Wine industry websites
Websites built for
wineries, importers, and wine retailers.
Eight wine and beverage clients shipped. We know the things generic agencies have to research from scratch — age-gates, US state-by-state DTC shipping rules, SAQ compliance in Quebec, multi-region pricing, bilingual EN/FR storefronts. Boutique studio in Montreal, working with wine clients across North America.
Shipped for
Eight wine and beverage clients, in production.
What wine sites actually need
Things generic web studios learn the hard way.
Age-gate that doesn't tank conversion
Compliance is non-negotiable, but the typical "giant white modal on first visit" wrecks Core Web Vitals and bounce rate. We use lightweight, geo-aware age-gates that satisfy the legal requirement without taxing performance or LCP.
US state-by-state DTC shipping rules
Each US state has its own direct-to-consumer wine shipping rules — some allow it, some require licensing, some ban it outright. We wire shipping rate logic that filters by destination state in real time, with clear messaging when an order can't legally ship.
SAQ + Canadian provincial rules
In Quebec, the SAQ has the monopoly on wine imports — your storefront, fulfillment, and tax treatment all need to respect that. Other provinces (BC private liquor, Alberta open market, etc.) each have their own rules. We've shipped under all of them.
Bilingual EN/FR storefront, done right
Quebec wine buyers expect French; the rest of Canada and the US expect English. Bilingual storefronts done as an afterthought ship with weird fallbacks (English on a French page, French URLs that don't translate, broken hreflang). Our default architecture handles all of it from day 1.
Wine-specific product data
Vintage, region, varietal, ABV, allergens, format, awards — wine SKUs need fields a generic Shopify catalog doesn't have. We model them properly so search, filtering, and product detail pages all work the way a wine buyer actually shops.
Performance for image-heavy catalogs
Wine sites live on bottle photography. We optimize at the image-pipeline level (responsive sizes, AVIF, lazy loading below the fold, Cloudflare image transforms) so a 200-bottle catalog doesn't tank LCP on mobile.
Common questions
Do you only work with wine clients?
No — we work across industries. The wine vertical just happens to be where we have the deepest portfolio (8 clients shipped). The expertise transfers to other regulated retail verticals (spirits, beer, cannabis-adjacent), and the rest of our work is in regular SMB and B2B.
Can you migrate a wine store from another platform?
Yes — we've done WooCommerce → Shopify, custom PHP → headless Shopify, and Shopify → Shopify (consolidating multiple regional storefronts). Wine-specific complications (vintage data, license docs, age-gate config) we've already solved before.
Do you handle US wine shipping compliance directly?
We build the storefront-side enforcement (state filtering, age verification, license display); you'll need a fulfillment partner or in-house compliance officer for the actual shipping logistics. We can recommend the partners our existing wine clients use.
Can the site handle a winery's CSA / wine club / subscription?
Yes. Subscriptions, club tiers, allocation lists, founders' pre-sales — all standard Shopify Subscriptions territory with some custom logic for the wine-specific bits (vintage allocation, club-only product visibility). We've shipped this for two of the wine clients in our portfolio.
Get a price
See what your wine site or storefront would cost.
Two minutes, a few questions about catalog size, plugin needs, and migration scope. Real CAD range — the same scope-by-scope logic we used to quote the wine clients in the portfolio above.
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