When one mentions the word distributor at a winery, any number of comments or expressions will be heard or seen.  Wine distributors do provide a needed service for many wineries. However, from what I have been able to discern most wine distributors want to work with the larger wineries that can provide many more cases of wines and continually fill the designated space shelf in a store. This leaves the smaller wineries to either self distribute which can be difficult and time consuming or to use lesser-known wine distributors.

How do winery owners know which wine distributors can be good business associates? A fairly recent website has come to their rescue. It’s called the No Pay Wine Distributors website, http://nopaywinedistributors.com.

What’s nice about this website is that wineries doing business with distributors can write reviews of the distributors they do business with and best of all the reviews can be negative or positive. All reviews are encouraged. Comments are reviewed before being posted on the website.

The website is easy to navigate and distributors are listed by individual states. Visitors to the website can also locate the most useful reviews, the latest reviews and the top rated distributors.

Check out the website as it gives an interesting view of another side of what winemaking for a living involves.

Cheers! Kathy