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online stores

“Wine on the Web”

September 8, 2010

During the Symposium of Masters of Wine in Bordeaux last June, the first panel was on “Wine on the Web”. The moderator was Christophe Macra, one of the four French MW. Christophe invited four prestigious panelists to talk about Wine and Web: Jancis Robinson, Rowan Gormley, founder and CEO of NakedWines.com, Eric LeVine, founder and [...]

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Selling wine online from order to payment

May 28, 2010

Nothing new or exciting about it? Wrong! This new app is really innovative and for once it comes from France. It feels good to be able to write about an innovative feature launched by a French company, believe it or not! Millesima is a Bordeaux “negociant” house founded in 1983 by Patrick Bernard. It is [...]

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Buying wine on the Net, a headache?

April 15, 2009

The Wall Street Journal published lately a long article explaining why buying wine on the Net became a real headache for many shoppers and listed some problems: “phantom inventory”, slow delivery, cluttered sites, “tedious drill-down menus”, 20th Century web sites, etc. The author lists some solutions and recommends a few great sites. I was a [...]

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Selling wine on line

October 8, 2008

Selling wine on line is not a novelty. Wine.com was one of the pioneers and, after many ups and downs, became the major wine store on line we now know. Nowadays on line wine stores are more and more numerous, inversing what’s happening in the brick and mortar world. Thirty years ago, there were 12,000 [...]

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The winehound – news from Bob Wesley

July 22, 2008

Last year, when I was still writing Wine Brands, I had the pleasure to meet and interview Bob Wesley, who was then the wine manager of the upscale grocery store Lazy Acres in Santa Barbara. When talking to him and looking at the wines displayed in the store I was impressed by his original choices [...]

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