West Virginia

ABC state, but controls only wholesaling and distribution of hard liquor to licensed private retailers; wines sales privatized in 1981, state-run retail sales repealed in 1990; state has 178 privately-owned retail liquor outlets (2016); uses bidding process for liquor outlets and has then rebids every 10 years; licensed private suppliers and distributors handle wine; beer sold under franchise agreement system; licensed winery or wine retailer that obtains a “shipper’s license” may directly send up to two cases of wine per month to a customer’s home; “All advertising of wine which encourages intemperance, makes the consumption of alcoholic liquor appear to be glamorous, is lewd or obscene, induces minors to purchase, or tends to deceive or misrepresent, is hereby prohibited”; “nonintoxicating beer” is defined as beer with between 0.05 and 12 percent alcohol by volume; state in 2016 passed “brunch law” for on-premises sales of alcoholic drinks starting at 10 a.m. Sundays.