The Adegga Blog

In the third post of our Meet-a-WineBlogger series I would like to let introduce you to Magna Casta, one of the most interesting Portuguese wine projects on the Web.

 

Magna Casta is mainly about the Portuguese wine world and if you’re interested in knowing more about Portuguese this is a great place to start looking. The site is in Portuguese but you can always navigate a translate version.

Magna Casta is authored by 3 people and all of them are on the top 10 active users of Adegga. Here’s where you can find them: emartins, under and scorpio

Magna Casta is very different from your usual wine blog in that it organizes information in an easy to find way. The site has 4 main sections: Wine where you can find wine reviews, Restaurants with reviews of restaurants in Portugal, Tourism with great descriptive articles of their winery visits and an Information section with such things as the Portuguese official wine regions.

You can follow them using the RSS feed but I would recommend dropping by the site once in a while and just loose yourself in the really good content.

Wouldn’t it be great to know what wine bloggers wrote about a specific wine? We’ve build that feature a couple of months but now with over 500 indexed wine blogs and with a little fine tuning we’re officially launching it.

Better than explaining how it works let me show you an example:

When you visit the wine Quinta do Crasto Reserva Vinhas Velhas 2005 you’ll find this list of wine blogs that wrote about this wine. You can then easily click to visit the full blog post on each blog.

We have over 62,372 blog posts from wine blogs that we search to find the relevant ones for each wine. In the case where the wine you’re looking for is not on Adegga you can easily add it here and automatically all the related blogposts will be listed under the new wine.

How to get your blog posts listed?
If you’re a wine blogger and you’re interested in getting you posts on Adegga here’s what you need to do: Search the wine blog search engine for one of your posts to make sure that you’re blog is listed, if it’s not there let us know. If it is no need to do anything else, it’s done!

There is however something special for those of you how want well… to be special. If you use the little wine code we created (the ISBN for wines) on your posts (as a tag or in your article) or you link back to us, we will automatically move your post to the top of the blogs list and even include a star to give you something special.

To read more about how to do this read this article that explains how to use the AVIN in your posts.

Here’s how it looks if you use the unique code or link back to us:

We’ve done a lot of testing on this but if you find something wrong or just want to make a suggestion let us know.

We’re starting a new weekly (hopefully!) Meet-a-WineBlogger feature. The idea is to help more people discover some of the amazing wine blogs and wine bloggers out there. Andrew Barrow (Adegga, Flickr) is our first guest.

Andrew is the host of Spittoon where he writes his tasting notes and other thoughts on wine related subjects including a lot about food pairing.

Interestingly Andrew also writes for The Guardian, is a food blogger at SpittoonExtra and maintains a couple of other sites.

Andrew has an Adegga Wine Blogger Account and frequently uses the AVIN trick to get his posts automatically indexed and linked back from us. We love his notes so we keep voting them up (he now has almost 80 useful votes).

I should add that Andrew is one our community members that uploads more photos of wines (and his photos are g-r-e-a-t, example here). So thank you Andrew!

One last thing, Andrew asked a while ago that we added a way to see who uploaded each photo. We’ve just added that nice detail to each wine page!