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Bee D'Vine Honey Wine

Status: active as of 2026-09-09

Also known as: Bee d'Vine, The Honey Wine Company, The Honey Wine Company LLC

Bee d’Vine remains an operating honey-wine brand of The Honey Wine Company, LLC. The official store is currently taking orders and describes wine made from raw honey and spring water; California alcohol-licensing records also list The Honey Wine Company LLC. Ayele Solomon accepted a rare four-Shark $750,000-for-40% offer on air, but later reporting says the deal never closed, so the tracker separates the televised agreement from the post-show closing question.

Shark Tank appearance

Dated timeline

DateEventEvidence
2012-02-21 A federal trademark record identifies The Honey Wine Company LLC in connection with the BEE D'VINE mark; the company's exact formation date is not inferred from the trademark date. S-BEE-TM
2020-11-13 Ayele Solomon presented Bee d'Vine on Shark Tank and accepted the four-Shark on-air offer. S-BEE-VIDEO, S-BEE-OFFICIAL
2021-07-01 Later Shark Tank follow-up coverage reported that the four-Shark deal never closed while the company remained in business. S-BEE-BLOG
2026-09-09 The official site continues to offer honey wines for online purchase and provides dispatch and customer-support channels; California ABC records list The Honey Wine Company LLC. S-BEE-CURRENT, S-BEE-ABC

Legal and entity identity

Legal entities
The Honey Wine Company, LLC
Aliases
Bee d'Vine, The Honey Wine Company, The Honey Wine Company LLC
Successor/acquirer
None verified

California alcohol licensing

The Honey Wine Company LLC · 591936 · listed

  • California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control designated-licensee list includes The Honey Wine Company LLC

Limitation: This is a government alcohol-licensing record, not a direct California Secretary of State entity-status certificate; the listed license does not independently establish all corporate standing or current retail activity.

California ABC designated licensee list · accessed 2026-09-09

Notable findings and disputes

  1. strong corroboration Bee d'Vine is operating as a current honey-wine brand with an online store and customer-support channels. [ S-BEE-CURRENT, S-BEE-OFFICIAL ]
  2. verified fact The Honey Wine Company, LLC is the legal identity named in the federal BEE D'VINE trademark record and in California alcohol-licensing material. [ S-BEE-TM, S-BEE-ABC ]
  3. credible report Ayele Solomon accepted a $750,000-for-40% four-Shark offer on air, but later reporting says the deal never closed. [ S-BEE-OFFICIAL, S-BEE-VIDEO, S-BEE-BLOG ]
  4. unresolved The public record supports continued operation but does not reveal why the televised investment failed to close. [ S-BEE-CURRENT, S-BEE-BLOG ]

What we could not verify

  • The bounded Wayback query was rate-limited in this pass, so no complete archived-page diff is claimed.
  • The government record confirms an alcohol license listing, but a direct Secretary of State certificate of status was not retrieved.
  • The reason the four-Shark deal failed to close is not established by the sources reviewed.

Full research sources

  1. S-BEE-CURRENT — Bee d'Vine — current honey wine store official company page accessed 2026-09-09

    Current products, dispatch and support; page was accessible through search indexing but direct fetch returned 403 in this pass.

  2. S-BEE-OFFICIAL — Bee d'Vine Honey Wine Featured on Shark Tank dated official company article published 2020-11-13 accessed 2026-09-09

    Company account of the pitch and offer.

  3. S-BEE-ABC — California ABC designated licensee list state government licensing record accessed 2026-09-09

    Lists The Honey Wine Company LLC under license number 591936.

  4. S-BEE-TM — BEE D'VINE — USPTO Official Gazette federal trademark publication published 2014-09-30 accessed 2026-09-09

    Federal publication identifies The Honey Wine Company LLC DBA The Honey Wine Company.

  5. S-BEE-BLOG — Bee D'Vine Shark Tank update — Shark Tank Blog secondary follow-up published 2025-06-18 accessed 2026-09-09

    Reports that the deal never closed; retained as secondary evidence.

  6. S-BEE-VIDEO — Bee D'Vine Honey Wine Gets a 4-Shark Offer — ABC official video published 2020-11-13 accessed 2026-09-09

    ABC clip for the four-Shark offer.

  7. S-BEE-CORP-PORTAL — California business search portal state registry portal accessed 2026-09-09

    Direct Secretary of State entity-record retrieval was not completed in this pass.

Status-Verification Sources

  1. Bee d’Vine — current honey wine store (beedvine.com) 2026
    The current official site offers Bee d’Vine wines for online purchase, lists dispatch and support channels, and identifies Ayele Solomon as winemaker.
  2. Bee d’Vine Honey Wine Featured on Shark Tank (beedvine.com) 2020-11-13
    The dated company account describes Ayele Solomon’s 2020 Shark Tank pitch and the four-Shark offer.
  3. California ABC designated licensee list (abc.ca.gov) 2026
    The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control list includes The Honey Wine Company LLC with license number 591936.
  4. BEE D’VINE — USPTO Official Gazette (uspto.gov) 2014-09-30
    The federal trademark publication identifies The Honey Wine Company, LLC, doing business as The Honey Wine Company, in connection with BEE D’VINE.
  5. Bee D'Vine Shark Tank update — Shark Tank Blog (sharktankblog.com) 2025-06-18
    The follow-up reports that the four-Shark deal never closed while the company remained in business.
  6. Bee D'Vine Honey Wine Gets a 4-Shark Offer — ABC (youtube.com) 2020-11-13
    ABC’s official clip describes the four-Shark offer in Season 12, Episode 5.