Specialist Fulfilment Services

Wine Fulfilment Centre

We offer stress-free B2C and B2B fulfilment services for alcohol products – freeing you up to focus on growing your brand.

  • Consistent fulfilment team assigned to your business
  • Helpful, human client support; no cumbersome 'ticket system'
  • We can guide you through the premises licensing process
  • Secure storage in remote access alarmed building with CCTV
  • Integration with your sales channels and systems
  • Introductions to experts via our ecommerce growth network

Specialist fulfilment for wineries, wine merchants and subscription brands

Whether you sell boutique wines, premium vintages, mixed cases or monthly wine subscriptions, your customers expect every bottle to arrive safely and in perfect condition. At Vdepot, our wine fulfilment services are designed to help wineries, online wine retailers and drinks brands streamline their logistics without compromising on quality.

From secure warehousing and inventory management to careful pick, pack and dispatch, we manage the fulfilment process from start to finish, allowing you to spend more time growing your business and less time managing orders.

Fulfilment design for wine brands

Wine presents unique fulfilment challenges. Glass bottles require careful handling, packaging must protect products during transit, and inventory needs to be managed accurately to ensure customers receive exactly what they’ve ordered.

Our experienced fulfilment team understands these requirements and follows proven processes to ensure every order is handled with care. Whether you’re shipping individual bottles, gift sets or full cases, we’ll tailor our fulfilment solution around your products and your customers.

Our wine fulfilment services include:

  • Secure warehousing and inventory management
  • Pick, pack and dispatch
  • Batch and stock rotation management
  • Gift box and presentation packaging
  • Mixed case assembly
  • Subscription wine club fulfilment
  • UK and international delivery options

Whatever your order volumes, we’ll create a fulfilment solution that supports your business.

Things to consider when selling wine online

Personal alcohol licence

Before your business can begin selling alcoholic products, you must have a personal licence. The personal licence is designed to ensure that anybody running or managing a business that sells or supplies alcohol will do so in a professional fashion. In order to apply, you must be aged 18 years or over, and hold a relevant licensing qualification. The UK government website has a list of accredited personal licence qualification providers.

Alcohol premises licence

When you choose Vdepot as your fulfilment partner, together we apply for a premises licence under your company name & our address. We can guide you through this process; we hold premises licences for lots of alcohol brands.

Wholesale & B2B alcohol fulfilment

If you sell alcohol to other businesses for resale, your company will need approval for the UK’s Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS). You will need to share evidence of approval with Vdepot so that we can notify our local authority.

Suitable packaging

Have you finalised the packaging for your products? We advise that the goods need to be packaged and protected as well as possible, given that couriers do not accept responsibility for loss or damage to glass or liquid items.

Temperature controlled storage

Do your products need to be frozen or refrigerated? If so, we will need to bring in a suitable fridge or freezer to accommodate your products. We can talk you through the process while the council processes the premises licence.

Inventory management services

Our dedicated team can run quality assurance checks, date rotation, batch/serial control and product range management services on your inventory, and ensure you have easy access to all of this data in your My.Vdepot account.

Age verification measures

We strongly recommend that you have independent, standards-based age checks on your shop’s checkout. The solution you use for this should be operated by a member of the Age Verification Providers’ Association (AVPA) and operate to PAS 1296:20181. This is the most robust way to prevent the offence of selling alcohol to a minor. As our client, we can recommend some excellent free and low-cost solutions to you for your webshop.