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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine - Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
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Stay Young With The Health Benefits of Red Wine
While your health-freak friends spend hundreds of dollars on weird miracle fruit juices, you can sit back and relax. As it happens, your red wine habit might just be the key to staying young longer.
The health benefits of red wine are greater than you might think. Besides having antioxidants, fermented foods are good for digestion and alcohol itself has also shown some surprising traits over long-term moderate use.
Red wine is full of polyphenols including proanthocyanidin; a powerful antioxidant. In fact, some red wines have more antioxidants than commercial grape juice, raw blueberries and even miracle fruits like Açaí. In the fruit juice category, a full-bodied red wine…
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Buying Wine on the Web
In an ever more digital world, there are a few things that remain reassuringly analog. Wine, for example. The mysteries of a Montrachet or the magic of a Margaux remain too complex and too nuanced to reduce to the zeros and ones of digital DNA, though I imagine someone must be trying. Although technology has its limitations in the making of wine, it is increasingly useful in the buying and selling of it.
Click and Sip: The Pros and Cons to the Top Online Wine Stores
Which site offers the best selection, or the cheapest shipping? And which one makes it the easiest for someone who has no idea what they're doing?
Free the Grapes
Free the Grapes! is a national grassroots coalition of wine lovers, wineries and retailers who seek to remove restrictions in states that still prohibit consumers from purchasing wines directly from wineries and retailers.
Wine apps designed to help you pick the right wine, anywhere, anytime
Looking for some help finding a wine on the go? There's an app for that - and then some. In fact, there's 2,021 apps alone on the iTunes stores under the search term for the word "wine" as of last count.
Stay Young With The Health Benefits of Red Wine
While your health-freak friends spend hundreds of dollars on weird miracle fruit juices, you can sit back and relax. As it happens, your red wine habit might just be the key to staying young longer.
Vivino
Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace, powered by a community of millions of wine drinkers who use the Vivino app to scan and rate more than 500,000 wines every single day.
Plonk
Your personal wine concierge has arrived. We’ll take you on an expertly curated, super adventurous wine drinking journey around the globe and give you exclusive access to the best limited-production, hard-to-find, off-the-beaten-path wines that belong in your glass.
WebWine.com
Wine is an adventure that should be fun, easy and enjoyed without the stuffy, uptight behavior that has surrounded the wine industry for years.
Wine Exchange
We picked the name Bestwinesonline.com because it simply encapsulated what we wanted to do more than anything, sell the world’s best wines…online.
Wine Express
WineExpress.com is the exclusive wine shop partner of The Wine Enthusiast catalog and website, which have been providing quality wine accessories and storage for over 25 years.
Wine Legend
Wine Legend is ready to help you find the wines for your personal enjoyment as well as gifts for family, friends and business associates.
Wine-Searcher
Wine-Searcher is 'the most successful, and seriously useful, price comparison website' (Jancis Robinson MW, Financial Times). The Wine-Searcher database grows day by day, and we use various procedures (both manual and automated) for removing lists that are out-of-date, incorrectly priced, or deceptive in any way.
Wine.com
At Wine.com, get the facts you need to make easy, informed decisions about buying wine for yourself and as a gift.
WineAccess
Buy wine from the largest selection of wine online Over 60,000 wines from more than 100 stores.
WineBid
WineBid is like the ebay of online wine buying. The site is populated with wines from collector’s cellars and importers/distributors wanting to sell directly to customers. The user experience isn’t flashy but it is fast and easy to navigate - WineFolly
WineFetch
WineFetch helps you buy wine by comparing wine prices from hundreds of retailers, manage your personal cellar, and track your wine reviews.
WineLibrary.com
Comprehensive website
Winemonger
Winemonger offers you wines that you will not find anywhere else in the United States. And we're not just a wine retailer; we are also the importer of the wines we carry, which means we have direct access to the winery and winemaker. We share more information with you about each bottle of wine we sell than you probably even want to know.
WineZap
Buy wine by comparing wine prices at U.S. retailers.
GetWineOnline.com
GetWineOnline.com provides wine-lovers access to over 12,000 wines from 38 countries at heavily discounted prices. With exceptional customer service, fast shipping and affordable pricing, GetWineOnline.com was named one of the Best Online Wine Shops by Food & Wine Magazine in 2013.
Rewined
Discover great wines in a fun, flexible way.
The Accidental Wine Company
Our entry into the wine business seemed accidental, but really it was a slow progression.
The Corkery
The Corkery is your ultimate wine resource. Whether you're looking for an under the radar gem, a highly regarded producer, a name you recognize, or just a delicious and inexpensive bottle to drink on a Tuesday night, we're committed to finding you the perfect bottle.
The Wine Foundry
At The Wine Foundry, you are the winemaker. Throughout the entire process you have input on all decisions from fermentation to aging and bottling and labeling. At harvest you can join us at the winery to participate in the crush
TheCompass
Welcome to the Wine Compass, your complete source for wine and vineyard information
Uncork
The Uncorked Cellar is the most comprehensive wine inventory software and wine information source of its type available for wine enthusiasts. Instantly access information on a wide range of wines, including wine aging information and wine tasting notes provided by the wine maker.
Vinfolio
The best source for collectible wine. Coveted allocations plus exclusive access to private collections.
Vino Volo
Discover great wines. Our goal is simple: to be your own personal wine country–a welcoming place to find, share and enjoy great wine.
Amanti Vino
Bringing you the world of artisanal wine.
Berry Bros & Rudd
See all the latest wine news,wine stories and wine headlines. Every day, something happens in the wine world so keep up to date by coming back to this page on a regular basis
BevMo
Glad you found us! We’re the number one specialty beverage retailer on the west coast. You’ll find BevMo! stores located throughout California, Arizona, Washington and of course here on-line. Our philosophy is simple, “shopping for beverages should be as much fun as drinking them!”
California Wine Club
Since 1990, club owners Bruce and Pam Boring have traveled California's wine country searching for limited production wines from small, family-owned wineries dedicated to the art of making fine wine.
Hi-Time Wine Cellars
Our goal is to provide our customers with one of the largest selections of fine wines and rare spirits from all over the world, at competitive prices and without sacrificing the quality of our customer service.
KL Wines
Welcome to K&L Wine Merchants! Since 1976 we've been proud to offer the world's finest wines, great service and competitive prices. We offer thousands of wines on this site with inventory updates happening in real time.
Last Bottle
We're wine drinkers, collectors, and part of the global wine trade. We're really good at finding deals, which we pass on ASAP. We don't waste a cent on fancy offices in Manhattan or anything that will prevent us from saving you money.
NakedWines.com
NakedWines.com invests in independent winemakers from around the world, in return for exclusive wines at preferential prices - which we pass on to YOU.
Napacabs
Welcome to Napacabs.com featuring some the most distinctive wines in the world, produced in small quantities and in high demand. All our wines are stored in our temperature and humidity controlled warehouse.
Natural Merchants
Natural Merchants is a leading Importer of high quality certified organic, organically grown and biodynamic wines. Let us be your direct source for the best European organic wines from our family produced organic wineries.
Organic Wine Company
Too many people today complain about unpleasant reactions after drinking an innocent looking glass of wine. Not so with wines selected by The Organic Wine Company!
Rare Wine Co
An award-winning importer, wholesaler, and retailer, via an acclaimed newsletter, focusing on the world's greatest, most interesting wines.
SignatureWines.com
Your guide to a unique food and wine experience.
Tasting Room
Tasting Room is the only wine club that focuses on you — your tastes, your preferences.
Total Wine & More
Total Wine & More is America‘s Wine Superstore® — the country‘s largest independent retailer of fine wine. We started in 1991 when brothers David and Robert Trone opened a small store in Delaware. Today, we operate 155 superstores across 20 states and continue to grow.
Twenty Twenty Wine Merchants
Fine and rare wines, spirits and cavier since 1957.
Vintage Roots
Vintage Roots is the UK's leading supplier of organic red wines, organic white wines, organic beers, organic ciders, organic spirits, organic liqueurs, organic soft drinks and organic chocolate
WSJwine
WSJwine is a partnership between The Wall Street Journal and the world's leading direct-to-home wine merchant. It offers you wines of quality and individuality delivered direct to your home or office.
Zachys
Here you will find one of largest selections of fine wines anywhere on the web. Whether you are looking for that elusive rare gem, the latest "hot" find, or a vast selection of futures...
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