Seven months after selling her longtime restaurant Madison Park Cafe, Karen Binder is back in the biz. And this time, it’s virtual.

Binder dropped me a note to say that her online wine shop, Binder’s Bottles, is up and running. Her enterprise, she writes, “is not a bricks-and-mortar venue, just a virtual place where my old (and new) customers can ask me for anything they’ve tasted or seen in a shop and want me to find for them.”

After the Cafe closed in August, Binder spent some time in Hawaii reveling in being a grandmother; she also applied for a retail wine license, a process that involved hanging her application on the front door of her house. The longtime restaurateur began studying wine about 15 years ago and sold retail bottles (“very value-driven, mostly French”) at Madison Park Café a few years back.

Binder has already filled a few orders and is still wading into the social media fray, but you can find Binder’s Bottles on Facebook.