UK & Australian Wine Shops (Re)Launched
May 15th, 2008 by Rob Scott Posted in General, Online shopping, Webmaster ChatWhen we spent our year in Australia - until December 2007 - we ended our trip with a gentle enough spell living in the idyllic Adelaide Hills region which, as is only human, we really loved. During that time, we were fortunate to live with and meet some real characters in the wine growing and producing world; to visit some excellent vineyards; and, importantly, to drink some thouroughly excellent wine - just in tasting size quantities of course.
From those little acorns, and several boozy and not so boozy meetings, discussions and debates, a few of us decided upon The Wine Blokes website, at least in principle.
What that site would entail, initially, would be a blog-based platform for industry insiders (such as my friends in australia - and around the world who produce and market wine) to speak about wine - and the industry - from their unique perspective. Where 24 Hour Trading fit in is to provide support with the technology and servers, and to generally make things happen for these blokes. Facilitating their ideas.
This proved to be a rather large chunk for all of us as one thing we sought to provide - which it was agreed is quite necessary - was a comprehensive listing of wines available online in the UK and Australia. No mean feat! This was particularly important for the aussies - even I can see that - as they are a little behind the times when it comes to guys getting up and running with the ball in internet terms, and also due to the fact the country is so damn huge that mail order is really the only way to shift wines that don’t happen to be on your very doorstep!
So, it is without further ado that I announce the arrival, in a much more user friendly format, of the following:
Also be sure to lookout for the US one which we, ever suckers for punishment, have also decided to instigate in the not-too-distant future. You can find out a little more about these projects from The Wine Blokes themselves - be sure to bookmark their blog and subscribe to The Wine Blokes RSS Feed if you like to read (or watch videos) about wine.