The work of one badass Black woman from Chicago, Love Cork Screw is more than just wine. It’s a whole mood.
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✓ 3 competition medals for Head Over Heels Riesling✓ Top African American Vintners, Wine Business 2025✓ 1,000+ stores nationwide
Who We Are
Love Cork Screw is a Chicago wine brand with a fresh take on what wine for this generation should be – fun, inclusive, simple and delicious. Our unique selection of award-winning premium red, white, and rosé varietals are more than wine, they’re a whole mood.
How we make our wine: Love Cork Screw is a négociant brand. We don’t own vineyards – we partner with established family wineries to select, blend and bottle wines under the Love Cork Screw label. Our partners include E2 Family Winery in Lodi, California and Fenn Valley Vineyards in Fennville, Michigan. Every wine is personally chosen and approved by founder Chrishon Lampley, and each one is named after a feeling, not a grape.
Our Story
After a flood destroyed founder Chrishon Lampley’s Chicago art and wine bar, she was forced to start over. Her first step was to continue to channel her passion for wine and her passion for connecting with people through a blog she called Love Cork Screw.
She started sharing lifestyle tips, wine picks, and restaurant recommendations, quickly becoming a go-to source for her growing audience. However, she noticed a disconnect; despite the enthusiasm, many people felt out of place in the wine scene. There’s a common myth that wine has to be fancy or expensive to be good, that there are too many stiff rules about how to drink it, and even the names are overwhelming. She realized there was a big opportunity to break down these barriers and make wine more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
So, through the community she had built in her bar, her blog and her own experiences she found her new passion – to make wine fun, easy and inclusive. Her vision for Love Cork Screw became about creating something that everyone and anyone could connect to. No rules, no pressure, no expectations. Just good quality, easy-to-understand, easy-to-drink wine.
She launched with six varietals in December 2013. Today Love Cork Screw has sold more than 2 million bottles and is carried in more than 1,000 retail doors nationwide, including Kroger, H-E-B, Meijer, Mariano’s, Total Wine & More, Binny’s, Vino Volo, Chicago Midway Airport and the Obama Presidential Center.
The Woman Behind the Wine
“I am on a mission to break every glass ceiling and inspire inclusivity and change in an industry that’s traditionally male-dominated.” – Chrishon Lampley
If there’s two things founder and CEO of Love Cork Screw, Chrishon Lampley has a knack for, it’s discovering great, quality vineyards from around the world and building a welcoming community – and Love Cork Screw brings them both together with a mission to not only reinvent the wine industry but to create a more inclusive and sustainable experience for all.
Her journey in the wine industry, where Black women represent just 1%, ignited a passion to reshape it into a more diverse, welcoming space. Beyond her business pursuits, as Vice President of the Association of African American Vintners (AAAV), she champions the representation and growth of Black professionals in the field.
Chrishon holds the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines, completed executive education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and has spoken on the TEDx stage. Love Cork Screw is a certified MBE, WBE and WOSB.
Out & About
Good Company
From jazz festivals in Napa to private celebrations, Love Cork Screw shows up where the good times are.
Award-Winning
Awards & Recognition
Great wine, not just a great story. Our Head Over Heels Sweet Riesling has earned three competition medals.
SILVER
San Diego International Wine & Spirits Challenge
Head Over Heels Sweet Riesling
SILVER
Sommeliers Choice Awards 2024
Head Over Heels Sweet Riesling
BRONZE
USA Wine Ratings 2024
Head Over Heels Sweet Riesling · Beverage Trade Network
Chicago SkyWomen’s History Spotlight, 2026
Wine BusinessTop African American Vintners, 2025
Wine EnthusiastGlobal Guide to Black-Owned Wine Labels
For Trade
Our Distribution Partners
2M+Bottles sold
1,000+Retail doors
22 + D.C.States distributed
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Fuego FinoArizona · Washington
LibDibCalifornia · Connecticut · Florida · Maryland · New Jersey · New York · Pennsylvania
Hedon StateWashington, D.C.
Maverick BeverageIllinois · Minnesota
Vino IndianaIndiana
HeidelbergKentucky · Ohio
International Wine & SpiritsLouisiana
Great Lakes Wine & SpiritsMichigan
Pinnacle ImportsMissouri
Shoe CrazyNorth Carolina · Virginia
Provisions Fine Beverage PurveyorsOklahoma
Empire DistributionTennessee
Branwar Wine DistributingTexas
Retailers, restaurants and airport concessions — let’s talk. We’re actively adding partners in Georgia, South Carolina and Nevada.
Contact Chrishon@lovecorkscrew.com
Contact Chrishon@lovecorkscrew.com
The Clink & Sip Festival
In partnership with Joyce Dawkins of She ROCKS It, Lampley co-founded the Clink & Sip Festival in Chicago. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the wine and spirits industry. Now operating under the Sip & Empower Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the festival has grown into a platform that addresses the exposure gap faced by minority-owned businesses and elevates underrepresented voices across the industry.
"Love Cork Screw allowed me to pursue my passion for wine despite the odds, but it's more than just wine, it's a mood! We are a proud Black female-owned business that fosters a sense of inclusivity, diversity and transparency with a mission to truly make a difference in the wine industry, but also to create a fun, playful and relatable take on the wine world for everyone to enjoy."
