Wine distributors in Denver

Breakthru Beverage Colorado

National broadlineCentral Park

The Colorado arm of a North American beverage wholesaler, working from one facility in Denver. Its own page says it distributes wine, spirits and beer throughout Colorado, and the line above the heading records what the business used to be called locally: Beverage Distributors Company. Opening an account is tied to the license rather than to a sales call, because the site says an account is created automatically once a liquor license is active or pending, and a sales consultant is then assigned. Ordering runs through its own platform and a brand catalog the site warns does not reflect real-time inventory.

• Formerly Beverage Distributors Company
• One Colorado facility, in Denver
• Account opens automatically once your liquor license is active or pending
• Its catalog does not show live inventory, by its own warning

Serves: On-premise accounts, Off-premise accounts

Address

3980 Central Park Boulevard, Denver, CO, 80238

Phone

(303) 371-3421

Delivers

Colorado

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits of Colorado

National broadlineAurora

The Colorado branch of the largest wine and spirits distributor in the United States, and a thin row by design: its own Colorado location page returns a 404 and its locations index renders the state list in JavaScript, so nothing on the company's own site could be captured for this market. The address and phone come from the Aurora Chamber of Commerce member listing, and the building is documented by its contractor as a 26-acre Aurora site with a 320,000 square foot footprint, of which 291,000 square feet is warehouse. Its own newsroom announced the closing of its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Eagle Rock Distributing Co.'s Colorado operations, which it says gives it the Anheuser-Busch portfolio currently sold in Colorado, and that release is the whole of its beer evidence here.

• Nothing on the company's own site was capturable for Colorado
• 26-acre Aurora site, 320,000 square feet, per the contractor's project page
• Address and phone from the Aurora Chamber listing, not from the company
• Its own newsroom announced the closing of the Eagle Rock Colorado acquisition

Address

22800 E 19th Ave, Aurora, CO, 80019

Phone

(303) 312-8237

Empire Distributors of Colorado

Regional distributorMontbello

The Colorado operation of a distributor that also runs Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, working from Peoria Street in northeast Denver under its own state president. Its Colorado brand list runs to 887 entries and every one of them is categorized wine or spirits, with no beer anywhere in it. The Colorado page describes the territory as all of Colorado, from the plains to Pikes Peak. This is the house that bought Volio Vino Distribution in 2017, which is how that Denver importer describes the sale on its own about page, adding that the buyer was a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.

• 887 brands listed for the Colorado market, all wine or spirits
• Serves all of Colorado, from the plains to Pikes Peak, in its own words
• Bought Volio Vino Distribution in 2017

Address

5301 Peoria Street, Suite A, Denver, CO, 80239

Phone

(303) 934-1300

Delivers

All of Colorado, from the plains to Pikes Peak

Johnson Brothers Maverick of Colorado

Regional distributorAurora

A family-owned fine wine and craft spirits house covering the whole state from a warehouse in Aurora, with sales reps split between on-premise accounts and the mountain resort towns. It runs its own climate-controlled warehouse and delivery fleet, and says it was one of the first mid-sized fine wine and craft spirits distributors in the country to give customers an ecommerce ordering portal built for its own market. Trade buyers order and pay invoices through that portal. Its featured suppliers are import books rather than brands.

• Services the entire state, with dedicated mountain sales reps
• Own climate-controlled warehouse and fleet
• Ecommerce ordering and invoice payment through its own portal

Serves: Restaurants

Address

14704 East 33rd Place, Suite C, Aurora, CO, 80011

Phone

(303) 373-5778

Delivers

The entire state of Colorado

CTS Distributing, Inc.

Local specialistOsage Street

A wine and spirits wholesaler on Osage Street that says it has supplied top restaurants, hotels and liquor stores throughout Colorado for over thirty years. Its portfolio is published as a downloadable PDF and mirrored on a trade ordering platform, where buyers search it by producer, region, variety and price once they add a liquor license number. It also solicits work from the other side of the tier, inviting importers, national distributors and wineries to route Colorado distribution through it. Its field team is organized by corridor rather than by county: southern, central and northern Front Range, plus a mountains and Western Slope manager. It publishes six named staff email addresses and no switchboard.

• Over thirty years supplying Colorado restaurants, hotels and liquor stores
• Portfolio published as a PDF and on a trade platform
• Field managers split across three Front Range regions plus the mountains
• Publishes staff email addresses rather than a company phone number

Serves: Top restaurants, Hotels, Liquor stores

Address

5050 Osage St #100, Denver, CO, 80221

Delivers

Throughout the state of Colorado

Elite Brands of Colorado

Local specialistElyria-SwanseaEst. 2003

An independent, family-owned distributor of premium beverages that began as a wine house and became a beer house without giving up the wine. Its own timeline records the founder buying a small distributor of French and Italian wines in 2003, adding Belgian imports and specialty beer in 2006 to find out whether a staff of wine people could sell beer, taking Duvel's Colorado business in 2010, and being named Craft Beer Wholesaler of the Year by the Brewers Association in 2017. It publishes its own operating numbers: 105 employees, a 50,000 square foot temperature controlled facility with an 8,000 square foot cold box, 14 company-owned delivery trucks, 288 brands and 51 counties serviced.

• Founded 2003 by buying a small French and Italian wine distributor
• 51 counties serviced, its own published figure
• 105 employees, 14 company-owned trucks, a 50,000 square foot facility
• Craft Beer Wholesaler of the Year, Brewers Association, 2017

Serves: Restaurants, Grocery and chain retailers

Address

4780 Holly Street, Denver, CO, 80216

Phone

(303) 394-7535

Delivers

51 Colorado counties

Synergy Fine Wines

Regional distributorNortheast Park Hill

A three-state wine distributor with its Colorado office on Holly Street in Denver and further offices in Omaha and Albuquerque. Its own copy explains the name from the Greek synergos, working together, and describes the business as an exchange of ideas, knowledge and training between its sales force, the producers, the importers and its customers. The portfolio is split into wines, spirits, beer and cider, canned wine and keg wine, which makes it one of the few houses in this metro publishing keg and can formats as separate lines rather than as a footnote.

• Colorado, Nebraska and New Mexico from three offices
• Publishes canned wine and keg wine as separate portfolio lines
• Trade ordering through a three-tier platform

Address

3999 Holly St. Unit 4, Denver, CO, 80207

Phone

(303) 831-6130

Delivers

Colorado, Nebraska and New Mexico

Natural Wine Co

Local specialistOsage Street

A distributor built entirely on wine made with minimal intervention, which calls itself Colorado's leading distributor of fine wine made naturally and sells to retailers and restaurants across the state. Unusually for a wholesaler it publishes the import books it buys through rather than only the brands it sells, naming Rosenthal Wine Merchant, Rare Wine Co, Louis/Dressner Selections, Jeffrey Alpert Selections, Hootananny Wines, Vinum, Terra Nostra, Beaune Imports and Wine Dogs, alongside its own direct imports from France, Italy, Spain and New Zealand. Its warehouse address is shared with a logistics company and with another wine house on this page.

• Publishes the import books behind its portfolio, not just the brands
• Direct imports from France, Italy, Spain and New Zealand
• One of the founding distributors of Colorado Natural Wine Week

Serves: Retailers, Restaurants

Address

5000 Osage Street, Suite 800, Denver, CO, 80221

Phone

(303) 339-6501

Old World Wine Co.

Local specialistOsage Street

A European wine specialist whose warehouse is in Denver and whose office is 110 miles west in Edwards, near Vail. Its owner started importing French wine into Colorado in 2004 after finding that wines he liked were not brought into the state, and the book now runs to more than 150 producers from France, Austria, Italy, Portugal and Spain, chosen from small owner-operated grower domains farming sustainably, organically or biodynamically. Its sales team is organized by valley rather than by county: one rep for Boulder and Denver, one for Denver metro to northern Colorado, one covering Colorado Springs through Denver to Summit County, one for Aspen, the Roaring Fork and Telluride, and one for Vail and Steamboat.

• More than 150 European growers, and no domestic wine
• Warehouse in Denver, office in Edwards near Vail
• Sales team split by mountain valley rather than by county

Serves: Restaurants

Address

5000 Osage St Suite 800, Denver, CO, 80221

Phone

(970) 376-1370

Delivers

Front Range from Colorado Springs to northern Colorado, plus Summit County, Vail, Steamboat, Aspen, the Roaring Fork valley and Telluride

The Harvest Wine Company

Local specialistBear Valley

A small wine-only distributorship whose pitch is its book rather than its warehouse. Its own copy says it was started by friends with twenty years of industry experience in Colorado, and that the book took over a decade to assemble from small estates that perform well in other markets but have been unrepresented or underrepresented in Colorado. Orders go to a single email address. Its owner is one of the distributors behind Colorado Natural Wine Week, and a Colorado independent liquor store association lists it among a short list of vetted trade friends.

• Wine only, no beer and no spirits
• A book assembled over more than a decade from estates underrepresented in Colorado
• Named by the Colorado independent liquor store association as a trade friend

Address

4139 S Xavier Way, Denver, CO, 80236

Phone

(303) 241-1039

Estate Brands Distributing Company

Local specialistEst. 2012

A locally owned Colorado wholesaler founded in 2012 that says it hand selects every item it represents and is committed to excellence in customer service and product knowledge. Its four product headings are wine, aromatized wine, spirits and non-alcoholic, which puts vermouth and aperitif wines on the same footing as the rest of the book. It publishes no address, no phone number and no email address of any kind: the only route to it from its own site is a three-field contact form.

• Founded 2012, locally owned and operated
• Publishes aromatized wine as its own category
• No address, phone or email anywhere on its own site

Address

Denver, CO

Backstreets Wine Company

Local specialist

An Italian wine distributor in Colorado, and nothing but Italian: its producer menu lists 45 estates, every one of them Italian, from Alto Adige to Sicily and Sardinia. Its own account starts with two men who shared a passion for Italian wines and the families behind them, and it publishes a regions-with-varietals guide and a cellar selections list alongside a page telling drinkers where to buy its wines in Denver. It publishes no street address and no email, and the number here is the one behind its messaging link.

• Italian wine only, 45 producers
• Publishes a where-to-buy-in-Denver page for its own wines
• Publishes no street address and no email

Address

Denver, CO

Phone

(720) 938-1347

Veraison Beverage Distributors

Local specialistAthmar ParkEst. 2007

A wholesale wine distributor specializing in small family-owned vineyards that make limited quantities, serving retail and restaurant accounts across Colorado. Its own description says it was founded in 2007 by Bob Cohen after more than thirty years in the wine industry, and that the team between them carry over ninety years of wholesale wine distribution experience. No website for the company could be found, so everything here comes from the company's own copy published on a trade ordering platform, and the address from its federal wholesaler permit record. This is the thinnest row on the page.

• Founded 2007, small family-owned vineyards only
• No company website could be found
• Built from the company's own copy on a trade platform, not from its own site

Serves: Retail and restaurant accounts in Colorado

Address

725 S Jason St, Denver, CO

Delivers

Colorado

Classic Beverage Company

Local specialistNortheast Park Hill

A Colorado wholesaler that describes itself as a niche marketer connecting passionate, authentic producers from around the world with restaurateurs and retailers in Colorado, across fine wines, artisanal spirits, craft beers and bar accessories. Its own two web domains could not be captured: one returns a bot challenge and the other times out. So this row is built from the company's own description published on a trade ordering platform, and from an address and phone that three separate wine producers publish for it on their distributor pages.

• Fine wine, artisanal spirits, craft beer and bar accessories
• Neither of its two web domains could be captured
• Address and phone corroborated across three producers' distributor pages

Serves: Restaurateurs, Retailers

Address

6489 E 39th Ave, Denver, CO, 80207

Phone

(303) 825-1360

Delivers

Colorado

Restaurant Depot Denver

Cash and carryLincoln Park

A cash-and-carry warehouse you can buy from without a sales rep. Its own wine and spirits page states that Restaurant Depot is a state-licensed wholesaler and that anyone with a state-issued resale license and an alcohol license can buy, and it names one wine steward for Colorado, at Denver. It publishes a Colorado liquor customer application as a downloadable form. The West 13th Avenue warehouse opens seven days a week, and there are two more metro branches at Greenwood Village and Broomfield plus one in Colorado Springs. Its own home page separately carries a Fresh Produce heading alongside deli, meat, seafood, dairy and dry groceries, which is what puts it on our Denver produce page too.

• A state-licensed wholesaler, open to any holder of a resale and alcohol license
• One named Colorado wine steward, at Denver
• Three metro warehouses plus Colorado Springs
• Open seven days a week

Serves: Restaurants

Address

1740 W 13th Avenue, Denver, CO, 80204

Phone

(303) 260-6005