Wine.com

Wine.com

Industry	Online wine retail
Founded	San Francisco, California, 1998
Headquarters	San Francisco, California
Website	wine.com

Wine.com is a San Francisco based online wine retailer that offers a selection of wines, gift baskets, gift certificates and monthly wine clubs. Wine.com sells over 2 million bottles per year, with a stock of more than 13,000 different bottles of wine, shipping throughout the United States.

The company which today is 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. Virtual Vineyards sold its first bottle of wine online via its custom-coded, secure, on-line shopping cart January 24, 1995 and went into full product two weeks later. The current Wine.com business was founded by Mike Osborn in Portland, Oregon as eVineyard in 1998. In 1999, David Harmon sold eVineyard to Virtual Vineyards. In 2000, VirtualVineyards.com and WineShopper.com merged under the Wine.com moniker. In the spring of 2001, eVineyard purchased the assets of the combined business prior to their bankruptcy and became known as Wine.com. After being acquired, Wine.com moved its corporate offices to San Francisco, CA. In 2006, Rich Bergsund joined Wine.com as CEO, seeing the company through a financial turnaround. According to Internet Retailer, the company has grown to become the biggest online wine retailer in the United States. Wine.com is majority owned by Baker Capital, a New York–based private equity firm.

In 2010, Wine.com launched WineShopper, a members-only website owned and operated by Wine.com. WineShopper is an "online flash sales site that features deals on limited quantities of wine for up to 72 hours."

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