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 . 1 contents 1 history 2 mobile applications 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was originally founded in portland oregon by mike osborn as evineyard in 1998 . 2 in 1995 the wine.com website was founded by david harmon and sold it in 1999 to virtual vineyards . in 2000 virtualvineyards.com and wineshopper.com merged under the wine.com moniker . 3 in the spring of 2001 evineyard purchased the assets of the combined business prior to their bankruptcy and became known as wine.com . 4 after being acquired wine.com moved its corporate offices to san francisco ca. 5 in 2006 rich bergsund joined wine.com as ceo seeing the company through a financial turnaround . 6 according to internet retailer the company has grown to become the biggest online wine retailer in the united states . 7 wine.com is majority owned by baker capital a new york based private equity firm . 8 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 . 9 mobile applications edit in november 2008 wine.com introduced the steward ship program offering customers one year of unlimited standard shipping with payment of a one time fee . 10 in december 2009 wine.com launched an iphone application developed by wine.com s ipad app developer partner marshall monroe magic . 11 in november 2010 wine.com launched an ipad application featuring a dashboard to view thousands of wine labels including an interactive geo location tour of where the wine was produced . 12 in november 2011 wine.com released a mobile site . 13 references edit better late than never wine.com gets a mobile website . techcrunch . retrieved 28 august 2012 . the king of online wine . brain libby . retrieved 28 august 2012 . tedeschi bob 7 may 2001 . an online vintage still unproved . new york times . retrieved 24 august 2012 . sinton peter 28 april 2001 . wine.com sold for about 10 million evineyard acquires struggling dot com . sf gate . retrieved 24 august 2012 . evineyard follows winebuyer buy with new bay area office . san francisco business times . retrieved 24 august 2012 . wine.com announces 25 percent growth first ever profits and seventh straight year as top internet wine retailer . wine business . retrieved 27 august 2012 . lefevere jeff 13 october 2011 . where to buy wine online the top eight wine ecommerce sites for unique and interesting wines . forbes . retrieved 24 august 2012 . is wine.com running on fumes . dr. vino . retrieved 27 august 2012 . wine.com gets in on the daily deal trend . internet retailer . retrieved 24 august 2012 . wine.com launches advanced personalized recommendations to enhance shopping experience . yahoo finance . retrieved 24 august 2012 . http iphone.tmcnet.com topics iphone articles 118472 winecom announces free app ipad.htm . tmcnet . retrieved 28 august 2012 . external link in title help wine.com for ipad now available . padgadget . retrieved 27 august 2012 . better late than never wine.com gets a mobile website . tech crunch . retrieved 28 august 2012 . external links edit http wine.com drink portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wine.com & oldid 743700582 categories 1998 establishments in oregoncompanies based in san franciscocompanies established in 1998online retailers of the united stateswine retailershidden categories cs1 errors external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view