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Top 25 Independent liquor stores based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,149 independent liquor stores headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 28,016 professional contacts across them, including 9,883 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers independent liquor stores headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest independent liquor stores based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,883 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “the country‘s largest independent retailer of fine wine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,868 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Breakthru Beverage Group is one of the leading beverage wholesalers in the United States and the largest broker in Canada, representing a portfolio of premier spirits, wine, beer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,962 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Johnson Brothers is a third-generation, family-owned wine, beer, and spirits distributor founded in 1953 by Lynn Johnson in Saint Paul, Minnesota.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,536 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The company began in 1909 in Dallas, Texas, where Louis Glazer opened the Jumbo Bottling Company, which distributed a line of flavored soda waters from the back of horse-drawn…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 779 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Jack Holloway in 1936 in Orlando, Florida, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits is America's largest family-owned wine and spirits retailer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 760 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Heidelberg Distributing Company began in 1938, with founder Albert W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 626 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the Midwest's largest retailer of fine wines, spirits, beer and cigars.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 556 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Owned and operated by the same Houston family since 1962, Spec's is a true destination shopping experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 487 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fedway is New Jersey's leading wine and spirits distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 348 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Flanigan's was incorporated in Florida in 1959 and commenced operating as a chain of small cocktail lounges and package liquor stores throughout South Florida.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skurnik Wines & Spirits is an importer and distributor of fine wines and spirits headquartered in the heart of New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Twin Liquors is a family-owned, Austin-based retailer of fine wine and spirits, with over 100 stores across Texas, including Sigel's in Dallas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Ridge Beverage Company, Inc, founded in 1938, is a full-service distributor of beer, wine, cider, flavored malt beverages, hard seltzers, canned cocktails, and non-alcohol…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “National Distributing Company (NDC) is a family-owned business that has evolved into the nation’s second largest wholesale wine and spirits distributor, when combined with its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OUR MISSION STATEMENT:"Building Brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BuzzBallz/Southern Champion, is the only woman-owned Distillery/Winery in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The largest online marketplace that simplifies the complex process of ordering wholesale alcohol by connecting buyers, distributors and suppliers all in one place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1935, in the small town of Clinton, MA, Walter Burke, a local grocer, had the vision of expanding his business beyond his retail market to the post prohibition era of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pursuing the vision of our namesake founder, Frederick Wildman and Sons, is dedicated to sourcing, distributing and marketing the world’s finest wines and spirits to provide…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Athens Distributing Company of Tennessee is the state's premier purveyor of fine wine, spirits, and beer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At K&L, our expert buyers travel the world to bring you the finest wines, spirits, and beer from producers we believe in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Budweiser was introduced to Eastern Tennessee in the mid 1880’s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Big Red Liquors Indiana’s Premier Beer, Wine & Spirits Retailer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: independent liquor stores. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names independent liquor stores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of independent liquor stores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name independent liquor stores. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Independent liquor stores based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,149 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among independent liquor stores, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “independent liquor stores”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names independent liquor stores), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among independent liquor stores, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 9,883 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Independent liquor stores by metro
- Independent liquor stores in New York51
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names independent liquor stores, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many independent liquor stores are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,149 independent liquor stores headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Total Wine & More, headquartered in Bethesda, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most independent liquor stores?
New York leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Denver (11) and Rochester (11).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 9,883 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,149 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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