First auction on the Internet
The biggest wine auction
in U.S.A.
The biggest charity wine auction, "Napa Valley Wine Auction", introduces
an electrical bidding system by using Internet, an international network of
personal computers. Anyone can bid California wines from anywhere in the
world and the sponsor expects drastic increase of bidders.
The auction will take place on June 10, 1995, Saint Herena, California,
and more than 100 local winaries will participate to the event. Eight
winaries such as Vichon, Rutherford Hill, Cakebread Cellars will
be auctioned off. A display screen will be set in the auction room to
display the on-line bidding prices in real time.
Nihon Keizai Shinbun, Evening edition, May 25, 1995
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