The Best Wine Delivery Services

Buy on Vivino

Vivino is an essential app for any wine lover, even if just for its label scanning feature, which allows you to take a photo of any bottle to quickly learn about the wine’s flavor profile and average price, as well as reviews from fellow database users. There are about 48 million Vivino users, each of whom contributes to the app’s unique insights on who’s drinking and buying what at any given time. Essentially, this is a super easy-to-use wine library that doubles as a massive online retailer, complete with a jury of your peers to help steer you in the right direction in terms of what to drink now and what to buy for later, whether you’re in an actual wine store or buying through Vivino.

You can also shop via Vivino’s website, which provides a more spacious interface for users to browse wines by category—think affordable reds and whites, bestselling bottles in your area, special offers, and more. Either way, you can use Vivino to search for bottles by the label, region, grape(s), pairing capabilities, price, and user rating, translating to a hyper-personalized shopping experience. Just be aware that some merchants require a bottle minimum for specific wines, which is something to consider while you’re loading up your cart. Shipping is available to all states across the country, but note that the selection varies by state depending on liquor laws and regulations. Shipping costs also vary.

Buy on Instacart.com

This grocery and bottle delivery service truly makes you feel like you're stepping into the store yourself, making your selections based on the best brands and deals available, and choosing alternative options as necessary (you can select a specific substitution for items in your cart, have your shopper choose for you, or have them refund the item altogether if it's not in stock). In terms of selection, you can choose from a handful of different participating shops in your area, each of which will offer pickup, delivery, or both. There are various fees based on delivery timing (e.g., same-day delivery) and the total purchase cost. Heavy items will incur an additional fee.

If you think you'll use Instacart regularly, you can join Instacart Express for $9.99 per month, which grants free same-day delivery on orders over $35 and a discounted service fee. There's a small fee added to orders with alcohol, although that is also reduced for Express members. It sounds like a lot of fees, and they can certainly add up if you stack them, but shopping wisely and maximizing your grocery and booze orders makes the convenience of using Instacart well worth it.

Buy on Usualwines.com

If you're drawn to pretty packaging and prefer your wine bottles in a single-serving format, Usual Wines is an ideal option for you—and it makes a great gift too. You can choose from various bottles, each of which holds 6.3 ounces of wine—a very healthy pour—made from sustainably farmed California grapes and without the addition of sugar or sulfites.

Among Usual Wines' offerings are a red, rosé, brut sparkling, brut sparkling rosé, and a limited edition 2016 reserve Cabernet Sauvignon as well as a canned guava spritz. When you shop from the core collection (red, rosé, and brut sparkling), you'll choose from a one-time purchase of either six, 12, 18, or 24 glasses (12 or 24 for mixed packs), or you can subscribe for monthly deliveries of your selected quantity for a 17 percent discount with a minimum commitment of two months. Most of the boxes above the six-glass option include shipping, and all boxes are sent via UPS or FedEx. Usual Wines does not ship to several states, so check that list on its website before starting your order.

Buy on Saucey.com

Saucey is a Los Angeles-based booze delivery service that caters to its home base as well as other significant areas across the country, including Dallas, Miami, New York City, Orlando, Chicago, Palm Springs, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, D.C., to name a few. One of Saucey’s main draws is its promise to never charge you a membership or delivery fee or require an order minimum.

With this service, you can shop spirits, wines, beers, and cocktail accouterments from one streamlined selection based on your location instead of shopping from local stores, each with its own minimum, on other shopping platforms. The best part is that you can have your order delivered in as little as 30 minutes, which is the most impressive delivery window of all of the on-demand liquor delivery services we’ve seen or tested. You also can easily send a gift to someone else in the form of a bottle or a Saucey gift card via the website’s gift tab.

Buy on Sippd.com

If you've ever dreamed of having a personal sommelier button right on your browser window, Sippd is your answer. Downloading the free Chrome extension gives you access to a broad wine database powered by Wine.com that shows you which bottles best suit your palate and how to pair them, all while enabling you to order in just a few clicks.

Sippd uses a personalized scoring system of 1–100. The higher the number, the better the match. Once you've tasted your wines, you can go back to Sippd and rate them to help inform your future personalized picks. The catch is that you'll have to rate three wines you've tasted in the past before the extension can do its thing, so this might not be the best option for those who don't quite know how they feel about their past experiences with wine. However, it's a perfect opportunity to experiment to discover and broaden your palate.

When you've found your match, purchasing is a relatively simple process. From within the Sippd extension, just click the price button, and it'll take you straight to the bottle page on Wine.com, where you can load up your cart. Delivery fees at Wine.com can be steep, but if you join the StewardShip club for $49, you'll get free delivery for a year.