The rise and the development of the Internet has changed many things about the way people live their lives, and especially the way they engage in commerce. Wine markets are no different than other such specialty markets in this regard— where once wine buyers and sellers were limited by region and time, today the Internet grants both wineries and wine aficionados around the world the ability to interact with each other almost instantly.

In recent months, wine buyers may have noticed that discounts have been appearing everywhere online. A global wine surplus, along with the unstable world economy, has shifted the wine market on the side of buyers. Forbes magazine reports that selling bottles of fine wine at reduced prices has become a “budding sector” in the market—as demonstrated by the appearance of several “Daily Deal” sites. The Chicago Tribune noted last week that the wealth of information available gives buyers the power to compare one seller to another, and thus leads to a sort of “democratization” in the way wines are priced.

In the next few weeks, the Strongbox wine blog is going to profile a few of these “Daily Deal” and buyer-oriented sites, including Wine-Searcher, Cinderella Wines, and Wine Spies. We’ve also added a handy twitter feed of the latest daily wine deals onto our sidebar, so you can check out today’s deals!

If you’ve spent any time scanning these sites or others for your own daily deals, let us know what your experience was like. Is the website the sort of destination that you frequent or has it failed to impress you at all? Are the deals generally very enticing, or merely ho-hum? Do the sites respond well to customer feedback? Give us your opinions and we’ll share them with other readers here.