We did a site update today… tried to make it a bit tighter. We also got our Tastevine banner up, which just links to our splash page. Go ahead and sign up for the email newsletter if interested.
We’re going live with the site this coming Monday the 28th. It should be pretty cool. We’ve got 100,000+ wines with about a million tags, as well as thousands of recipes, so you can start playing around with as many search ideas as you can think of to find a wine or recipe that you’re looking for.
The food and recipes won’t have as advanced a rating system to start, but when you find a wine, there will be generally recommended recipes and foods for that wine. The key is to start using, contributing, and rating, which makes the system more valuable to everyone.
Once people have started to rate the same things, Tastevine will provide you with recommendations by matching you with your ‘taste budds’, who will be other members that have similar taste profiles. This gets around the problem of getting recommendations from one critic or reviewer who’s trying to appeal to all. Instead you get matched up to others like yourself. Hopefully, this will build a strong element of trust in the community fueled technology.
We’re really excited about this and look forward to everyone’s feedback.
