Wine.com

Wine.com
IndustryOnline wine retail
FoundedSan Francisco, California, 1998
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Websitewine.com

Wine.com is an American wine online retailer.[1] Wine.com sells over 2 million bottles per year, with a stock of more than 17,000 different bottles of wine, in the United States.[2]

History

The company is later known as Wine.com was originally founded as Virtual Vineyards by Robert Olson in Los Altos, California in 1994 with co-founders Master Sommelier Peter Granoff, and Information Architect Harry Max.[3] Virtual Vineyards sold its first bottle of wine online on January 24, 1995, and went into full production a couple of weeks later. The current Wine.com business was founded by Mike Osborn in Portland, Oregon as eVineyard in 1998.[4] In 1995, David Harmon founded wine.com and in 1999 sold the information site Wine.com to Virtual Vineyards for over US$10,000,000.[citation needed] In 2000, VirtualVineyards.com and WineShopper.com merged under the Wine.com name.[citation needed] The combined business became bankrupt, and in the spring of 2001 eVineyard purchased its assets, becoming known as Wine.com,[citation needed] which then moved its corporate offices to San Francisco, CA. In 2006, Rich Bergsund joined Wine.com as CEO, seeing the company through a financial turnaround.[citation needed] According to Internet Retailer, the company grew to become the biggest online wine retailer in the United States.[citation needed] Wine.com is majority-owned by Baker Capital, a New York–based private equity firm.[citation needed]

Mobile applications

In December 2009, Wine.com launched an iPhone application. In November 2010, Wine.com launched an iPad application, with a dashboard to view wine labels and an interactive geo-location tour of where the wine was produced.[citation needed] In November 2011, Wine.com established a mobile site.[5]

References

  1. ^ "About Us". Wine.com. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  2. ^ "Wine.com Raises $15M Growth Funding, Launches New Site and App" (Press release). WineBusiness. 17 August 2017.
  3. ^ Hapgood, Fred (1996-06-15). "What Makes Virtual Vineyards Rule?, E-Commerce Article". Inc.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  4. ^ "Michael Osborn - Founder & Vice-President Merchandising at Wine.com". THE ORG. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  5. ^ Perez, Sarah (15 November 2011). "Better Late Than Never: Wine.com Gets A Mobile Website". Tech Crunch.

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