How do you get into Speakeasy Wine and Spirits?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy Wine and Spirits is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speakeasy Wine and Spirits sits
Speakeasy Wine and Spirits is in Quitman, Mississippi, in Clarke County, in the Deep South of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Quitman. If you know another, tell us.
Mississippi holds six listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Mississippi speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Mississippi
Mississippi did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1908, twelve years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Mississippi already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Mississippi.
What the newspapers recorded in Mississippi
Searching the Library of Congress run of Mississippi newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Mississippi:
- The Columbus dispatch, January 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Okolona messenger, January 8, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Starkville news, January 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Grenada sentinel, January 9, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy Wine and Spirits by phone on (601) 557-5131 and on Facebook.
The address is 105 W Donald St, Quitman, MS 39355. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy Wine and Spirits we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a food and beverage store.