It's a good year for online wine shops

[mandy]

The year 2006 is turning out to be a very good one for online wine sales. E-commerce software provider Nexternal, which has about 200 winery clients, reports that wine sales totaled more than $12.4 million for the first four months of the year, up from $8.5 million during last year's first quarter.

Connoisseurs are also spending more with each order. In 2005, the average wine order through Nexternal's shopping cart software was $235. In the first quarter of 2006, the average wine order increased by 56 percent to $367...

Clearly, the time is ripe for wine sellers to set up shop online, as RadCru has done. The three-month old business seeks out hard-to-find, small production wines and sells them for a period of 24 hours or until the stock is sold out, whichever comes first, before moving on to a new wine the following day. It calls itself "the first online marketplace to focus solely on providing wineries a direct online sales channel to the general public."...

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