Wine and spirits 3PLs
Alcohol fulfillment comes with licenses, state limits, adult signatures and temperature holds. Here is what to require from a wine or spirits 3PL, and companies that ship for wineries and distilleries.
A TTB-bonded warehouse can hold wine before federal excise tax is paid. Ask which licenses the facility holds and whether your product would be stored in bond or tax-paid.
Wine ages in storage. Ask what temperature and humidity they hold, how it is monitored, and whether they offer weather holds when transit is too hot or cold.
Carriers require an adult signature for alcohol deliveries. Confirm the 3PL has alcohol shipping agreements and labels every package correctly.
Most states allow direct-to-consumer wine shipping with a permit, with volume limits and tax reporting. Spirits are allowed in far fewer states. Ask how they check orders against state rules.
Wine clubs ship in large waves. Ask about wave capacity, gift messages, and how they handle declined cards or address changes mid-run.
Customers order a specific vintage. Make sure the 3PL tracks vintage or lot and never substitutes without your say.
A short list of 3PLs whose own websites say they serve this specialty.
21 of 21 3PLs
Farmingdale, NY · also NJ
Farmingdale, New York 3PL with facilities on Long Island and in Edison, New Jersey, permitted by the New York and New Jersey liquor authorities to store wine and spirits. Offers FDA-registered storage for food and beverage, pick and pack, ecommerce dropship, kitting and transportation.
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, North Carolina warehousing, contract packaging and ecommerce fulfillment company with sites in Charlotte, Concord and Claremont. Holds an NC ABC permit for alcoholic beverages, offers food and beverage secondary packaging, ambient, temperature-controlled and hazardous storage, and EDI retail fulfillment with lot and expiry tracking.
Warehouse system: Cadence WMS
Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon warehousing and distribution company with a licensed food-grade, USDA organic-certified facility. Offers temperature- and humidity-controlled storage, beer and wine storage under OLCC license, and order fulfillment.
Warehouses in AR, CA, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MS, MO, OR, TX, WI
Century-old logistics company with a large US and Canada warehouse network and dedicated programs for supplement and cosmetics brands. It tracks lot, batch and expiry, rotates stock FEFO/FIFO, and offers kitting, subscription assembly and recall support. It is larger and more of a network operator than most entries here.
Napa, CA · also MO
DTC wine fulfillment company with facilities in Napa, California and St. Louis, Missouri, shipping wine club, ecommerce, event, telesales and tasting room orders. It runs its own CopperLink platform and offers kitting, gift and sampling assembly.
Warehouse system: CopperLink (proprietary)
Louisville, KY
Louisville, Kentucky ecommerce fulfillment company offering compliant storage and shipping for distilled spirits, aimed at bourbon producers. Handles seasonal and special-release kitting for DTC and B2B orders, plus temperature-controlled warehousing.
Warehouses in NJ, NY
Long Island 3PL with warehouses in Brentwood and Central Islip, New York, and Burlington, New Jersey, licensed to warehouse wine and spirits in New York. Also offers food-grade and climate-controlled storage, supplement handling, kitting, retail-ready prep and lot traceability.
Sonoma, CA
Wine and spirits storage, consolidation and distribution provider with warehouses in Sonoma and American Canyon, California. Offers bonded, temperature-controlled storage and DTC fulfillment for wineries, including wine club and direct-to-retailer orders.
Chalfont, PA
Chalfont, Pennsylvania 3PL with warehousing across metro Philadelphia, offering ecommerce and B2B fulfillment, kitting, contract packaging and retail/grocery distribution. Its food and beverage program includes SQFI-certified warehousing and Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board compliance for alcoholic beverages.
Saddle Brook, NJ
Saddle Brook, New Jersey warehousing and distribution company that is FDA registered, New Jersey alcohol-licensed and C-TPAT verified, specializing in storage and transport of beer, wine, spirits and other food and beverage products.
St. Helena, CA
Boutique DTC wine fulfillment house in St. Helena in upper Napa Valley, handling wine club releases, allocations and daily shipments from a temperature-controlled warehouse. It offers custom kitting and packaging and runs on the FORT Systems 3PL platform.
Warehouse system: FORT Systems
Rochester, NH
New Hampshire 3PL running a large single facility in Rochester for consumer packaged goods brands selling DTC and wholesale. Offers kitting, Amazon prep and alcohol storage and fulfillment, including club and subscription kits.
Warehouse system: Extensiv
Torrance, CA
Los Angeles-area 3PL with facilities near the LA ports and LAX, headquartered in Torrance. Stores and ships food, beverage, supplement and cosmetic products for B2B and ecommerce brands, including temperature-controlled storage.
Warehouse system: Extensiv
American Canyon, CA
Wine storage and distribution warehouse in American Canyon, Napa County, licensed for TTB bonded and tax-paid wine storage in a temperature-controlled building. It also does finish work such as tissue wrapping, wax dipping and bottle labeling; its site does not describe DTC parcel shipping.
Warehouses in CA, TX, NY
Alcohol ecommerce fulfillment company that grew out of a California wine and spirits retailer founded in 2006, picking and shipping orders through its licensed retail network in California, Texas and New York. It assembles gift sets and seasonal kits and runs its own 3JMS technology with API connections.
Sonoma, CA
Sonoma, California management, sales and logistics company for wine producers. Ships wine direct to consumers from its Sonoma operations and can handle seasonal wine club fulfillment and holiday orders.
Chicago, IL · also CA, NY
Chicago-based wine fulfillment house running a temperature-controlled Midwest warehouse plus New York and California gateway warehouses. Picks, packs and ships for wineries, wine clubs and ecommerce wine marketers.
Napa, CA
Napa wine warehousing cooperative offering temperature-controlled storage, bonded and tax-paid storage and shipping, and wholesale and export services for its members. Member DTC orders are fulfilled through a partnership with Wineshipping.
Napa, CA
Napa-based fulfillment house that has shipped wine direct to consumers since 2009, handling wine club, tasting room and ecommerce orders from a temperature-controlled Napa County facility. Orders come in by API from a winery's website, POS or compliance software.
Warehouses in CA, OR, OH
DTC wine fulfillment company (the fulfillment arm linked from WineDirect) running temperature-controlled centers in Napa Valley, Santa Maria, Paso Robles, the Willamette Valley and Glenwillow, Ohio. It handles daily orders and scheduled wine club shipments for wineries from boutique to enterprise.
Warehouses in CA, OR
Wine-only fulfillment house that has worked with wineries since 1998, offering DTC, wholesale and direct-to-trade order fulfillment plus bonded and tax-paid case storage in climate-controlled warehouses. Clients manage orders and inventory through its own Awesome Client Portal, and an open API is available.
Listings are in alphabetical order and no 3PL pays to appear. Each claim is checked against the 3PL’s own website on the date shown. Confirm details with the 3PL before you sign.
Everything we would want in hand before talking to a 3PL: questions to send before the sales call, an onboarding checklist, and a worksheet to compare quotes line by line. Free to print, no sign-up.
3PL readiness kit
Send these before the sales call, and ask for answers in writing.
Work through this in the four to six weeks before your first inbound shipment.
Fill in one column per quote, using your real monthly order and pallet numbers.
| Line item | 3PL A | 3PL B | 3PL C |
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| Receiving (per hour, pallet or carton) | |||
| Storage (per pallet, shelf or bin, per month) | |||
| Pick and pack (first item) | |||
| Pick and pack (each additional item) | |||
| Packaging and inserts | |||
| Kitting or assembly | |||
| Retail or B2B order handling | |||
| Returns processing | |||
| Monthly minimum | |||
| Estimated monthly total |
A warehouse approved by the TTB to hold wine before federal excise tax is paid. Tax becomes due when the wine is removed from bond, which can help cash flow for wineries holding large inventories.
Only to the few states that allow it, and usually with extra licensing. Most spirits brands sell through distributors or retailers instead. Ask the 3PL which states it ships spirits to and under whose license.
Heat can damage wine in transit. Many wine 3PLs hold shipments or switch to faster services when forecast temperatures along the route are too high or too low.
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