The wine industry in the Pacific Northwest is booming lately but how do you find some of the Washington wines that people have been raving about? A new website called
Love Washington Wine, gathers together Washington's boutique wines in one place for sale to consumers. The website includes some of the most talked about wines such as those from the Cave B Estate Winery, C.R. Sandidge Wines, Chateau Faire Le Pont Winery, Saint Laurent Winery and Wilridge Winery. You can search by winery, varietal, type and appellation. So far they offer 64 wines from ten wineries in the low to moderate price range ($10 to more than $50). Now all they need is a blog on the site to offer Washington wine newbies a bit more information.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brad Walker Jan 5th 2007 3:34PM
This site is run by a software company, and not the wineries or a reseller. A much better site for Washington Wine is www.winecow.com. It is the Wine Connection Of Washington, and the guys who do it are devoted to washington wine.
Mark Bolz Jan 5th 2007 8:44PM
I am the President CEO and Founder of Love Washington Wine. Our company provides the software that sells the wine this is true. However, unlike WineCow we are not a retailer or actually sell / resell the wine. The wineries have come together via our software to get their wines direct to market using the most profitable methods possible for them. They list and sell the wines on our site. The margins typically pocketed by a retailer / reseller like WineCow go straight to the winery not to the software company, which is why they chose to sell their wines cooperatively on our site. We encourage you to enjoy these great wines, knowing you bought them directly from the winery!
http://www.lovewashingtonwine.com
WineCOW Jan 22nd 2007 3:07PM
Brad, thank you for your kind words about WineCOW.com and our efforts to promote Washington Wine.
Regarding the previous comments made by Mark Bolz, we would like to clarify for everyone the true nature of Wine Connection of Washington. WineCOW.com does not consider itself to be a retailer/reseller of Washington Wine, exclusively. Actually, the website was originally founded as a way to further promote the fantastic wines of Washington and the state's thriving wine industry. We also work considerably hard to educate young and/or beginning wine drinkers about what's really important in wine - to drink what you like, whenever and however you choose. And, to lower the predisposed intimidation (aka. “snob”) factor that has plagued the wine industry for decades from growing a larger, broader audience.
As advocators for the “wine underdog”, which definitely includes the Washington Wine Industry on a national level, we also strongly support the smaller, lesser known, boutique wineries of Washington, in which there are quite a few. One way for us to more effectively do this was to help sell some of these fantastic wines in order to get them out in the hands of wine drinkers and introduced to a larger audience. So, logically we started the WineCOW.com online wine store, through which we sell small amounts of some of the best wines in Washington State. This is also the same reason we started our WOW “Wines of Washington” wine club.
In closing, we do not actually consider Love Washington Wine to be a competitor. Nor do we categorize any other wine store or wine retailer as competition. So, there is no real advantage in us talking bad about them and hopefully they in turn will come to realize the same. Any business, online or brick, that chooses to sell and promote Washington Wine is an ally in our book. So, thank you Mark Bolz of http://www.lovewashingtonwine.com for helping to further support of the Washington Wine Industry! Cheers!
John Mar 19th 2007 9:29AM
Outsourcing is somewhat good for an economy but lets don't make it a habbit.