I’m diving right in. Joining the team at
WineQ. Adding my Silicon Valley tech experience and passion for wine to the heavy hitters at WineQ. What? Why? Thats an easy question to answer…
I’ve spent the better part of the last two plus years blogging about wine, the wine life, and everything wine related. Its a passion, a love, an…addiction? Maybe. But I think more of an obsession. Even the day I put this blog up I wrote about my exploits in wine and my intention for this blog right on our first about page:
My wife and I started Vivi’s Online as a prelude to our bigger wine business ventures. (Stick around and you’ll hear a lot more from us on that front!!!)…
Well, that time has come. I’ve sifted through alot of sites about wine, drank alot of wine, and spent my life in technology. From my first Commodore 64 and Atari game system to the iMac I just
ordered. From the first Geyser Peak Merlot that knocked my socks off, to the Navarro Pinot Noir I drank last night. Through it all I always wondered, “how can I apply all this tech experience to this wine obsession?”…”what will be technical enough to keep that part of Joel excited yet somehow incorporate wine?”. But most importantly “is it possible to combine a ton of tech experience, a love of technology, and a passion for wine?” In effect, marry the two things I can actually spend all day thinking about and have it energize me.
Well, it seems in
WineQ, I’ve discovered a wine business that aligns with my own wine values – to find the best wines not just the most expensive. I’ve discovered a
technology business that aligns with my own technical values – innovative technology applied to a real problem with a drive to continue innovating; actually
doing something with the innovative technology and not technology for technology’s sake (a BIG problem with the whole Web 2.0 and Wine 2.0 craze). I’ve discovered a business that promises to fundamentally change an industry using great technology. This paragraph is very Zen for me!
WineQ offers users the ability to create a queue of wines they want to purchase, and then set up the frequency and quantity of wines received per shipment. In addition, shipping is free for WineQ
members on orders above $35 – not “free on full case orders” or “free on 6 bottles” – free over $35. You can have many wines from a variety of wineries all shipped for free. You can have a single $35 bottle of wine shipped for free. WineQ is redefining what one should expect from a wine club. And there is so much more to come, I wish I could blurt it out but I’ll keep it
under wraps for now. Lets keep it at we’re focused sharply on creating the ultimate online wine experience…if there is something about buying wine online that doesn’t appeal to you, we’re probably working on a way to fix it as we speak. I’ll definitely update more as things progress. Lets just say I probably won’t have to post about it here for you to hear about whats going on with WineQ…I will, you just may not need me to…
After working with the WineQ team for a while (as I’ve done with many out there) it became obvious that this company has the potential to do something special and its ready to go to the next level. Innovative technology, top-flight operations, and wineries signing up left and right, this is going to be fun fun fun!
So with that, I’m joining WineQ. Together the goal is no less then to build the premier wine experience on the Internet. Have a look at the site, feedback is always welcome. As always, Enjoy the Wine Life…
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