WineAccess was incorporated in 1996, shortly after a guy who described himself as an internet consultant approached one of our importer friends with an idea for a website. When our friend described it -- a simple website, really a catalog of the importer's wines -- we extrapolated. Why would anyone care about one importer's website? Or one retailer's website? Or a winery's website? But what if we did something else, something much bigger? What if we created a website that could house all of these wine players' sites and what if the site was created to allow for the careful interweaving of tens of thousands of wines from thousands of sellers?