Wine-Searcher
Encyclopedia
Wine-Searcher is a web search engine
dedicated to wine
. The company was founded in London by Martin Brown in 1999. In 2006, the operation was shifted to Auckland in New Zealand. As of December 2010, the site listed more than 19,000 wine merchants offering in excess of 4 million products. However, at that time, far from all wine merchants with a web presence were listed with Wine-Searcher.
Apart from its core function of being a search engine for wines, Wine-Searcher can also be used to search for wine
related information such as grape varieties, regions and appellations, wine gift ideas, wine competition results, recommended vintages, organic wine
, kosher wine
, and other topics.
Wine-Searcher offers some functionality free of charge, but does not display all search hits to non-paying users. Full functionality requires subscription and payment.
wine business has been recognised by numerous sources, notable among them are Time
, Forbes Magazine, Seattle Times, Jancis Robinson
, The Journal Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
, The Times
, and Los Angeles Times
.
Web search engine
A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other...
dedicated to wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
. The company was founded in London by Martin Brown in 1999. In 2006, the operation was shifted to Auckland in New Zealand. As of December 2010, the site listed more than 19,000 wine merchants offering in excess of 4 million products. However, at that time, far from all wine merchants with a web presence were listed with Wine-Searcher.
Apart from its core function of being a search engine for wines, Wine-Searcher can also be used to search for wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
related information such as grape varieties, regions and appellations, wine gift ideas, wine competition results, recommended vintages, organic wine
Organic wine
The most widely accepted definition of Organic wine is wine made from grapes grown in accordance with principles of organic farming, which typically excludes the use of artificial chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides....
, kosher wine
Kosher wine
Kosher wine is grape wine produced according to Judaism's religious law, specifically, Jewish dietary laws .To be considered kosher, Sabbath-observant Jews must be involved in the entire winemaking process and any ingredients used, including finings, must be kosher...
, and other topics.
Wine-Searcher offers some functionality free of charge, but does not display all search hits to non-paying users. Full functionality requires subscription and payment.
Reviews and feedback
Over the years, Wine-Searcher's contribution to onlineONLINE
ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....
wine business has been recognised by numerous sources, notable among them are Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, Forbes Magazine, Seattle Times, Jancis Robinson
Jancis Robinson
Jancis Mary Robinson OBE, MW is a British wine critic, journalist and editor of wine literature. She currently writes a weekly column for the Financial Times, and writes for her website jancisrobinson.com...
, The Journal Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
, The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, and Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
.