U.S. Licensed Winerys

What the Data Shows for U.S. Winerys

The federal TTB permittee registry currently lists 4,525 active winerys operating in the United States. Bonded wineries producing wine from grapes and other fruit. Includes estate wineries, commercial wineries, and farm wineries. Every row in the ranking table below reflects a federally licensed facility — not a state-level estimate, not an industry-association count, and not a marketing roll-up. These are Bonded Winery permit holders. Virtual wineries, custom-crush clients, and alternating proprietorships may share premises under a single bonded permit, so bonded-winery counts can understate the number of distinct wine brands in market.

Geographic concentration is the single most useful signal in state-level rankings. California leads with 1,478 active winerys, followed by Washington (595) and Oregon (449). Those clusters usually reflect a combination of climate (for wineries), favorable state ABC licensing rules (for breweries and distilleries), and local capital access for facility build-out. A state's ranking here is a lagging indicator of 5–10 years of regulatory and market conditions, not a snapshot of current growth.

Federal winery counts should be read alongside state-level context. The TTB regulates production, labeling, and federal excise tax; each state's Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) authority regulates licensing, retail sale, distribution, and state-level excise. A state with many TTB winerys but restrictive ABC rules (direct-shipping bans, franchise-distribution laws, taproom caps) can have a crowded producer side and a constrained retail side at the same time. For public-health comparisons, NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) tracks consumption independently — producer counts do not map cleanly to per-capita drinking or alcohol-related harm.