Recently, while looking for a wine, I stumbled across the website
wineaccess.com. It requires free registration and has a number of
features, including a search engine of wine retailers. I've tried it,
and it isn't as comprehensive as wine-searcher.com, but might very well
be complementary. For instance, when putting 2002 Ridge Geyserville
into both engines, I get 42 hits in wineaccess and 148 in wine-searcher
(of which 42 are made available without the Pro version). The
wineaccess search engine also tells me which retailers will ship to my
location (not a small thing when you live in Indiana).

Anyone had any dealings with them?

I can tell you that it is somewhat expensive to have your wines listed
on their site. So if a retailer is paying that price, one would assume
they are at least somewhat established. A retailer can list for free
on wine-searcher, but can pay to have their wines given preferential
standing. This would explain why wine-searcher turns up more total
results.

There is another option as well: www.winezap.com. They are still
smaller than the other two, but when you're on the hunt.....

Mark,
I'm pretty sure that winesearcher gives you every hit you get from
wineaccess. Wineaccess just gives you the wines (plus Tanzer scores,
and some "consumer" ratings) from their members. But part of
wineaccess's service to their stores is linking with winesearcher.

PS of course, 42 hits on wineaccess probably equals 39 branches of
Total Wine, plus 3 independents.

DaleW wrote:
PS of course, 42 hits on wineaccess probably equals 39 branches of
Total Wine, plus 3 independents.


LOL!! That's pretty close, Dale. Thanks for the info.

Mark Lipton

e. winemonger wrote:
I can tell you that it is somewhat expensive to have your wines listed
on their site. So if a retailer is paying that price, one would assume
they are at least somewhat established. A retailer can list for free
on wine-searcher, but can pay to have their wines given preferential
standing. This would explain why wine-searcher turns up more total
results.

There is another option as well: www.winezap.com. They are still
smaller than the other two, but when you're on the hunt.....


Aha. Thanks, Emily.

Mark Lipton

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:22:55 -0500, Mark Lipton said:

] Recently, while looking for a wine, I stumbled across the website
] wineaccess.com. It requires free registration and has a number of
] features, including a search engine of wine retailers. I've tried it,
] and it isn't as comprehensive as wine-searcher.com, but might very well
] be complementary. For instance, when putting 2002 Ridge Geyserville
] into both engines, I get 42 hits in wineaccess and 148 in wine-searcher
] (of which 42 are made available without the Pro version). The
] wineaccess search engine also tells me which retailers will ship to my
] location (not a small thing when you live in Indiana).
]
] Anyone had any dealings with them?
]

Hi Mark,

I've dealt with them a couple of times. I was able to find a few
obscure things through them, like Roger Perrin, when in SF.

Never had a problem.

-E
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Emery Davis
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by removing the well known companies

Dale here is a tip...you only get lots of Total wine hits of you put in
mass produced wine.

Look at twomey 2001 and see what comes up.


"DaleW" wrote in message
ups.com...
PS of course, 42 hits on wineaccess probably equals 39 branches of
Total Wine, plus 3 independents.

"here is a tip...you only get lots of Total wine hits of you put in
mass produced wine.

Look at twomey 2001 and see what comes up."

Errrr, 70 hits. None Total, but not exactly exclusive (and not
something I'd search for sans prompting. WAYYYY to oaky for me).

cheers!

Oops, that was Winesearcher. Just 10 hits on wineaccess.