Amazon shelves wine plans
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Online retailer Amazon.com has abandoned plans to sell wine in the US after the project hit a series of problems.
The company confirmed the news some 18 months after reports of its scheme for direct wine sales first surfaced.
‘I can confirm Amazon will not be getting into the wine business,’ a spokesperson told decanter.com.
Amazon declined to reveal further details after an email from a senior executive to a number of wineries was leaked to the US media.
Written by Richard Woodard
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Richard Woodard is a freelance wine and spirits writer based in the UK. Aside from Decanter, he writes for several wine trade and media outlets including Imbibe, The Drinks Business, Harpers and Drinks International.
Since 2015 he has been the magazine editor of Scotchwhisky.com. He has formerly worked as a wine news reporter at Imbibe and a feature writer for Halycon Magazine.