hang, taste, and explore something new with us🍷🥃

07/12/2025

Bill’s Swag Giveaway all weekend long at Buckalew’s!!! 👕🍺😎🎉❤️

Did you miss Bill’s raffle last night? Don’t worry—the raffle is still going on! Come by and purchase any beer or cider this weekend and enter the raffle to win a sweatshirt or t-shirt from your favorite local craft brewery. We’ll be giving away stickers and magnets too with your beer or cider purchase!! Only while supplies last so hurry down before they’re all gone!

07/11/2025

Bill is here until 7pm!!!😎🍺 Enter to win a sweatshirt from your favorite local craft brewery! Sample a whole BUNCH of different brews by Idle Hands and more! Plus there’s plenty of free stickers, magnets, beer koozies, beer glasses, and other goodies for you to snag!!🍻✨✨✨

Stop by and say a final farewell to Bill before he leaves for London! We’ll miss his presence very much at Buckalew’s, but can’t wait to hear about all his adventures abroad with his wife Allison. Keep up with them by following ! Cheers!!

Address

529 Main Street
Melrose, MA
02176

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 6pm
Tuesday	10am - 7pm
Wednesday	10am - 7pm
Thursday	10am - 7pm
Friday	10am - 7pm
Saturday	10am - 7pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Telephone

+17816659622

Website

http://www.buckalewsgeneralstore.com/

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