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Jan 02, 2007
1 year, 9 months ago

1Wine searches

I just did a search for "Taz Pinot Noir", but am not sure which wine to select to review. It seems somewhat ambiguous. Some are more specifically labeled than others. thanks!

AndyH
23 posts

Jan 12, 2007
1 year, 9 months ago

2Re: Wine searches

Thanks for your question. On the wine search results page, each wine "hit" you see is a wine we found for sale at an online wine retailer. You can click on the retailer link to go to that site to buy that wine.

When you see many wines with the same exact name it's usually because it's a popular wine, hence, many retailers are selling it.

The reason some of the wine names vary is because wineries will usually make more than one wine for a given varietal, depending on, for instance, where the grapes were grown. It's a good idea to have the bottle in hand during your review, or at least jot the name down so you can be more specific in your search if need be.

Thanks again, and let us know if you have any other questions.

John
52 posts

Jan 12, 2007
1 year, 9 months ago

3Re: Wine searches

Hi S -

So I did your search and got things like ...
Taz Pinot Noir Fiddlestix
Taz Pinot Noir
Taz Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara
Taz Fiddlesticks Pinot Noir

Ya i understand that is confusing.

Here's the deal. Ideally, if our website was super smart (hint it's not) then we would know that those are actually all the same wine, and then, no matter which one you selected to review, all those wines would tie to your review.

The prob is this; we don't know that those are all the same wine. And here's why... in some cases, those actually *would* be different wines.

For example, Sterling is a huge wine producer, and they make about 4 types of merlots. Here are 3 of those *different* wine names ....

Sterling Vineyards Napa Merlot Reserve
Sterling Vineyards Napa Merlot
Sterling Vineyards Napa Merlot 3 Palms

So let's say that for your Taz search, we just said the hell with it, lets group all of those together and show a consistent name. Bam, no confusion on your end.

But we would then have to apply the same logic to the Sterling merlots, and would then lump 3 totally different merlots into the same group. Hence making the reviews pretty worthless because the reserve is now lumped in w/ their cheaper brands ....

So long story short. There's no winning solution -- well there probably is but we'd need a few phd's from google involved and Andy would definately have to be fired. haha, just kidding.

Anyways, we are definately working hard to make groupings better and actually, the next release (around 1/14/07) will have better groupings. Things like "Ch." vs "Chateau" and "Cab" vs "Cabernet" will be considered identical.

Enjoy and thanks for using vinquire -