Product attributes
The category-specific fields that make SKU identity meaningful.
- Brand, expression and age statement
- Vintage, appellation and varietal
- ABV, volume format and pack
- Cask type and production method
That respect how fragmented this market really is.
A national average price for beverage alcohol is close to meaningless. The service is built around jurisdiction-level reality and listing presence, which is what brands actually lack.
Free pilot on your own sources, returned in 48 hours. No card, no trial clock — and you keep the sample data either way.
Last verified 5 August 2026 by the Actowiz Solutions Data Engineering team.
Wine, spirits and liquor data covers the same fundamentals as any retail pricing dataset — price, availability, promotion — but the category imposes four structural complications that generic retail extraction handles badly.
In most retail categories a product is a product. In wine, the same label in a different vintage is a different product with a different price and different critical reception. In spirits, the same expression appears in 500ml, 700ml and 1L formats, at different ABVs for different markets, sometimes as a travel-retail exclusive. Matching on brand name alone collapses distinctions that determine price. Our SKU key incorporates brand, expression, vintage, volume and ABV, because anything less produces meaningless comparisons.
In the United States, alcohol distribution operates under a three-tier system with state-level control, and in control states the state itself is the retailer. Pricing, permitted channels and even which products may be listed vary by state and sometimes by county. A national price average for beverage alcohol in the US is close to meaningless. Our schema treats jurisdiction as a first-class dimension rather than an afterthought.
Restaurant and bar pricing bears little relationship to retail. Markups vary by venue tier, by format (glass versus bottle), and by category. For brands, on-trade presence is often a more important brand-building signal than off-trade volume, and it is nearly invisible without systematic collection of venue drink lists.
For most beverage alcohol brands the critical question is not "what is our price" but "are we actually listed in this market at all". Distribution gaps — markets where a SKU should be available and isn't — are usually worth more commercially than price optimisation. We treat listing presence as a measured output, not a by-product.
Built with importers and brand teams who need distribution visibility as much as pricing visibility.
The category-specific fields that make SKU identity meaningful.
Retail pricing across the channels where volume sits.
Venue pricing, which drives brand perception more than retail.
The fastest-growing channel and the one with the least visibility.
Where a SKU is actually listed, by market and jurisdiction.
The critical and consumer reception that drives premium pricing.
Pricing, category attributes and distribution presence across three channels, in one managed engagement.
Every engagement delivers a documented schema. These are the core fields; the full dictionary is agreed during scoping.
| Field | Type | What it captures | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
sku_key |
string | Composite identity from brand, expression, vintage, volume and ABV | Every run |
brand / expression |
string | Brand and specific expression or label name | Weekly |
category / subcategory |
enum | Wine, spirits, beer, cider, RTD, plus subcategory such as whisky or gin | Weekly |
vintage / age_statement |
int / string | Vintage year for wine, age statement for spirits where declared | Weekly |
abv_pct / volume_ml |
decimal / int | Alcohol by volume percentage and container size in millilitres | Weekly |
appellation / origin_region |
string | Legal appellation and region of origin as labelled | Weekly |
channel |
enum | off_trade, on_trade, delivery or marketplace | Every run |
state / province / county |
string | Jurisdiction, treated as a first-class dimension given regulatory variation | Every run |
price / price_per_litre |
decimal | Observed price and normalised per-litre price for cross-format comparison | Daily |
price_glass / price_bottle |
decimal | On-trade pricing by serving format, with markup versus retail benchmark | Weekly |
listed / first_seen / delisted_at |
boolean / date | Listing presence with first-seen and delisting detection per market | Every run |
Price-per-litre normalisation makes cross-format comparison possible, which matters in a category where the same product ships in four container sizes at non-proportional prices.
Beverage alcohol retail is highly regionalised, so coverage is built market by market rather than through a global template.
Coverage respects local regulation on alcohol e-commerce, which differs sharply by jurisdiction. Where a market prohibits online alcohol retail, there is no online data to collect and we say so. Request a source we don't list →
We deliver into 40+ countries. These are the markets where this particular service is requested most, and the reason demand concentrates there.
| Market | Why demand concentrates here |
|---|---|
| United States | Three-tier distribution and state-level control make jurisdictional data essential. |
| United Kingdom | Dense off-trade competition plus a large, publicly listed on-trade sector. |
| Nordics & Canada | State monopoly retail with fully published catalogues and pricing. |
| Australia & India | Fast premiumisation with rapidly changing distribution footprints. |
We run production collection across 40+ countries. Coverage depth varies by market and by source, so we confirm what is actually available for your specific markets during scoping rather than claiming uniform global coverage. Ask about a market we don't list →
Importers and brand owners dominate, because distribution visibility is the category's hardest problem.
You do not know which markets actually stock your SKUs, at what price, or where distributor commitments have quietly failed to materialise.
Listing presence by market and retailer with delisting detection, plus pricing so you can see where positioning has drifted from strategy.
Distribution coverage %
Portfolio pricing across states and retailers is impossible to monitor manually, and retailer price erosion damages brand positioning before anyone notices.
Daily off-trade pricing across your portfolio by state and retailer, with promotional activity and per-litre normalisation for cross-format comparison.
Price integrity
Range and pricing decisions need a view of competitor assortment and price architecture that manual store checks cannot supply.
Competitor assortment with full category attributes and price bands, revealing range gaps and price-tier over-indexing.
Category margin
On-premise presence drives brand equity, but venue list placement is invisible without physically visiting venues.
Venue drink list extraction showing where your SKUs appear, at what price and format, alongside which competitors share the list.
On-trade listings
Price architecture across formats and markets drifts over time, and detecting it requires normalised data nobody maintains.
Per-litre normalised pricing across all formats and markets, so architecture violations and format cannibalisation become visible.
Price architecture integrity
Premiumisation and category-shift theses need observable price and distribution data, not annual industry reports.
Longitudinal price and distribution panels by category, price tier and market, delivered as modelling-ready series.
Signal lead time
Four patterns, with measured outcomes.
Listing presence is tracked per SKU per retailer per jurisdiction, so markets where a SKU should be available but isn't become visible immediately. Delisting detection flags where existing distribution has quietly lapsed — usually the more expensive problem, since it is easy to miss.
Outcome: Distributor conversations grounded in observed listing data rather than depletion reports alone.
Daily off-trade pricing across states and retailers, with per-litre normalisation, reveals where retailers have discounted below intended positioning. Because jurisdiction is a first-class dimension, permitted state-level variation is separated from genuine erosion.
Outcome: Price positioning defended market by market rather than judged against a meaningless national average.
Venue drink lists are extracted and structured, showing which of your SKUs appear on which lists, at what glass and bottle price, and which competitors occupy adjacent slots on the same list.
Outcome: On-trade activation measured against competitors instead of estimated from sales rep reporting.
Price tier distribution and assortment mix are tracked longitudinally by category and market, showing whether premium tiers are gaining shelf share and where the growth is concentrated.
Outcome: Category theses tested against observed shelf and price data rather than annual industry commentary.
Clients rarely permit naming. These are real engagement shapes with identifying detail removed, so you can judge whether the work resembles your situation.
Depletion reports showed volume moving, but the importer could not tell how many retailers in each state actually stocked its SKUs.
Listing presence tracking per SKU per retailer per state, with delisting detection and per-litre normalised pricing across formats.
Distribution gaps became visible by state, changing the basis of distributor conversations.
The producer's brand strategy depended on on-premise listings but had no systematic view of which venues actually listed its wines.
Venue drink list collection across published on-trade lists, with glass and bottle pricing and markup against a retail benchmark.
On-trade listings were measured rather than estimated, including competitor share of the same lists.
Examples are anonymised at client request. Named references are available on request under NDA. See published case studies →
Before you commit to anything, we run this service against your own sources and send you the output. If the coverage isn't there, the sample will show you that too — which is the point. We would rather lose the deal at the pilot than at month three.
Same collection pipeline and same QA underneath. The difference is who holds the schedule and how the data reaches you.
We own the collection, the QA and the delivery. You receive clean data on a schedule and never touch a scraper.
Best fit: Teams who need the data, not the infrastructure.
The same collection pipeline exposed as an authenticated REST endpoint your systems query directly.
Best fit: Product and engineering teams building on live data.
A defined pull for a specific question — market sizing, diligence, a pitch, a one-off audit.
Best fit: Research, strategy and diligence work with a deadline.
Every engagement is quoted individually, because the honest answer depends on your scope: how many sources, how many records, how often, and how the data reaches you. We scope it with you, run a free pilot on your own sources, and then quote a fixed monthly figure — no per-request metering and no overage billing when volumes move. Request a quote and you will have a number after one call.
SKU identity and jurisdictional fragmentation are what make this category expensive to run well.
| Consideration | In-house scraping team | Generic proxy / DIY tool | Actowiz managed feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first usable data | 6–12 weeks of engineering before anything is trustworthy | Days, but output needs manual cleanup before use | Free pilot in 48 hours, production in 5–10 business days |
| Who fixes it when a source changes | Your engineers, at the cost of their roadmap | You do — tools report failures, they don't resolve them | We do, same business day, inside the retainer |
| Data quality assurance | Whatever your team has time to build | None beyond HTTP success | Schema validation plus sampled human QA on every run |
| Compliance documentation | Rarely produced, then requested urgently by legal | Not provided; terms risk sits with you | Sources, method and lawful basis documented for review |
| Accountability | Distributed across a team with other priorities | A support ticket queue | A named engineer and an account owner |
| True annual cost | Engineer salaries, proxies, hosting, ongoing maintenance | Low licence fee plus significant hidden analyst time | One fixed monthly retainer, quoted after scoping |
In most consumer categories, competitive data buyers start with price. In beverage alcohol, the teams that get most value start with presence — and the reason is structural.
Under a three-tier system, a brand owner does not control retail listings. A distributor commits to placing a SKU in a market, and whether that actually happens across the retail base is largely invisible from the brand's side. Depletion reports show volume moving out of the distributor's warehouse. They do not show whether your SKU is on the shelf at 400 stores or 40.
We treat listing presence as a measured field with first-seen and delisted-at timestamps, not as something inferred from price availability. It is the field most clients end up building their reporting around, even when they arrived asking for pricing.
Beverage alcohol has a SKU proliferation problem that few other categories share, and getting identity wrong quietly corrupts every downstream analysis.
Our SKU key is composite: brand, expression, vintage or age statement, volume and ABV. Every component is extracted as its own field, so you can aggregate at whatever level your analysis needs — brand level for share of shelf, SKU level for pricing, format level for architecture work.
Where a listing is too ambiguous to resolve confidently, it carries a low match confidence rather than being forced into an existing key. In a category with this much legitimate SKU variation, a confident wrong match is far more damaging than an acknowledged uncertain one.
Market, channel and SKU scope is agreed first, with regulatory constraints on data availability flagged upfront.
You send us target sites, regions, SKUs or keywords. We return a field-level schema proposal, coverage estimate and refresh recommendation — usually within two working days.
We extract a real sample from your actual targets so you can inspect field fill rates, edge cases and match quality before any commitment.
Our engineers build extractors, then wire validation rules: type checks, range checks, duplicate detection and golden-record comparison against a manually verified subset.
Feeds run at your chosen cadence and land in the warehouse or bucket you already use. Schema changes are versioned and announced before they ship.
We watch coverage drift, fill rates and source changes daily. A named engineer owns your account, and layout breaks are fixed by us — not queued for you.
JSON, JSONL, CSV, Parquet or XLSX, delivered to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, SFTP, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks or a REST/GraphQL endpoint. Webhooks fire on completion, and every batch ships with a manifest containing row counts, schema version and QA results so your pipeline can fail loudly instead of silently ingesting a bad file.
We collect only publicly accessible retail and venue listings, and we respect jurisdictional restrictions on alcohol e-commerce. Where a market prohibits online alcohol retail there is no data to collect, and we tell you that rather than substituting a proxy. Age-gated pages are handled without misrepresenting user status, and collection methodology is documented per market.
These are contractual, not marketing copy. They appear in the engagement document.
| Commitment | What we hold ourselves to |
|---|---|
| Pilot turnaround | A real sample from your own sources within 48 hours of scoping, at no cost. |
| Go-live | Production collection running within 5–10 business days of sign-off. |
| Delivery punctuality | 99.5% on-schedule delivery, measured monthly and reported to you. |
| Breakage response | Source layout changes triaged same business day; critical sources inside 4 hours. |
| Data quality | Schema validation on every run plus sampled human QA before any delivery leaves us. |
| Escalation | A named engineer and an account owner, not a shared ticket queue. |
| Change requests | Field additions and source changes handled inside the retainer, not re-quoted. |
| Exit | Your historical data exported in full on request. No lock-in, no export fee. |
Plain definitions of the terms used on this page, so procurement and legal reviewers are working from the same vocabulary as your data team.
What buyers ask during evaluation.
Yes — jurisdiction is a first-class dimension in our schema rather than an afterthought, precisely because a national US average for beverage alcohol is close to meaningless.
We collect from state control-board sites where the state is the retailer, from chain retailers with state-level pricing, and from delivery platforms where availability varies by zone. Every record carries state and, where pricing varies below state level, county. This lets you distinguish permitted regulatory variation from genuine price erosion, which a national average makes impossible.
Through a composite SKU key that includes brand, expression, vintage or age statement, volume in millilitres and ABV, with each component also available as a standalone field.
This matters more here than in most categories. Averaging a 2016 and a 2019 vintage, or a 700ml and a 1L format, produces a figure that describes no actual product. Because components are separate fields, you can aggregate at brand, expression, vintage or format level depending on what the analysis needs.
Yes, where venues publish drink lists online — which a growing share do. We extract by-the-glass and bottle pricing, the SKUs listed, and venue tier classification, then compute markup against a retail benchmark for the same SKU.
Coverage is inherently partial: many venues publish no list, and some publish PDFs that change without notice. We are explicit about coverage rates per market during scoping. Even partial on-trade visibility is usually far better than the alternative, which is sales-rep estimates.
The collection itself is not fundamentally different — publicly accessible pricing pages are publicly accessible. What differs is the regulatory environment around alcohol commerce, which varies sharply by jurisdiction and affects what data exists at all.
We handle age-gated pages without misrepresenting user status, respect jurisdictional restrictions on alcohol e-commerce, and document methodology per market. Where a market prohibits online alcohol retail there is simply no online data to collect, and we tell you rather than substituting a proxy that looks like coverage.
Yes, and this is usually the most valuable output. We track listing presence per SKU per retailer per jurisdiction, so gaps — markets or retailers where a SKU should be present and isn't — are directly visible rather than inferred.
Delisting detection is included: when a previously listed SKU disappears, it is flagged with a delisted_at timestamp. Quiet delistings are common and rarely notified by anyone, which makes them one of the more expensive blind spots in the category.
We extract retailer-displayed review counts, average ratings and consumer review text, plus critic scores and award mentions where retailers display them on the listing.
We do not extract proprietary critic databases. Those are licensed products with their own terms, and taking them would be both a rights problem and a poor service to you, since it would arrive undocumented. Where you hold a licence for a critic database, our data joins to it cleanly on our SKU key.
Less than general electronics, more than you might expect. Off-trade pricing moves on promotional cycles, typically weekly to fortnightly, with sharper activity around holidays. Delivery platform pricing moves faster and discounts more aggressively. On-trade lists change on a scale of months.
We recommend daily for off-trade and delivery, weekly for on-trade venue lists, and weekly for attribute refresh. Vintage transitions are the exception worth watching closely — when a retailer switches vintage, price often shifts materially, and a weekly cadence can miss the transition point.
Partially, and honestly this is a limitation rather than a capability. In markets with restricted or prohibited online alcohol retail, off-trade pricing data may not exist online at all. Where physical retail publishes no pricing, there is nothing to extract.
What sometimes remains: on-trade venue lists, control-board catalogues, and price lists published by regulatory authorities. We assess this market by market during scoping and tell you plainly where coverage will be thin or absent, rather than promising a global schema and delivering nulls in half the markets.
We quote every beverage alcohol data engagement individually, because a real number depends on scope: source count, record volume, refresh frequency and delivery method. Anyone quoting you a price before understanding those four things is guessing.
Market count and channel mix drive cost. On-trade venue list collection carries a premium because it is more labour-intensive per source.
The process is short: one scoping call, a free pilot on your own sources within 48 hours, then a fixed monthly quote. No per-request metering, no overage billing, and field or source additions are handled inside the retainer rather than re-quoted. Request a quote.
Send us a SKU list and your target markets. We return real pricing and listing-presence data with full category attributes within 48 hours, at no cost.
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