| Website | corksavvy.com |
| @corksavvy | |
| Category | Other |
| Employees | 10 |
| Founded | 2/07 |
| Description | Where Wine Lovers Get Savvy |
CorkSavvy is a free, one-stop resource for everyone from casual wine drinkers to obsessive collectors.
• E-Cellar & Wine Journal: The E-Cellar & Wine Journal section of the site allows users to create a free “virtual wine cellar,” where they can quickly catalog and organize wines that they own, like, or wish to buy. To add a bottle to the E-Cellar, users simply search CorkSavvy’s database, find the wine they are looking for, and click “choose this bottle;” or they can quickly fill out an online form to add a bottle manually. What’s more, wine lovers can upload photos of their bottles and write entries in a private Wine Journal to record the occasion or meal in which they enjoyed a bottle in their E-Cellar.
• Savvy Reporter: The editors at CorkSavvy, led by Editorial Director Jill Sloane, compose original feature articles about wine (in the section titled “Our Savvy Reporter”), recommend a great bottle every week (“Jill’s Wine of the Week”), conduct interviews with winemakers and sommeliers, offer wine-and-food-pairing suggestions, and respond to questions from readers (in the already popular “Ask CorkSavvy” column). Every week, these stories and tips are also sent to mailing list subscribers as part of the CorkSavvy Newsletter.
• Wine News: CorkSavvy’s editorial team compiles the best wine-related articles and news items from around the world and posts a daily list of links to keep visitors in the know.
• Restaurant Wine Lists: For wine enthusiasts looking to enjoy a bottle at a restaurant in their own city or while traveling, CorkSavvy has, for the first time on the web, made the wine lists of # restaurants around the world available in one place. In the “Restaurant Wine Lists” section, users can search by name and location, find a restaurant, and then simply click “View” to be directed to the wine list on the restaurant’s own web site (thus ensuring that the information is as up-to-date as possible).
• Global Winery Directory: With the Global Winery Directory, users can search the world’s wineries by name, country, region, and more. Each winery’s profile includes contact information, a link to the web site, a list of wines produced, and special features like “Certified Organic.”
• Bottle Search: Getting more granular than the Global Winery Directory, the Bottle Search feature gives users access to detailed information on individual bottles of wine (for example, through the Winery Directory you might look up and learn about Cakebread Cellars, and in the Bottle Search you might search for Cakebread’s 2002 Merlot). In addition to finding the vintage, region, and grapes for each bottle, users can add bottles to their E-Cellar with the click of a button (specifically, the “Add to Cellar” button).
• Events Calendar: Since getting savvy about wine also requires oenophiles to step away from the keyboard and taste some juice, CorkSavvy offers a calendar of noteworthy wine-related events around the world.
• Mobile Capabilities and Facebook: CorkSavvy’s robust collection of features is available to wine lovers who are on the move, too—by downloading the mobile version of CorkSavvy, users can access all of the site’s content, including the E-Cellar application, from anywhere. In fact, users can even snap a photo of a bottle with an iPhone or other Smartphone, email it to CorkSavvy, and then it will be available for use in their E-Cellar. And recognizing the social function of wine, CorkSavvy has created a Facebook application that allows users to update and share the contents of their E-Cellars from right within Facebook. In the short time that the CorkSavvy Facebook application has been available, more than 5,000 Facebook users have downloaded it.
