An algorithmically organized wine database with over 80,000 wines that allows you to find whatever wine you’re looking for.
You can also set up a TasteIDTM that will make recommendations to you based on your taste preferences.
If you have a large group of people (50+), Tastevine will help sponsor a tasting party for you and your friends. (email: tayloe [at] tastevine.com)
GrapeThinking helped transform idea into reality.
Services we provide Tastevine include:
Brand Creation, Focus Groups, Market Research, Website Development, Post-Development Marketing, Traditional Marketing, Internet Marketing, Wine Sourcing, Wine Consultation, Distributor Consultation, and more…
Brought to you by the creators of Spill.com, an animated movie-review site, this is a facebook application to help promote the meaning behind their site. The application enables users to demand refunds on terrible movies, give refunds to other movie ‘critics’, and win cool prizes … like free movie tickets.
A great way to check for Box office “hots” or “flops”. Check out the app!
How we are helping!
Services we provide Payback Time include:
Market Research, Brand Research, Business Consultation, Facebook Application Development, Post-Development Marketing, and more…
STEP is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization working within the Education Industry. The program aims to provide young adults with life skills training to better facilitate their futures. This is accomplished through peer education and teambuilding exercises.
How we are helping!
Services we provide STEP include:
Business Consultation, Website Development, Internet Marketing, and more…
GoSTEP.org has gone from not even having a website to now seeing more than 15k unique visitors/month.
Luna Nuda
Luna Nuda translated means “naked moon” The name comes from the brilliant moonlit Italian sky on a cloudless (naked) night shining down on the beautiful ancient cities of Florence and Venice. Every traveler to this magical country has experienced this mystical scene.
Luna Nuda Chianti and Pinot Grigio are made by artisan winemakers that have a great passion for producing quality wines of value. Taste these two wines and you will understand the difference.
How we are helping!
Services we are providing Luna Nuda include:
Business Consultation, Website Development, Internet Marketing and more…
Posto Bello
Posto Bello means “beautiful place’ in Italian and boy do these two wines come from a beautiful place.
The Pinot Grigio is estate grown in the fabulous area of Alto Adige in northern Italy, home to the countries best white wine. All Pinot Grigio is not the same…This wine is as good as this varietal gets. Rich, full bodied, yet with that clean racy profile that makes Pinot Grigio the most popular imported white wine in the US.
The “Bambino”, meaning baby boy, gets its name from the famous Super Tuscan blended wines from Tuscany. “Bambino” is a baby Tuscan meaning that it has the same varietal (Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon) makeup and flavor profile as the “supers” yet at a much less expensive price. You don’t have to break the bank to enjoy a great Italian red wine with “Bambino”
How we are helping!
Services we are providing Posto Bello include:
Business Consultation, Website Development, Internet Marketing, and more…
Gran Karoo
A 100% Blue Agave (commonly referred to as “Tequila”) hailing from South Africa. The “Great Karoo” is a 154 Square Miles of land, that used to be a huge inland sea, and is now home to many great species of indigenous wildlife.
This amazingly smooth agave is perfect for martinis, and goes down great as one of Grape Thinking’s “Saharan Sunset” shots.
How we are helping!
Services we are providing Gran Karoo include:
Business Consultation, Brand Creation, Focus Groups, Website Development, Traditional Marketing, Internet Marketing, and more…
Most brands these days are a clever name and good looking label that an advertising department can run a campaign around and a distributor can push down the pipe. Nobody really thinks about the idea of building a brand by changing the way you actually market and sell the wine. If you could approach these tactics differently and appeal to the consumer and trade in a way that makes their lives easier, this new vehicle would become the brand in itself more so than the pretty label and tasty juice. Stormhoek, Twisted Oak, Pinot Blogger, and Sacre Bleu have pioneered direct marketing for a wine brand and have found some success doing it this way. However, the next generation of wine brands will learn how to break down the barriers of the industry and start actually selling the product in a unique way.
Here are a few steps that we plan to follow: Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve been following Twine for a good bit now, and are very excited to see it finally open in Beta. Twine is a tool that allows individuals, and more importantly, teams, to send items such as emails, notes, presentations, documents, webpages, pictures, and any other material involved in your personal and professional life to a twine or personal page. Their cutting edge semantic inferencing engine will then organize the data for you, helping you to gain a clearer perspective on what you and your team are working on, and also bring in creative recommendations from other individuals and teams with statistically and linguistically correlated twines.
We are especially interested in this because as a startup team, Twine’s system will prove invaluable in increasing productivity and creativity by having an outside party/unbiased mediator (their semantic inferencing engine) analyze our information and help align our thoughts and ideas. As a team, there is a commonality and vision that brings us together and binds us, but unfortunately without a purely unbiased outsider, the differences of each persons’ perceptions will leak into the project and slow it down due to self-interest. However, if you are sending your data to a team page/twine and their inferencing engine is what it is cracked up to be, then it will undoubtedly show us the most important linguistic and semantic components of our project, allowing us to creatively and productively move forward at a faster and more competitive pace. Read the rest of this entry »
After reading both Tom Wark’s post last week about the coming implosion of the US wine wholesalers and the news released yesterday of Amazon entering the US wine market, I think we can all feel the change coming. We haven’t talked about it much in our writings over the past year+, but our main advisor/investor in our Tastevine wine project is on the board of directors of the recently merged R-NDC (Republic National Distributing Company). From our experience, change is ready.
We have learned so much having an inside viewpoint on the true nature of the industry, from the struggles, to the perceptions, to most importantly the arrogance that all parties use to mask their fear of change. Everyone knows where the industry is going and really wants to come together to bring about change, but no one is 
ready to compromise. As the direct movement continues to gain momentum and breakdown barriers, wholesalers continue to feel backed into a corner, forcing them to use their brut force and FUD tactics to make everyone else feel the stress that they do. Wark’s line is priceless tho –”Now, they whine like a little girl who just soiled their Sunday dress and run off crying to daddy asking him to put down his tools and stop doing his job, so he can clean the mess the little girl made all by herself.”– lol. Read the rest of this entry »
To those of you that have kept up with us, we appreciate your readership and support. Everything has been invaluable for a couple young guys trying to start something up. As a marketing company, we’ve
been able to grab a few clients and expand our online marketing ability. It’s all about developing a knack for what’s interesting or cool or fresh. It’s been a fun experience not only growing, but keeping ourselves fed… and a little buzzd too.
However, we all have the big visions and the projects we’re working on and we’re still trying to figure out exactly what to do with Tastevine — we were caught up in the wine 2.0 euphoria of ‘07 and put out a wine community and recommendation engine that had some value. However, every time people saw us as the Facebook of wine, we knew that something was off. We realized that in the effort of creating something that would make wine fun, sexy and fluid, we actually found ourselves not even using what we created!
Why is this? Probably because the only type of people that were attracted to a wine community are winos themselves. Not people like us that don’t know anything about wine. People that are young want a sexy brand that brings in new wines from around the world that actually taste GOOD — young palettes like ours are picky and we need something subtle, sweet, but yet still sophisticated. After we find a brand with these type of wines, we’d love to use them to develop our taste and get involved in an online system that helps us find new recommendations.
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The Pinot Grigio is estate grown in the fabulous area of Alto Adige in northern Italy, home to the countries best white wine. All Pinot Grigio is not the same…This wine is as good as this varietal gets. Rich, full bodied, yet with that clean racy profile that makes Pinot Grigio the most popular imported white wine in the US.