Online Wine Retailers

One of our goals at 100BestWines is to help you enhance and develop your knowledge of wine. We constantly add to our warehouse of interesting and educational content based on your questions and comments. We have built our site to provide context-sensitive access to these articles, but have consolidated our "library" listings below to help you navigate quickly to the areas in which you have the most interest.

Wine.com's simply stated mission is "to make it fun, easy and risk-free for you to discover great new wines from all over the world, whether shopping for yourself or sending a gift."

Their experts review thousands of wines from around the world representing all varietals and regions.

They also allow their partners and buyers add their own reviews for any wine they sell (Note: 100 Best Wines often adds our reviews to their selections).

Wine.com believes knowledge of wines is an important element of the purchasing experience. That’s why each of their wines includes notes from the winemaker, and links to information about the winery and the region it’s from.

With an incredible volume of wines from which to choose, from all regions of the world, in all price ranges, with extensive, yet user-friendly, search criteria make choosing a wine at Wine.com really quite easy. Their "Wine Basics", ratings, winemaker’s notes, and commentaries provide an excellent and valuable foundation to develop your wine knowledge.

WineExpress.com is the exclusive wine shop partner of The Wine Enthusiast catalog and website, which have been providing quality wine accessories and storage for over 25 years. During that time they've served millions of satisfied customers and built a loyal following of avid wine lovers. It's only natural then for them to have teamed up with a great wine shop to bring their customers first quality wines at value prices.

WineExpress.com brings you wines that are extremely limited and in most cases simply unavailable anywhere else. Some of their winery partners produce wines specifically for WineExpress.com to meet their standards and specifications.

Because they work directly with wineries and wine producers, their prices represent value that is well above what other wines available in the marketplace might offer.

WineExpress.com's Wine Director, Josh Farrell (former Cellar Master and Sommelier at the prestigious Windows on the World) carefully reviews and rates the unique and exclusive selections available from WineExpress.com. After assessing the wine’s taste, style, quality, value and overall experience that wine delivers, he and a select panel of wine industry professionals rate and score the wine on their 100 point scale.

Since 1995, The Wine Messenger has built themselves into a source you can trust for providing you with good wines – often award-winning in their home country – at reasonable prices.

All the wines they offer have undergone a lengthy vetting process. Their tasting panel reviews thousands of wines each year to bring you the very best, and they offer only those wines that meet their exacting standards. Their direct import model allows them to bring you new wines from exciting regions faster than through conventional channels, and they never have distributors forcing them to sell their unpopular wines.

Their wine staff thoroughly researches the wines they offer, giving each selection a detailed written description from their President, complete with production information, regional and winery information, as well as detailed tasting notes and a rating. All of their wines are backed by their 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, one of the best return policies in the business. If for any reason you are unsatisfied with the wine you have purchased, let them know within 30 days and they will pick up the wine and refund you for all unopened bottles.

This site was started to make the wine purchasing experience less confusing and less intimidating. Their stated mission is to "Enhance your wine enjoyment with expertly chosen, consumer-approved wines from small undiscovered vineyards. Offer you a limited, carefully selected number of wines to eliminate confusion. Provide you with outstanding wine values and make wine buying easy, reliable and convenient. Give you knowledge to experiment and the confidence to discover your own likes, dislikes and tastes."

True to their stated mission, MyWinesDirect has a limited number of wines from which to select. They have spent considerable time selecting good to great wines from boutique vineyards that will have vast cross appeal. The search capabilities are simple, yet fully encompass their portfolio. The price offerings are extremely reasonable allowing the online wine buyer to experiment without the angst of dropping a lot of money. The individual product pages are concise with tasting notes, food pairing suggestions, other buyers’ ratings and comments, and suggestions of other wines similar to the wine you’re considering. They ship for free, which can save $25 or more on a typical order.

MyWinesDirect upholds their mission statement well and, if you’re a novice wine buyer, provides a wealth of information that will have you talking, tasting, selecting, and buying like a seasoned, experienced wine connoisseur.

Here you will find a unique opportunity to buy wonderful wines directly from the winery. Crown Valley Winery is a family owned estate in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. Founded by Joe and Loretta Scott, with their first vine plantings in 1998, it is a new, but exciting face to midwestern wine.

Gently sloping terrain and well-drained soils form the foundation of the 600-acre estate. Crown Valley Winery now has more than 165 acres of carefully tended vineyards, with expansions planned over the next five years. Currently, the estate features seven varieties of grapes including Chambourcin, Chardonel, Traminette, Vignoles, Concord, Frontenac and Norton. Crown Valley Winery now has the largest planting of Norton grapes in the United States.

In order to satisfy all wine lovers, Crown Valley Winery has created distinguished California-style wines such as Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon. They purchase the highest quality California (Vinifera) grapes freshly picked from the vineyards, and start with whole clusters of grapes that are quick-picked, chilled and shipped with the greatest of care directly to the estate. The grapes are crushed and fermented, and then the wine is aged in French and American oak barrels on the premise.

A wine club package delivered each month is a great way to sample new wines. A wine club membership makes the perfect gift for any wine lover. Every month members receive two bottles of hand selected exceptional wine and more.

The Cellars Ultimate Wine Club selections are delivered each month to your door. Ultra-Premium, Allocated, Highly Rated, Cellaring Potential are just a few of the adjectives that can be used to describe the wines in these clubs. Use the club as a gift to impress and indulge a client or loved one, or just pamper your own taste buds.

Take the guess work out of gift giving and let family, friends, employees, colleagues and customers choose their own perfect gift of wine! Cellars Wine Club also offers gift certificates which come in several denominations to fit your needs.

This site does things a little differently than the rest - they only sell one acclaimed wine, steeply discounted, until it is gone.

It's simple really and that simplicity is what allows them to pass along fantastic wine values to you. These are 3rd generation wine merchants who love finding great deals on quality wines. They will typically offer free shipping on larger order sizes (four or more bottles).

Worthwhile Wine is an importer of great South African wines that are sustainably made. The wines they import have scored 90+, been recommended or rated "best/good value," or awarded a medal in an international competition, and meet their personal criteria for "great wine."

In a tribute to being "green," every wine they import is sustainably made, giving consideration to the environment and stakeholders as they make world-class wine.

Worthwhile Wine is committed to running a "triple bottom line" business (profits, people, planet). They are a Fairtrade certified importer, and also purchase carbon off-sets for shipment of wine to the US, and donate a portion of net proceeds to nonprofits in the US and South Africa.

WineGlobe is a very simple and efficient site that has a moderate coverage of wine selections, but also offers online sales of spirits and beer. They ship within the United States, but also ship to certain international locations.

Wine Legacy offers hand-picked selections of "Highlighted Wines," from Sonoma County red wines to white wines from Chile, that changes up to three times per month. They also try to carry enough stock so that if you like a particular wine, they will still have it available when you check back to re-order. Additionally, they have a simple search tool to find wines in their wine inventory database contained in their online wine catalog.

As knowledgeable online wine merchants, Wine Legacy presents you with a diverse selection of quality wines from top wine regions around the world. Their team of wine connoisseurs tastes hundreds of wines from some of the best wine producing vineyards around the globe. These wines are then narrowed down to a few dozen that are selected to become the wines they present to you on their web site.

Wine Legacy can also meet your gift needs by offering bottled wine in gift box sets of 2, 3, and 6-bottles. You can select your own wines to include in your gift box, choosing from a variety of fine and dessert wine gifts, or they will make the selection for you, depending on the price level you choose.

These sites have a selective assortment of wines, as well as collections and clubs focused on these selections. Each site is a unique partnership with one of the world’s leading direct-to-home wine merchants, Tony Laithwaite. They offer wines of quality and individuality delivered direct to your home or office. In addition, you can rely on expert advice and first-class service, all backed by their guarantee of satisfaction. You’ll find interesting wines, mostly from smaller producers, from vineyards all over the world.

Wine merchant Tony Laithwaite has a fascinating history. In 1969, Tony began a ‘wine trek’ that took him to vineyards and cellars worldwide. He shared his finds and experiences – the stories that made each wine unique – with a growing band of enthusiastic customers.

The business has grown to become the world’s leading direct-to-home wine merchant, still based around the principle that, to get the best deals, you must go direct to the vineyard. By working closely with top producers, quality is guaranteed and prices are kept very competitive. Today, 4SeasonsWine, ZagatWine and WSJwine bring you the opportunity to share in these latest wine discoveries.