Wine Price Comparisons on Your Mobile

Our site WineZap.com just released a new service that allows you to receive wine price comparisons directly on your cell phone through text messages.

How well priced is that bottle of Caymus at your local wine shop? Text "2001 Caymus Cabernet" (without the quotes) to mobile@winezap.com and get back the current national high, low and average prices. Add the zipcode ("2001 Caymus Cabernet 94621") and also get back the names of local retailers selling the wine and their pricing!

Simply text the vintage and name of a wine to mobile@winezap.com in an email, SMS, or MMS format. WineZap Mobile will respond with a listing of the current high, low and average price for that wine. If the text message includes a 5 digit U.S. zip code, the response will include the name, phone and pricing of nearby wine retailers offering that wine.

For example, text “2004 Caymus Cabernet 94621” (94621 is a 5-digit U.S. zip code) to mobile@winezap.com and WineZap Mobile will reply:

WINE/LOW/HIGH/AVG
Caymus-Cabernet Sauvignon/$63.97/$95.00/$68.29

RETAILER/PRICE/PHONE
Wine Miles (Benicia)/$64.89/707-751-0551
Calwine.com (Napa)/$64.95/888-225-9463
K & L Wine Merchants (SF)/$64.99/800-247-5987
WineGlobe.com (San Mateo)/$64.99/650-571-7270
Cellar Online.com (El Sobrante)/$69.99/510-243-6600

The pricing and retailer information is from WineZap’s advanced search engine. The system collects wine pricing information from over 700 U.S. retailers, normalizes the data and aggregates it.

For full details, please see http://www.winezap.com/mobile.

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