Wine co-packers

The pattern

Custom crush, mobile bottling, co-packing — three different things

The wine trade uses three words where other categories use one, and they are not interchangeable. Custom crush is a fixed facility that makes the wine for you, from fruit through to bottle. Mobile bottling or canning is a line that drives to your site and packages wine you already made. Co-packing is the generic term this site uses for both. If you ask a custom crush facility for a co-packing quote you will get an answer to a question you did not ask, and vice versa.

Twenty-five plants and eleven trucks

Traditional wine bottling happens inside wineries, on their own lines or with mobile bottling trucks, and most of it never appears in a co-packing directory. What did appear over the last decade is canning capacity — and a large part of that capacity has wheels. Eleven of these 36 are mobile operators. The other 25 are fixed facilities.

The distinction is not cosmetic. A mobile canner is the right answer if you already have wine in tank, a licensed site and nowhere to package it. It is no answer at all if you have no production site of your own. Among the 25 fixed plants, 20 fill cans and 14 fill glass — so even there, canned wine is what this list is mostly built on.

Thirteen of the 36 are in California, more than a third, with Oregon and Washington adding six more between them. That is the West Coast wine corridor doing what you would expect, and it means a brand outside those states is choosing from a genuinely thin national list.

Why this page is different

Licensing is not optional and not a differentiator

All 36 hold alcohol authorisation, so unlike every other page on this site, the Alcohol column tells you nothing here. It is table stakes.

What does separate them is bonded status and where your wine sits while it waits. Wine moves under federal excise rules from crush to shelf, and a transfer in bond between two bonded premises is a different transaction from a taxpaid shipment. Ask before you move a single gallon.

Five of the 36 publish a minimum — roughly the national average of one in eight, which for a category this specialised is better than it sounds. Only 12 of the 25 fixed plants offer formulation, the lowest share of any category we track at this size. That is not a gap in our data: in wine you arrive with the wine.