Wine Distribution Market Statistics

• The US wine market increased by 4% to over $72 billion in 2019, from the previous year.
• In 2019, there were a total of 409.1 million wine cases shipped in the US, increasing by 1.1% from the previous year. Of these shipments, 277.8 million were domestic wine and 131.3 million were imported wine.
• About 80% of the wine in the US "is sold in off-premise establishments."
• Direct-to-consumer sales grew by 7.4% to $3.2 billion in 2019, representing 6.6 million cases.
• Also, the direct-to-consumer distribution market grew by 7.4% in value and 4.7% in volume in 2019.
• As per SipSource, "the value of wine sales dropped between 30 and 90 basis points, with a minus 1.4% volume dip" across all distribution channels and wine categories.

Major Players

• There are approximately 958 wine distributors in the US market. The five largest players in the market are Southern Glazer’s Wines & Spirits, RNDC/Young’s Market Co, Breakthru Beverage Group, Winebow Group, and Empire Distributors.