Buying Wine Online Archives - San Diego Wine Storage

Wine Auctions–let your fingers do the walking!

If you’re old school, wine auctions might conjure up ball rooms in 5-star New York and London hotels, with uber-rich wine collectors sipping champagne as they raise their paddles for old bottles selling at eye-popping prices. But the Internet has ushered in a whole new era for wine auctions–and wine collectors. You can now sit […]

BUYING WINE? THE WEB IS YOUR FRIEND

The shipping season for wine is upon us. The weather has cooled down and wineries, clubs, and retailers are filling orders their clients placed during the dog days of summer. Here at San Diego Wine Storage we will receive and sign for 20 to 30 shippers a day at our San Diego and Solana Beach […]

WINE CLUBS–CAVEAT EMPTOR

It always amazes us how, in this day of super-targeted marketing, most wine clubs still take a shotgun approach to selling wine. “Sign up for $__ and we’ll send you 6 bottles of delicious wine every month.” Of course the wine is chosen by their “experts” so you’re sure to like it. Not. A lot […]

MORE PLACES TO ORDER WINE ONLINE

We estimate that more than 75% of our customers order wine online and have it shipped direct to our San Diego and Solana Beach facilities. It’s easy, the selection is good, and they don’t have to worry about having someone 21 or over at home to sign for the package. In a post we ran […]