The Adegga Blog

WBW was up again. This month hosted by Dr. Debs of Good Wine Under $20. She’s quick and the round-up post is also up already. This month’s theme was White Rhone Varietals.

We didn’t get a change to participate like last time but we can still be of great help because we didn’t drink any white Rhone varietal but we did spend some time around WBW #46!

First, we loved Dr Debs idea of making her round-up post using a nice tag cloud to give a different perceptive on flavors, colors and feelings that tasters associated with this wines. The result is impressive.

We decided to help by changing Dr Debs TagCloud little bit so that the tags link directly to all wine blogs posts that use that tag. So clicking on Citrus will return results from searching 400 wine blogs for Citrus.

Here’s the modified tag cloud:

But there’s more! Here’s a link to all the wine blogs that posted about the wine blogging wednesday.

And an extra little add on (ok the last). Blog posts that are tagged with a specific grape! Grenache Blanc, Roussanne, Viognier, Marsanne, Picpoul and Ugni Blanc

If you’re a wine blogger and your blog is nowhere to be found on our Wine Blog Search Engine let us know (on the comments or andre [at] adegga.com) and we’ll add it.

We’ve just added the option to check wine prices in different currencies. We’ve had support for Euros since the start but now you can also check prices in UK Pounds and US Dollars.

To change to your preferred currency look for the Where to buy box on the side of any wine, click Change currency and you’re set!

Prices in different currencies may very a little since we’re converting them based on current currency exchange rates.

To see this in action check the Nederburg Chardonnay-Viognier 2007, a refreshing white wine that also has a nice (recommended) blog post made by Andrew over at Spittoon.

We have been a little quite. Mostly because we’ve been working on improving Adegga and preparing some new things.

During the last couple of weeks we have split our time between small tweaks, architecture and design of some bigger things (topic for another post) and of course drinking wine (with Portugal playing like this we have lots of reasons to celebrate).

So what did we change? We did a bunch of little changes that make Adegga more interesting and easier to use:

• New online wine shops: 15 to be exact, from around the world. With this we now have more prices on more wines so we decided to show the prices box on the sidebar of every wine page.
  
• New Wine search: search results are now ordered by rating by default., there’s an option to display or hide wine labels on results and another option to select the number of search results per page (20, 40 or 60).
• Search a wine using the AVIN: if you found an AVIN around the web (for example on the tags here or here) you can enter it on the wine search box and you’ll go directly to that wine.*
  
• User homepage redesign: this is the page you see when you login. It now shows you how many wines you have in your cellar, on your wishlist and many you’ve tasted. The redesign also cleaned some unused options.
  
• Faster blogs posts: we have improved the speed and readability of the list of blog posts for every wine wine. They now load much faster and are easier to read.
• Bigger profile pictures (avatars): to see an example check the user page. This makes it much easier to see who’s adding a tasting note or making a comment.**
• New favicon: as an indication to where Adegga design is going we have released our cool new favicon!.
  

* you can also search by AVIN using Adegga’s integrated search bar on Firefox or any other browser.
** We’ll be changing this in more places so this is a good time to update your profile picture.