10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Shop for Wines Online

You can now shop and pay for almost everything online using your mobile, laptop or desktop. Clothes, shoes, lunch, dinner, flowers, appliances, gadgets, even pay for your utility bills online. With probably the fastest we’ve seen in technology development so far, mobility has been continuously changing the way we shop, the way we manage time, and the way we live our lives.

But should you really shop for wines online? Here are 10 reasons why you shouldn’t:

1.  Because you enjoy wasting time to drive to the mall or shop. With the lovely traffic that we have here, especially during peak hours, you don’t want to miss every second that you’re stuck in the car, not moving, or maybe moving inch-by-inch. This may also include the lingering pangs of hunger that you go through while stuck in a jam. No, you don’t want to miss all those.

2.   Because you enjoy going around and looking for parking slots. So after wasting time to drive all the way, of course, you also enjoy circling around the parking lot or stalking people who might be leaving soon just so you can get that one free parking slot. Or maybe you also enjoy occasional acts of illegal parking and eventually getting clamped. What a joy!

3.   Because you love looking like an idiot with all those bottles on the shelves. Oh, yes, you definitely enjoy having no idea on which shelf to start with nor which shelves are just the type you are looking for. You don’t want a website that easily filters your choices for you. You specially don’t like an organized site where you can choose by type, by country, by grape or price range. No, you don’t want easy choices that save you time.

4.  Because you don’t like information about the wine. Wines from Australia, Chile and other New World wines have English information which you can understand. But what you love the most are those from France, Italy and Spain that use languages you don’t understand, leaving you clueless on what you’re buying. As long as it’s a wine bottle, that’s good enough for you. Then you definitely don’t want a website that provides you the key information such as type, grape, body, flavor and even some food pairing notes.

5.  Because you love spending precious half an hour or more looking at wines on shelves and end up buying the same wine you had before. Since you’ve already enjoyed going through traffic jam, looking for parking lot and finally reaching the shop, you might as well spend some more precious time looking at each bottle, deciphering the labels and info, asking the staff about each wine and getting half an answer. Oh, well, you might as well pick up the same wine as before since you know how it tastes.

6.   Because you love carrying the bottles from the shop to your car and from your car to your doorstep. When you’ve finally bought the 6, 12 or more bottles, you definitely want to carry them yourself. It doesn’t matter if it’s around 10kg, you love carrying heavy stuff. You don’t want to order wines online and get them delivered to your preferred address anywhere in West Malaysia. You’d love to carry them around in your arms.

7.  Because you don’t want any satisfaction guarantee. It doesn’t matter to you if the wine is awful or corked. You enjoy drinking awful wine after all the time you spent picking the wines and carrying the bottles. And the best part is you can’t return them. You don’t want to buy it online, at Wine Talk, where you get satisfaction guarantee --- getting a replacement or return in value credits to change the wine. You like wasting money (and time) for bad wines.

8.  Because you don’t want access to a wine expert or sommelier. You prefer asking about wines from shop staff who can’t even tell you the difference between a Sauvignon Blanc and a Riesling, less likely about what’s the best wine to serve for a specific dish. You’re happy to just talk to people who probably know wine a lot less than you do. No, you definitely don’t want to shop online where a sommelier or other wine advisors can personally guide you in picking wines for personal consumption, events, wedding or whatever. A wine site like Wine Talk allows you to chat online and speak with them while shopping, even give you some wine tips!

9.  Because you don’t like wide range of wines that you can easily discover in just a few clicks even at the comfort of your couch. Shopping for wines online allows you to shop anytime anywhere, no closing hours, no need to get dressed and you don’t even need to physically hand over cash or card. But you don’t want these, right? You are happy to chase operating hours of a shop and exert every effort needed to pay for your wines. You don’t want to be relaxing at the balcony sipping a glass of that delicious Shiraz or Chardonnay while shopping for wine at the same time.

10. Because you want to go through points 1 to 9 over and over again. Ahhh, the time wasted, the pain and other difficulties you experience when buying wines at the shop are worth it, aren’t they? If you enjoy all these and would not shift to easy, convenient, comfortable shopping, then online is definitely not for you. A wine site like Wine Talk exists to provide wine lovers the best possible shopping experience. But, hey, you don’t want that. So go ahead and continue using more time, energy and possibly more money by going to your normal shop.