Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada

Very helpful staff. It was my first time picking up beer through will call. it was like Tetris, they managed to help me fit 24 boxes into a sedan. FIVE STARS DAMMIT!

Our biggest purveyor of a wide variety of liquor! Yes, Im a fan.

Did you know that if you’re drinking a Corona, that you bought anywhere in the state of Nevada, it made its first stop, after the factory, at Southern Wine & Spirits? Same goes for Skyy Vodka, Patron, Fiji Water, and a bevy of other beverages, seeing as SWS has 15,000 SKUs in their system. They distribute 75% of the beverages here in Nevada. Insanity.
I went here for a tour this morning (6÷1÷11) on a hospitality purchasing field trip. I’m not sure the general public can get a tour, but regardless, the tour was great. It was mind-​blowing to see the sheer volume of alcohol on hand in this place.
Imagine how many Coronas, say, a casino might go through in a day — a lot right? Now multiply that by all the casinos. That’s even more! Now add up all the grocery, warehouse and convenience stores that sell them… and then multiply that by 35 – 45 days. Yeah, SWS keeps between 35 – 45 days worth Nevada’s consumption of Corona, in their warehouse. It’s the craziest thing I’ve seen — the total number of Corona pallets are easily double the size of an average family home here in Vegas.
They say everything is bigger in Texas, no. Everything in Vegas is bigger. Imagine 3 or 4 Costcos, turned into liquor refrigerators; that’s what SWS is like. One «Costco» is at 58*F (+$ 10/​bottle) and the other «Costco» is at 68*F (Less than $ 10 /​bottle) I can’t imagine their electric bills.
As we (our class) ate flaxseed waffles, fruit salad and banana bread, made by the head chef at SWS (yum!) we listened to really friendly people from SWS tell us some cray-​cray stories about the kinda stuff they go through to get high rollers some rare wines at the drop of a hat, the legal red tape (that most of us didn’t know existed) of buying, selling and distributing alcohol in the US and how to secure and manage a place that’s so imperative to the success of Las Vegas.
If you have the chance to go here and listen to a presentation and go on a tour, DO IT! It was an eye-​opening and interesting way to spend a few hours this morning.