| Website | invino.com |
| @invinobuzz | |
| Category | eCommerce |
| Phone | 800-518-2127 |
| Employees | 25 |
| Founded | 3/09 |
| Description | Private Sales for Wine |
| VENTURE FUNDING | |
| Venture Round, 9/11 | |
| Venture Round, 9/11 DN Capital |
invino is the original online member’s only private sale site dedicated exclusively to the wine vertical. invino targets a lifestyle demographic; consumers who embrace wine as a lifestyle not only a special occasion luxury.
Offering members access to hundreds of wines from all over the world, including brands well-known to wine lovers and aficionados, the online company features high quality wines at unparalleled prices, at least 40% and as much as 80% below suggested retail prices.
Developed by wine industry entrepreneurs Tony and Danielle Westfall, invino is modeled after similar e-commerce businesses in the fashion and home decorating categories. Consumers must apply for free membership at www.invino.com to obtain access to invino’s offerings. The site will post new products every day abroad range of wine related categories. All offers are time and inventory-limited. invino members receive a $20 store credit if they refer someone who makes a purchase
invino offers a carefully-edited group of wines at different price points from wine regions worldwide. Both Tony and Danielle Westfall’s wide network of industry contacts garnered through many years in the wine business affords them the opportunity to work with producers from Sonoma to Rioja, and wines from well-known, brand name wineries as well as from small, lesser known producers are represented on the site. All selections are made by Tony Westfall, who honed his palate tasting with some of the best known winemakers and sommeliers in California. A longtime wine collector, Westfall personally tastes hundreds of wines, ultimately choosing only a small percentage to include.
Depending on the offer, Winery Insider wines sell for 40-80% off suggested retail and at the best internet price. The company offers competitive shipping rates, including $10 ground shipping on minimum orders to anywhere the company ships in the US. Winery Insider ships only to states where wine shipments are legal.
invino is part of the husband and wife team’s Good Company Wines portfolio, which also includes VinoFina, an online wine retailer that donates a portion of the proceeds from every bottle sold to non-profit and charitable organizations.
To sign up: http://www.invino.com/signup/?invite=df49698c9081093880681c9fd42479eceed97fda
