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Just labels

We’ve been working on creating different and interesting views for your wines.

We’ve recently added a nice little touch that allows you to see just the labels on your wines. To view them look for these buttons on your wines page:

Here’s how the just labels view looks like:

Click the image to see a live example. Hope you like it!

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Special Twinelis + Twittlis. Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Wednesday July 1 we will be doing a special Twinelis (our monthly meetup) in Lisbon!

The event will take place between 7pm and 10pm and Sala Ogival de Lisboa. (map)

Anyone can come. No signup is necessary so you can just join us there. However you can lets us know your’re coming.

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Very special edition
We’ve joined up Twittlis with Twinelis and with the support of ViniPortugal’s beautiful Sala Ogival de Lisboa we’ll have the opportunity to try some of the best Portuguese wines and cheeses. Note: It will cost €5 per person.

Photos from past editions of both events:

Join us there!

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Homepage updated. Added Tags, Varietal & Latest notes

Our homepage has been updated to show more of what is happening on Adegga.

Most popular tags
The Most popular tags section shows the 50 most used tags and clicking on any of them will reveal all tagged wines.

Top Varietals
Before the new search engine it wasn’t possible to search wines by varietal even though that information was always available. Now not only you can search by varietal but we’ve also added a nice list of the top varietals on Adegga.

Latest notes
We’ve also decided to display a list of latest reviews made on wines (instead of always showing the top wines by winerank) to show how alive the community is.

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New on Adegga Mobile: Members Profiles & Wines

We’ve just updated the mobile version of Adegga to include user profiles and wine lists.

Previously you could only search wines and check reviews and prices. Now we’ve added members profiles and access to cellars, tasted, wishlists and favourites. This way it is now much easier to check your wines or your friends wine lists using your mobile.

It’s a website and not an application so any mobile enable with Internet access should be able to visit the site.

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New Powerful Search Engine

We’ve just launched a new search engine for Adegga. You can now easily search wine names, vintages, grapes, tags and more. Here are a few search examples:

By grape: Cabernet Sauvignon, Touriga Nacional, Syrah or Merlot.
By tag: wbw38, liwf09, ewbc2008
Order any results by WineRank, Top Rated Wines, Top Favourites, Top Wishlist

New search box with options

Filter results

It’s now possible (and fast) to filter down results. Try for example searching for all spanish red wines from 2004.

More result details

Results now include a bigger wine label but also tags and grapes associated with a wine. We’ve also started including the unique wine number, the AVIN, to make it easier to access this number from anywhere.

Advanced search syntax

For the more experienced wine lovers out there the new search also allows to build more complex queries just like Google does. A few examples:

• Wines with Cabernet OR Syrah: Cabernet | Syrah
• Wines with Cabernet but NOT Syrah: Cabernet -Syrah
• Wines with Cima on the name: @name cima
• Wines that match the phase “Cortes de cima”: “Cortes de cima”

Remember that you can always search Adegga directly from your browser (like you do with Google). Just add the Adegga search box using these simple steps.

Hope this makes Adegga even easier to use. Let us know if you find any problems or have suggestions.

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Changes to our blog

The Adegga Blog is now fully integrated into the main site.

The blog exists mostly to talk about what is happening around the community and, for that reason, we feel that members should be able to participate in more integrated way, so we’ve changed a couple of things.

Adegga user accounts
When are you’re logged in on Adegga your comments will be signed with your username and link back to your profile.

Adegga design
The design of the blog is now the same as the main site making it easier to search wines, navigate, etc. without the need to jump to a different site.

We hope this move increases participation on the blog and helps sparkle the discussion within the community.

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Now in Dutch!

Adegga is now available in Dutch!

I would gladly say these words in Nederlands but I can’t. The Dutch version of Adegga was completely translated by Ivan van der Tuuk and finished less than 2 weeks after he first started looking at the translation files. Impressive work.

Ivan lives in the Netherlands and is passionate about wine. He owns an online wine shop so if you’re visiting from the Netherlands be sure to check his wines.

Cheering crowds with the new language on Adegga! Ok…it’s just a football photo.
(Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

As with all translators we’ll be sending Ivan a special Adegga gift for his support of the project! Thank you!

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New AVIN.cc short URL service

Short URLs services make it easier to share links with other people. TinyURL and bit.ly are two of the most famous and even Amazon is now offering a shortening service at amzn.com.

Being a platform for sharing wine we had to create our own short url service and what better than the AVIN (the ISBN for wine) and its domain at avin.cc to be used for this.

Basically our service is limited to the wines on Adegga but for any wine there’s a avin.cc url. The new URLs start with “avin.cc” and should then be followed by a wine’s unique number, an AVIN. For example, the short URL for the wine Cortes de Cima 2004 is: http://avin.cc/AVIN1236103638140

The new URL is available on the sidebar of any wine page to make it easier to share a wine on services like Twitter or Facebook.