5 Wine Distribution Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: July 24th, 2023

Start A Wine Distribution Business

Are you a wine enthusiast with good knowledge of the wine industry, and do you love working with wineries? Combining your passion with sales and logistics skills can be an excellent opportunity to break into the exciting career of wine distribution.

A wine distributor purchases stock from vineyards and sells it to wholesalers and retailers at a profit. Your customers will be restaurants and liquor stores that sell wines.

To start the business, make relationships with the vendors within the winery industry. To run a successful wine distribution business, you might need to take a sommelier’s certification course, which gives you the expertise to improve your palate.

A wine distributor must also have excellent communication skills to make sales continually and stay in business.

Here are some real life success stories of starting a wine distribution business:

Learn more about starting a wine distribution business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a wine distribution business?
-> Pros and cons of a wine distribution business

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established wine distribution business

Other resources

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3. SevenFifty

SevenFifty is an online marketplace and communications platform for the beverage alcohol industry that helps importers, producers, distributors, and retail buyers connect with each other and do business in a modern world.

Where they're located: Denver, Colorado, USA
Website traffic: 500K/month

4. Liberation Distribution

LibDib is a wholesale wine and spirits distribution company, specializing in small production brands and craft alcohol products. We're a three-tier distributor with online ordering that's available to all producers looking to distribute in CA, CO, FL, NY, and WI.

5. CHW Store View

Where they're located: Ngambé-Tikar, Centre, Cameroon