Total Wine Production: United States
The US Alcohol and Tabacco Tax and Trade Bureau regulates wine production in the United States. In that function, they produce a set of interesting wine production statistics. The format of the data is inconvenient (two PDFs with different layouts depending on the year and month), but with a bit of data science, I’ve managed to collate the data for analysis.
According to the data, the United States produced 722.5 million gallons of bottled wine in 2020. Annual wine production from 2012 to 2020 is shown in the table below.
| US Bottled Wine Production by Year (Millions of Gallons) |
|
|---|---|
| Data provided by the US TTB | |
| Year | Total |
| 2012 | 620.7 |
| 2013 | 652.2 |
| 2014 | 686.9 |
| 2015 | 698.7 |
| 2016 | 698.8 |
| 2017 | 711.1 |
| 2018 | 661.2 |
| 2019 | 738.8 |
| 2020 | 722.5 |
US Wine Production by Month
The data is monthly, so we can examine wine production by month. Overall wine production has been increasing over time. Using linear regression, we estimate the annual increase in wine production is approximately 56,700 gallons per year.
California Wine Production
California is by far (shown below) most significant wine-producing state. The graphic below shows California produces 47 million gallons of wine per month, although there is month-to-month variations. The lighter blue line depicts the slope of the increase of wine production in California. Wine production in California is increasing at 643,000 gallons per year since 2012.
California Wine Production Relative to Other States
California is the behemoth of US wine production, as shown below. No other states comes close to rivaling wine production in California. California undoubtedly has an excellent wine climate.
The TTB wine production data indicates that all other states produce, on average, 24% as much bottled wine as California. The graphic below shows both total wine production for all other states and it’s fraction relative to California production by month.
Wine Production: Other States
What are the other top wine producing states in the United States? The #2 to #7 bottled wine-producing states by month are shown below.
The graphic above can be simplified by examining state wine production by year.
Wine Production by State [and Year]
In summary, California is the dominant producer of wine in the United States, shown in the table below providing the wine-producing statistics by state and year since 2012. This US TTB wine production by state data is hopefully useful for you.
| Bottled Wine Production by State by Year (Millions of Gallons) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data provided by the US TTB | |||||||||
| State | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| California | 517.6 | 533.4 | 543.3 | 550.6 | 560.6 | 569.7 | 525.0 | 588.8 | 579.9 |
| New York | 33.2 | 32.2 | 38.2 | 33.9 | 32.5 | 31.3 | 29.0 | 31.2 | 29.1 |
| Washington | 22.5 | 25.2 | 29.3 | 33.2 | 29.9 | 31.3 | 27.6 | 29.1 | 26.8 |
| Pennsylvania | 9.3 | 18.9 | 29.1 | 29.0 | 25.5 | 24.9 | 25.3 | 26.8 | 23.1 |
| Oregon | 5.6 | 7.0 | 8.5 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 13.2 | 12.0 |
| Texas | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 7.8 |
| Ohio | 3.6 | 5.3 | 7.5 | 9.9 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 5.5 | 6.7 | 5.4 |
| Florida | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 4.3 |
| Michigan | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
| North Carolina | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| Vermont | 8.9 | 9.2 | 7.4 | 6.9 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
| Indiana | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
| Wisconsin | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
| Virginia | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.6 |
| Massachusetts | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.1 |
| Illinois | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Kentucky | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
| New Jersey | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| Missouri | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Colorado | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| Minnesota | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| Tennessee | 0.3 | 1.2 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
| Maine | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Maryland | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Idaho | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| New Mexico | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Georgia | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Louisiana | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Arkansas | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| New Hampshire | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Iowa | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Nebraska | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Arizona | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Connecticut | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Montana | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Kansas | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Alaska | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Rhode Island | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| District Of Columbia | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| South Carolina | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| South Dakota | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| West Virginia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Oklahoma | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Alabama | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Hawaii | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Mississippi | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Utah | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Delaware | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Wyoming | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| North Dakota | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Nevada | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Others | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | NA | NA |
| Total | 620.7 | 652.2 | 686.9 | 698.7 | 698.8 | 711.1 | 661.2 | 738.8 | 722.5 |