How can Wine-Searcher save you money?

Wine-Searcher is a price comparison tool for the wine trade. Although there are many features throughout the website, our core strength lies in providing an accurate, up-to-date and searchable database of wine shop price lists. We exclude the lists of those who cannot fulfil orders, those with bad customer service and those who do not update their price lists in a timely manner. Except for those exclusions, we include every possible retail price list we can.

Here, we summarize the two main ways Wine-Searcher can save you money on wine purchases. These are: direct 'monetary' and indirect 'non-monetary' benefits.

Firstly, buying through Wine-Searcher means you pay less. This can mainly be attributed to:

• Volume. Being the most accurate and comprehensive wine database, Wine-Searcher's ability to offer the widest range of price points is unrivalled.
  
  
• Data accuracy and cleanliness. On average, all our lists are refreshed three times per week, and we take great care in excluding those lists which are not kept up to date by merchants and/or which have errors.

Below are just a few examples demonstrating the price differences. For the wine 'Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc', worldwide retail prices as at 8 July 2009 were:

Lowest Wine-Searcher price (excluding auction prices)

Highest Wine-Searcher price (excluding auction prices)

That is a price difference of 271%!

Prices within the US as at 8 July 2009:

Lowest Wine-Searcher price (excluding auction prices)

Highest Wine-Searcher price (excluding auction prices)

A price difference of 226%!

Prices within California as at 8 July 2009:

Lowest Wine-Searcher price (excluding auction prices)

Highest Wine-Searcher price (excluding auction prices)

A price difference of 165% within this single state!

Secondly, a point often voiced by our regular users: you save time finding a particular wine. Although 'non-monetary', this is vital, as without a search tool like Wine-Searcher it is hugely time consuming to find the right wine at the right price. Imagine scouring the internet for a bottle of wine that you are trying to find as an anniversary wine gift.