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How to find wine & spirits distributors in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is one of five US control states for wine & spirits. The state itself is the wholesaler, so there is no private distributor tier to prospect for those categories. Federal records still show 1,498 TTB-permitted wholesalers at a Pennsylvania address across 478 cities (mostly beer, which stays private here); for wine & spirits, the route to market is a state listing plus a broker.
What Account Finder actually holds for Pennsylvania
1,498 TTB federal permits
1,180 distinct companies hold a federal Basic Permit to wholesale wine & spirits at a Pennsylvania address, per the latest TTB refresh.
478 cities represented
Philadelphia leads with 228 permitted wholesalers; see the full breakdown below.
Control state
Pennsylvania runs wine & spirits wholesale itself. What that means for a new brand.
Pennsylvania: the state itself is the wholesaler
What changes here
Control state: the state itself is the wine & spirits wholesaler in Pennsylvania. Instead of private distributors, plan for a listing with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) and work with brokers to represent the brand. Cold-calling private wholesalers is the single most common mistake a new brand makes in a control state. There usually isn’t one to call for wine & spirits.
The two real jobs
Getting listed with the state’s own purchasing process, and finding the broker who already works alongside it. Read the full control-states playbook for how both work in practice.
In Pennsylvania, one buyer runs the shelves
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is one of the largest wine and spirits buyers in the country, and it retails what it buys through its own Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores. Getting in means being selected by its category buyers, not signing a distributor.
560+
Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores across the state (PLCB, 2026; the count moves with openings and closures).
$3.18B
in wine and spirits sales in the fiscal year ended 30 June 2024, at about 575 stores.
Four doors
onto the shelf: a regular listing, a one-time buy, a probationary listing for new items, or Chairman’s Selection. Licensees can special-order what the state does not stock.
$265 + $700
a Pennsylvania vendor permit and its filing fee, required once a product is selected for regular listing, after registering on the supplier portal.
3 L
of wine to go per transaction at restaurants and grocery stores holding a wine expanded permit (Act 39 of 2016): a second shelf beside the state’s.
Category buyers evaluate samples against what the category and price band already carry, then recommend to the board. Arrive with the gap you fill, the price at the shelf, and a support plan. The wine expanded permits are the on-premise and grocery play a private distributor would run elsewhere; here both shelves are stocked from the same buyer.
Verified 2026-09-07 against Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, wine & spirits suppliers. Listing calendars change; check the current cycle before you submit.
Top cities by TTB wholesaler permits
Every city with a federally permitted wine & spirits wholesaler, ranked by count. A permit address is a business location, not a proof of active solicitation in that market.
| City | Permits | Share of state |
|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia | 228 | 15.2% |
| Pittsburgh | 145 | 9.7% |
| Harrisburg | 19 | 1.3% |
| King Of Prussia | 18 | 1.2% |
| West Chester | 18 | 1.2% |
| Lancaster | 15 | 1.0% |
| Bethlehem | 14 | 0.9% |
| Wilkes Barre | 12 | 0.8% |
| Erie | 11 | 0.7% |
| Malvern | 11 | 0.7% |
Companies with the most permitted locations in Pennsylvania
Ranked by how many separate TTB-permitted locations each company holds in the state: the closest honest proxy for footprint that federal Basic Permit data supports. It is not a curated “top distributor” list: TTB permits cover any wholesaler, importer or self-distributing retailer, carry no phone number, portfolio or category, and a permit-holder is not necessarily taking on new brands. Several names below will be beer wholesalers, since private wholesale still operates for beer in Pennsylvania even though wine & spirits does not. This list doesn’t separate the two, because the TTB permit record itself doesn’t say which categories a permit-holder actually moves.
| Company | Federal footprint |
|---|---|
| American Spirits Exchange Limited | 4 permitted locations |
| Medallion Imports LLC | 4 permitted locations |
| Southern Glazer'S Of Pa | 4 permitted locations |
| Consolidated Package Store | 3 permitted locations |
| Credo Imports LLC | 3 permitted locations |
| Finca De Torres Winery | 3 permitted locations |
| Kagan Imports, LLC | 3 permitted locations |
| Pabst Brewing Company, LLC | 3 permitted locations |
| "k" Financial & Diamonds Trading Incorporated | 2 permitted locations |
| 2m Marketing Group | 2 permitted locations |
| 528 Holdings, LLC | 2 permitted locations |
| 6 Degree Tequila, LLC | 2 permitted locations |
| 8:30 Ish LLC | 2 permitted locations |
| A.I.R Distribution | 2 permitted locations |
| A.S. International Marketing INC. | 2 permitted locations |
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