| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JANUARY 24, 2000 ISSUE | ||||||||
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Online Wine Merchants www.ambrosiawine.com Napa (Calif.)-based niche player very strong on aged California cabernets. Offers 500 wines and ships to 17 states. Service-oriented and encourages phone counseling with its experts for those who can't decide. www.evineyard.com Portland (Ore.) retailer ships to 21 states. Selection comprises 1,800 wines. Provides Wine Spectator ratings as well as its own. www.wine.com Ships to 45 states. Site is easy to use and offers savvy analysis. Good selection of California wines; expanding offerings of foreign labels. www.winebins.com Boston-based offshoot of the Geerlings & Wade wine mail-order operation probably has the widest selection, with 2,000 wines. Strong in European labels and provides Wine Spectator and other listings. www.wineshopper.com This San Francisco-based site, which plans a nationwide network, hopes to ''go live'' by the end of March. Plans to offer lots of advice through accords with Winetoday.com, Wine Spectator, and other publications. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP |
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