Wine on the Web

Thursday, July 07, 2011

For a long time I have been looking for a website that offers me ratings & price comparisons on international wines. There is a plethera of these websites for Australian wines, winecompanion.com, jeremyoliver.com and many others. Now, finally, I have found a website that does this for international wines as well as Australian.

If you are into your French, Italian, German, South African & US wines you need to check out www.vinopedia.com It's free and it's fantastic.

Their database is huge and access both the Winespectator & Robert Parkers webpages for further tasting notes & ratings. If you are subscribers to these pages you will have further access to more detailed information.

But the most usefull tool on Vinopedia website is the browser extension. This is a small download that interfaces with your web browser. Once installed, you can select any wine on any webpage, 'right click' on your highlighted selection & select 'Find on Vinopedia'.  This will take you straight to any information they have for that particular wine. A mighty helpful tool.

There is a demonstration on how this works on the Vinopedia webpage. Simply click the icon below to have a look. Definately worth checking out.

-Andrew