Registrations have been available by invite only for the last couple of months. During this time we have fixed a lot of bugs and developed great new features with the help of our beta users.

Today I have the pleasure to announce that we have removed limitations and anyone can create an account!

Adegga office view (ok, it’s just a French vineyard)
The Future
This opening is just the start. There’s a lot that we want to do to.

We want Adegga to help you discover and choose wine by sharing your opinions with other people you trust. If only you and a friend were using Adegga, you could already take some value from it. Adegga is about your friends and the wine you drink.

In terms of features we have a lot of good stuff coming. In a couple of weeks we’ll open Adegga Mobile to let you have access to your wishlist on the go.

We would love to have producers on Adegga and we’re working on something to help them promote their wines and engage in a conversation with their costumers. If you know a producer that would like to be involved let them know that we exist and send us an email. We would love to talk to them.

We’re looking forward to show all of you all the good things we have been working on.

A big thank you to everyone who reported our launch!
Here’s the list of posts (ordered by language).

• adegga.com launches - for wine people - and for us who wants to be (Web avant-garde)
• Adegga Launches (/message)
• Adegga to Launch Social Network For Wine Lovers (Mashable)
• Drinking is the new Travel (timtowle)
• Adegga launched (Pedromendes.com)
• What is Social Anyway? (Digital Demystified)
• Adegga Online (AlterEgo)
• Adegga launched! (ADRIFT)
• Portugueses lançam rede social para vinhos (João Pedro Pereira, Digital in Portuguese)
• Adegga, finalmente! (Mas certamente que sim! in Portuguese)
• Está aberta a Adegga (Logon in Portuguese)
• Adegga (Celso Martinho in Portuguese)
• Adegga (Simplice in Portuguese)
• Adegga, social per la scelta del vino (Viscido in Italian)
• Adegga: socialnetwork sul vino (Sorsetti in Italian)

Thank you all for the support!

We’re very pleased to announce that Adegga is officially launched and you can finally starting discovering wine in new way! We’re celebrating now with a marvelous Palácio da Brejoeira 2004.

A few practical informations. Adegga accounts will be available by invitation only (more at the FAQ). Nevertheless, everyone who registers (via an invite) will get a couple of new invites to send.

An email has been sent to all of you who subscribed to our alert email. If you didn’t receive an email get in touch with us.

We would like to thank all of you who have been testing Adegga in the last couple of months. Thank you for all the support. Adegga is a better project because of you.

Last, but (definitely) not least a special thanks to the team that made Adegga possible. André Cid, André Ribeirinho (me), Emídio Santos as the founders and Bruno Pedro as the technical advisor. And a thank you to all the other team members

Adegga is only starting. We have several features that we’re finishing and will be launching in the coming weeks. There’s so much coming up. So many interesting things we wished we had them all to launch! We hope you enjoy using Adegga as much as we enjoyed building it.

I’m happy to announce that we’re approaching the launch of Adegga.

The past couple of months we’ve been receiving great feedback from our lovely beta-testers (thank you!). We’ve turned lots of suggestions into features and it’s now time to start talking about them.

We have written about the Wine List Overview feature and we’ll be showing other features here. For a start, here’s a screenshot of the homepage when you’re logged in.

Your home at Adegga
We’ll be sending an email soon to the 500 people who have asked to be notified of our launch. If you haven’t subscribed and would like to do, please enter your email address on the Adegga signup form.

I was planning to launch this blog in a few weeks but a very good friend became a father 2 days ago and so to celebrate I decided to give birth to the project’s blog this week.

This is will be a blog about the building of adegga.com.

So the blog is up and running on the blog.adegga.com (you are here!). Simple setup for now. I plan to move the blog to a different IP address in the near future as it might be good to use the blog for system status too.

Technically, a little DNS setup and creating the VirtualHost entry and we’re on.

The welcome page and a few more project details will come in a few days.