Vinogusto.com went live in May 2007 and has over 3.000 registered users today. Lately, our wine community welcomes 15 new users daily. Besides, over 5.000 winelovers visit us daily and enjoy the reviews of 23.952 wines and 37.439 adresses.
Vinogusto, the 2.0 community for wine lovers, increases its capital by 200.000 euros.
The objective is to improve its functionality as social network in order to provide even more complete services to its users and clients. In the investment, wich will be effective March 25th, are participating multiple recognized web enterpreneurs, such as the founder of Meetic , Christophe Salanon; the founder of Toprural.com and partner of 11870.com, François Derbaix; the founder of Rentalia.com, Marta Esteve; and the Ebay Belgium member, Alexis Vandewyer.
This decision comes as an answer to the continuous and rapid growth in visits that Vinogusto has experienced over the last 4 months (400%) which resulted into a significant increase of users and clients of the sector, looking for presence and visibility on the Internet.
Vinogusto was created 9 months ago by the Belgians Marc Roisin & Laurent Mikolajczak with the purpose of offering wine lovers like themselves a place to share their passion in a one of its kind Web 2.0 environment.
Vinogusto is available in four languages (Spanish, French, English and Dutch), totalizes over 150.000 visits monthly today, offers information on more than 25.000 wines and 35.000 addresses with more than 45.000 users’comments, along with content on winetourism, wine and food pairing, etc…
All of this turned Vinogusto into the most important wine related social network in Europe and an important promotion space for the companies of the sector.
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We spent some time to improve the overall application performances (meaning the loading time of each web site page) in order, first, not to handicap the overall site by a resource consuming page, but also to offer to our visitors a fast navigation experience.
To summarize, the application is fast, the code is “clean” and what is sent to your browser is optimized for a very fast display.
On the 28 August, we migrated vinogusto.com from the small (but still quite effective) server that served the site towards a new more powerful dedicated server. Vinogusto is still hosted at ovh (one of the biggest hosting European company) and will benefit from a powerful server that should offer correct performances for the year to come.
We observed that at least 2 AD blocking tools has been disabling all places pictures on Vinogusto.com.
- Symantec internet security suite, with its default options
- Maxthon Tabbed Browser
The effect was the disappearing of all places pictures (the right column of the homepage), on the whole website. Those software make it silently by erasing without warning the <img … html tags.
We corrected the problem that was due to a directory badly named (’ad’ for address)…
We’re sorry not to have pointed the problem sooner.
If you want to read the wine reviews of your friends, just add them to your contacts when visiting their page. You find the latest reviews of your friends in the ‘Contacts’ tab of your page.
You can differenciate contacts and trusted contacts. You are the only one to see this classification.
Vinogusto really gets interesting when you can read what you’re friends are drinking. Don’t hesitate and invite them to join Vinogusto.
Vinogusto aims at providing an independent place of exchange where all wine amateurs’ opinions are taken into account and considered as valuable. Indeed, Vinogusto does not share the idea according to which only the opinions of wine specialists or gurus are of interest. On the contrary, who better than my friends, neighbors, family members or wine amateurs in general could represent an objective and open minded jury to express tastes, encourage discoveries and share tips about wine?
Tasting notes, comments on the last visited producers, advice on a cave, vine variety, wine bar, vintage, online store or wine event: share your opinion on Vinogusto!
Vinogusto accommodates the world of the wine as a whole: comments on wines of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace, California, Chile, Australia, Spain, Italy…
They’re are all welcome on Vinogusto.
Vinogusto does not produce nor sell wine.
As Vinogusto.com is online, why don’t you create your page and try it ?
Due to some technical problems, our website was down for about 20 hours last weekend. By now, everything should work well again. Sorry about that.
The Vinogusto Team
