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Article: Shopping for wine online the virtual mall.
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- Wines & Vines
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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The basics of making wine are pretty much the same as they've been for thousands of years. Throw some grapes in a container and let the yeast do that magic they do. A few bells and whistles have been added, but wine is still wine. But the way wine is sold has changed dramatically from the days when Samuele Sebastiani, among others, used to sell his wines from the back of a wagon in San Francisco.
Today, more and more customers are buying wine they've never seen in real time. Wine has come to the world wide web and business appears to be booming, although it will be interesting to check back after the holidays to see how much business is actually done. Wines & ...