Sales from Fine White Wine & & Spirits shops in Lancaster County dipped in the most recent fiscal year however were still well above levels from prior to the pandemic, the Pennsylvania Alcohol Control panel’s yearly report shows.For the fiscal year ending June 30, the 20 shops in Lancaster County registered $78.4 million in sales, down 1.5 %from the previous year. However, the most current yearly sales figures are still 11.5 %higher than 2018-19, the last full sales year prior to the pandemic.For Lancaster County’s Fine Wine & Good Spirit shops,
the pandemic developed a sales seesaw after shops were closed for a month and a half in spring 2020 and after that rebounded highly. For fiscal year 2019-20, overall retail sales plunged to$62.3 million at Lancaster County stores– a drop of 11.2%from the previous year– prior to rising 28 %the next year to $79.5 million. For the most current fiscal year, sales in surrounding counties all rose somewhat, with York up 1.7%, Berks up 2.75%; Chester up 5%; Dauphin up 2.2% and Lebanon up 0.7%.
The PLCB’s published figures on private county sales consist of those to retail consumers– which represent 75% of sales– as well as ones to dining establishments, bars and other alcohol license holders, which consist of 25%.
The general sales decrease at Lancaster County shops is reflective of the decline throughout the state for overall sales to retail clients, which reduced 3.4% in the most recent fiscal year, dropping from $2.2 billion to $2.12 billion. Those figures leave out sales to liquor license holders.
“The change shows a return to ‘near typical’ pre-pandemic buying patterns,” the yearly report says.In Lancaster County, a portion of the total annual sales decrease might be attributed to the month-long closure for restorations of stores in Lancaster city and Ephrata. The year-to-year sales decrease at those 2 stores alone totaled up to $640 million, majority the $1.2 million countywide sales decline.Buying routines detailed Released in October, the PLCB’s yearly report provides insight into buying routines and choices of consumers statewide as well as in each county. The report information top-selling products, busiest stores and most popular products while offering a county-by-county breakdown of most popular product categories.Mini bottles of Fireball Cinnamon Scotch were once again the top selling single product statewide
with more than 4.6 million 50-milliliter bottles purchased at 588 state-owned alcohol shops. Mini bottles of New Amsterdam Vodka were the second-highest seller, with 1.6 million sold.Third on the list of top selling products statewide were large bottles of Tito’s Handmade Vodka which created$50 million– the most for any single item
— through the sale of more than 1.4 countless the 1.75-liter bottles. The 1-liter and 750 milliliter bottles of Tito’s Handmade Vodka ranked fourth and 5th with each offering around 1.3 million bottles.La Marca Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine, was the leading selling wine, creating$11.7 million through the sale of 778,000 bottles. Other top selling red wines were Cavit Pinot Grigio, Kendall-Jackson Vintner’s Reserve Chardonnay, Apothic Red Winemakers Blend and Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi Chardonnay.The PLCB’s yearly report does not break out leading selling products by county, although it does provide leading classification classifications by county. Lancaster County was amongst 52 counties where unflavored vodka was the leading seller. In the other 15 counties– mainly in the center of the state– American scotch was the leading selling category.Lancaster County was one of 34 counties where the leading selling wine classification was California cabernet sauvignon. In 24 counties– primarily in the center and northern parts of the state– box red wine was the leading seller. Beverage white wine was chosen in 3 counties– Greene, Cambria and Northumberland– and California chardonnay was preferred in Chester, Adams, Union, Snyder, Montour and Columbia counties.The busiest retailer in Lancaster County was the Great Wine & Good Spirts at 1565 Fruitville Pike in The Shoppes at Belmont, which registered $12.7 million in sales. The 2nd busiest was the Lititz shop at 1036 Lititz Pike in The Shoppes at Kissel Village that made$9 million in sales. The Lancaster County shop with the most affordable sales quantity was the Gap store at 5360 Lincoln Highway in the Village at Gap shopping center which had$1.2 million in sales. & Success! An e-mail has actually been sent with a link to confirm list signup. Mistake! There was a mistake processing your demand.