The truth lies in the wine, the wine community “The friend of wine”
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I will for rewards that I write about a product, service or website and not sure that I write positive about it.
Wine is a wonderful stimulant for many people to come to rest from the stressful working day or just a nice day to enjoy.
Last but not least many self-employed resort to the bottle in the positive sense and treat yourself to a good wine.
Of course wine on the Web is an important issue and a small but fine wine community has asked me to write something about it.
I do of course like to as regular wine drinker.
The wine friend
The portal “The wine friends” is still relatively young. Since September 2008 wine lovers find a platform there, to get in touch with each other and get many information about new wines and Wine Classic.
But not only wine lovers are welcome here. Also wine here a platform to exchange ideas and present itself.
Overall “the wine friend” makes a very pleasant and friendly first impression even if not the most modern.
But let us look at times more features and content.
Wine information
Information about wines and wineries are a large section of the website.
The wine, but also especially the wine novice find many wines and they are of course date.
There also some images, descriptive text and a few data, how temperature and this wine goes with what food.
This gives the interested in some information about the wines offered and he can find the right wine well made search.
Of course, one must be careful reviews and descriptions, because these were entering from the wine growers. Because you should take care to the comments of other users.
Keyword “Wine”. They may participate as said also actively. So have entered previously 69 wineries.
Thus the vineyards growing slowly but surely. 18 cases have opened own wine shop on DOMAIN.COM and therefore opened an additional distribution channel.
I am very glad this integration of winemakers but they ensure also content and added value. Can only hope that the wine drinker are also very active and also realistic feedback.
If this balance work, this could be what.
The community
And since we are in the community. This plays an important role on DOMAIN.COM.
Can the user of course replace in a forum and mutually recommend wines or answer questions.
There is also possibility to evaluate wines or write comments about wines.
The Forum has already some posts, but here is certainly need to provide more activity.
Tips for wine enthusiasts
The wine friends like already not bad. But it’s certainly improvement.
Here are a few tips from me:
- There are news which are, however, later hidden on the home page. You can subscribe to this news as RSS feed which is still below hidden. You should show much prominent this users.
- One should also offer a newsletter for unregistered users.
- The look is okay, but as more images for the wines should be installed. A wine presentation without images is sub-optimal. Also I imagine well more pictures at the launch of the wineries.
- Wine search must also be optimized. It comes easy to often note “nothing found”. The search should be more tolerant and not one hundred percent matching results.
- An idea might organise a competition in cooperation with a winemaker or beglucken the most active users with wine packages. So you could increase the activity of users.
Conclusion
All in all a nice little community that although comes with a feature overkill (and this is even positive), but makes a nice impression.
If the user to ensure that the presentation of wine producers remains realistic / is and is not just advertising, then a good basis is safe.
At the end, much of the commitment of the operator and a handful of heavy user depends in such communities need every community.
Remains to be seen as further developed the portal.
Let you taste. :-)