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States with the most wineries

States ranked by the number of TTB-permitted wineries (bonded wine premises).

California
#1 state
6,399
Wineries
51
States ranked
TTB
Federal source

According to the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) List of Permittees, published April 2025, 83,590 federal alcohol Basic Permits are on file across 52 states and territories, 18,038 wineries, 5,590 distilleries, 21,314 importers, and 38,648 wholesalers. State counts here are tallied directly from that public federal record, not modeled or estimated, and per-capita rates use U.S. Census Bureau Vintage-2023 population. Breweries are excluded: they hold a Brewer's Notice under a separate statute and are not in the TTB list. See the methodology for the calculation.

The ranking in one line

California leads with 6,399 wineries, followed by Washington (1,422) and Texas (1,009).

6,399
wineries · California
1,422
wineries · Washington
1,009
wineries · Texas
51
states ranked

Source: TTB FOIA List of Permittees, April 2025.

Top 12 states - wineries

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What this shows California leads the field with 6,399 wineries.

Source TTB FOIA List of Permittees As of April 2025

Full ranking

# State WineriesWineriesDistilleriesWholesalers
1 California 6,399 6,399 561 9,309
2 Washington 1,422 1,422 239 1,902
3 Texas 1,009 1,009 326 2,124
4 Oregon 995 995 157 1,451
5 New York 843 843 344 2,699
6 Michigan 747 747 310 469
7 Virginia 637 637 155 713
8 Pennsylvania 619 619 320 1,000
9 Ohio 554 554 179 579
10 Missouri 358 358 134 502
11 North Carolina 307 307 185 983
12 Colorado 274 274 173 782
13 Wisconsin 251 251 123 434
14 Maryland 214 214 86 526
15 Florida 211 211 197 2,662
16 Georgia 204 204 146 682
17 Illinois 204 204 115 1,136
18 Massachusetts 201 201 101 575
19 Iowa 182 182 55 927
20 Indiana 174 174 119 262
21 Arizona 170 170 71 389
22 Minnesota 166 166 82 319
23 Kentucky 151 151 198 428
24 New Mexico 133 133 55 158
25 Tennessee 127 127 142 409
26 Idaho 125 125 35 172
27 Oklahoma 123 123 25 123
28 Connecticut 113 113 43 428
29 Vermont 104 104 53 135
30 New Jersey 104 104 71 747
31 Maine 89 89 56 423
32 Kansas 86 86 43 895
33 New Hampshire 83 83 34 82
34 Alabama 77 77 58 144
35 South Carolina 64 64 62 907
36 Montana 48 48 42 128
37 South Dakota 47 47 19 38
38 Arkansas 46 46 23 269
39 West Virginia 46 46 38 188
40 Nebraska 42 42 32 86
41 Utah 39 39 33 87
42 Rhode Island 34 34 21 134
43 Puerto Rico 32 32 123 455
44 Alaska 30 30 24 73
45 North Dakota 30 30 5 59
46 Louisiana 24 24 55 194
47 Hawaii 23 23 29 134
48 Wyoming 19 19 21 89
49 Nevada 18 18 40 406
50 Delaware 16 16 7 177
51 Mississippi 13 13 11 492

Per-class columns show how each state's permits split across the four federal classes.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a winery here?

A holder of a federal wine premises permit in the TTB List of Permittees. That spans large commercial producers and small bonded wineries alike; it reflects federal licensing, not acreage or output.

Why is winery count so concentrated?

Wine production depends on climate and terroir, so wineries cluster tightly in suitable regions. That makes the geographic concentration of wineries stronger than for distilleries, importers, or wholesalers, which can locate anywhere.

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Sources: TTB FOIA List of Permittees (April 2025), published by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Reformatted without alteration; confirm any record against the official TTB list.

Every figure on PlainAlcohol is rendered directly from federal TTB permit data, no number is typed in by an editor. This ranking is rendered directly from the TTB List of Permittees, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.