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We have been working hard on making sure that searching for wine on Adegga is as simple and effective as it can be. A few months ago we’ve added full text search allowing people to search for things like Portugal red or france syrah. Now we’ve added Faceted Search.

What is Faceted Search?
Faceted Search is the ability for people to filter search results based on different criteria like wine type, country, region, year, etc. For each filter you’ll also know before clicking how many results you will get when applying the filter.

Here’s how the new faceted search looks like on the left column:

We hope this new search feature will help you when searching for wines on Adegga. As always if you have any feedback please let us know!

With the European Wine Bloggers Conference fast approaching we’ve noticed how we couldn’t find a place to keep track of which wines we were going to taste at the event. So we’ve decided to launch a new section just for Wine Events.

For every event you can state if you’re Attending and, of course, leave a comment or a question about the event.

If you’re hosting a wine event make sure you add it here. You’ll then be able to add all the wines tasted at the event and track who is coming or might come.

We’ve just published the new feature so translations are not yet available for all languages. Apart from that, if you see something that should be fixed please let us know!

We want to make it easier for you to share your Adegga activity on other services you are already using. You can now publish your Adegga updates directly to Twitter (soon to Facebook too).

To enable this feature, go to your Account settings and look for the ‘Twitter activity updates’ section. Once you allow Adegga to connect to your Twitter account (all done via OAuth so we don’t even see or store your Twitter details) you can start reviewing, marking as favorite, etc. your wines and your activity updates will show up on Twitter.

You can of course configure which specific activity updates you want to use. From Adding a wine as tasted / cellar / favorite all the way to writting a new wine review.

Please let us know how it’s working for you. If you would like us to changing anything let us know too.

Before you could see what your friends were drinking but couldn’t comment on that. Now you can!
Here’s how the new comment feature looks like:

We’re adding a bunch of ways to make it easier to start have a conversation on Adegga. We’ve just redesigned your homepage (login here) to make it simpler to comment on your friends activity (yes, like you can do on Facebook!)

These comments can be very useful. You can easily ask a question or just thank another user for sharing their opinion and get feedback on that. A true conversation.

As always we’re open to feedback. Let us know what you think!

We’ve redesigned the My wines page and it’s now much easier to manage your tasted wines, your favourites, your cellar and your wishlist.

Before, you had 4 separate lists and your wine information was split between them. With the new my wines you can for example know which of my favourite wines you still have in the cellar and many other new things.

For those of you who use Adegga to manage your cellar we’ve also added a way to indicate where the wine is stored (like shelf 1 or Bin 12) and a little comment field for such practical things as taking a note if this wine was a gift from a friend.

In another update we’ve also added the 10 latest activities on each wine page. This will make it easier to check what members are doing with each wine at any time.

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.

This was one of the top requested features so we’re very proud to announce that Adegga Mobile is up and running!

Any web enabled phone (including the pictured iPhone) will allow you to check for wines on the go.

With Adegga Mobile you can check what other people think about a wine, check prices on other wine shops or read more about a specific wine producer.

You can search for wines and producers but you can also easily browse by type, country or vintage.

This is the first version of Adegga Mobile and is currently “read only”. That said, we’ll be adding more useful features continuously like we always do on Adegga.com. If there’s something you think we should add please add your comment to our rent a car bulgariafeature requests page.

We would love to hear your comments about the new Adegga Mobile!

You can now easily add a comment to any note another member has made.

Some of you have been asking us to add a way to communicate with other members more easily so we’ve been making a few changes in that direction. This is the first major one.

So what can you use the comments for ?

• Thank another user for having written that note. Who doesn’t like a nice compliment?
• Ask a question related to a specific wine or note.
• Add anything you find interesting and get the conversation going.

If markets are conversations, Adegga is now ready to support them. Let the conversation begin!

You asked and we’ve done it. You can now keep track of your favourites wines!

To add a wine to your favourites just click on the heart icon bellow each wine.

Go on! Make a list of your favourite wines! Here’s my list of favourites.

We have just launched a new release of adegga (which we named Tempranillo) that includes new profile pages for wineries and members, a new activity log and a new way to add a rating or write a note on a wine!

New profiles pages
We’ve redesigned all profile pages on adegga. Members have new profiles with an improved design and a list of recent activity. Wine profiles are back to one page making it easier to read and find the type of information you’re looking for. Notes, blog posts and wine prices are there as usual but in a more organized way (example).

But the biggest change was made on Winery profiles which now include a sortable list of wines, an improved about section (with possibility of video and photo slideshow) and a list of recent activity. We’re starting to give control of producer profiles to wine producers and this is the result of the feedback we’ve been getting on what this profile should have.

Here’s an example of a new producer profile:

New activity log
Updates from your watchlist (contacts, producers or shops) were limited to wines tasted and added to the cellar. Not anymore! The new activity log allows you to track much more information and to know for example when a friend started following a new winery.

But there’s more. Wine producer profiles now include latest activity on its wines. Member profiles also include latest activity. This means more information to make it easier for you to see what is going on.

New add rating / write note
When you visit a wine page you can now easily add a rating or a note without leaving the page. Just press Rate it / Add note and a rating / note box will show up allowing you too more easily add your review of a wine.

Tempranillo release
As you probably noticed we have started naming our feature updates (or code releases) after grapes names. We choose Tempranillo as the first one for a reason! Tempranillo is the main grape used in Rioja which is also the region we’ll be heading to in a couple of days to join the European Wine Blogging Conference.

Alongside these features we have been preparing adegga for two major changes. On this release we laid down the foundations for the upcoming redesign and for another surprise feature. Stay tuned!