College, now was that fun or what? I believe it was the philosopher Belushi who said that. It didn’t really hit me until I moved out of my parents’ house, and into what most know as the real world to realize that life is a complicated mess of dates and deadlines. Immediately my parents said to me “when are you moving out?” and “you need to find a job soon.” Fortunately, I had previously enlisted an old friend to employ me in a venture he dubbed as an online wine revolution. Read the rest of this entry »

Wine is inherently a complex drink whether it be the flavors involved or the stigma those who indulge in wine attach to it. Pushing these presuppositions aside, the staff at Tastevine.com is trying to change this by beginning with a few quality and reasonably priced wines for users to rate with their individual and unique palates. Using our 1-of-a-kind, apples to apples rating system, we are able to generate a Taste ID for each user that is used to help people find Taste Budds (people with similar taste profiles). Once matched, your budds’ favorite wines become your new recommendations.

The most important thing to making this technology functional is for people to start off trying the same wines so they can be matched to other people. There are 3 ways to accomplish this goal:

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