Starting in January 2009, Vinogusto welcomes professionals of the wine sector.

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Who we are?
Vinogusto.com is an online wine and winetourism guide based around consummers’ opinion. Our site traffic now reaches up to 500.000 visitors a month and our aim is to help them:
- choose their wines and find places to buy them,
- discover new wineplaces worth a visit. (wineries and producers, cellars & online merchants, restaurants and winebars , lodgings in the wine producing regions,…).

Vinogusto for Wineries and Producers:
We offer you to present your business along with the wines and/or services available to our user community. Our offering to professionals is articulated around three types of yearly subscriptions providing various levels of visibility on our platform (Prestige from 450€/year, Normal from 150€/year and Reduced from 50€/year).

Regardless of the subscription type, our fee includes:
- A detailed presentation with contact information, direct link to your website, practical information such has opening hours, geographical situtaion on map,…
- Description of your service offering: wine tasting sessions, lodging, rural house, animations,…
- An unlimited photo gallery
- Exhaustive presentation of the wines produced
- Price list of the wines for sale at the winery with direct link the realted wine page on your site or contact details
- Publication in 5 languages (English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian)
- Update of your data at any time
- Excellent national and international visibility

How to register?
The professionnal’s corner of our website gives you access to all details regarding our various subscriptions and to our online registration system.

Would you have any questions or need any help, don’t hesitate to contact us

Company Profile:
Vinogusto sprl
TVA : BE889.923.431
Address: Rue J-B Vannypen, 75, 1160 Brussels, Belgium
Website: www.vinogusto.com
Tel : +32 2 672 86 55
Fax : +32 2 792 47 05

On February 13rd, the online wineguide and social networking website Vinogusto.com will officialize a third round of investment with a new raise of 355.000 euros.

The 2008 results confirmed the enormous potential of this wineguide and wine tourism website based on consumers’opinions.
Some key figures:
- 450.000 unique visitors/month (+ 350% increase year to date),
- 100.000 wines and consumers’opinions, 65.000 addresses, 375.000 pictures,
- 100.000 wine offers (online retailers, cellars, wineries direct sales),
- publication in 5 languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch).

The raised funds will be dedicated to 3 main focus areas for 2009:
- permanent improvement of users’ navigation and participation experiences,
- content enrichment, among others through partnerships with recognized critics and experts (Winedecider.com, Toprural.com, and soon Quarin.com and Idealwine.com)
- service offer for professionals of the sector (presentation of wine professional’s businesses along with their wine offer and services),

Vinogusto.com is ahead of Snooth.com
According to Google Trends, the audience of Vinogusto.com is higher than its Snooth.com American counterpart.

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2009 starts up as thrilling and exciting for the entire very motivated team at Vinogusto :-)

Related post on Loogic.com : ” The competition is clearly between Vinogusto and Snooth which has just received an investment of one million dollars as mentioned by François Derbaix, and who practically double the investment received by Vinogusto but the traffic is about the same.”

Ingredients
(4 persons)
Penne 500g
Chorizo 150g, sliced
SunBlush tomatoes 20, chopped
Olives
Flat-leaf parsley chopped
Pepper, salt

Preparation
Cook the pasta according to pack instructions. Meanwhile, cook the chorizo for 2-3 minutes in a non-stick pan. Add the olives, tomato and season. Cook for a couple more minutes then add the pasta and parsley.

Serve with parmesan.

Wine match
Spanish wine from the Navarra region.