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40 Winery Websites For Your Inspiration

40 Winery Websites For Your Inspiration

From the Napa Wineries in California to the vineyards of Australia and France, the beautiful designs of these wine maker’s websites embody the spirit of the vine. Trends for winery websites have been leaning towards a dynamic Flash introduction, animation and beautiful graphics, which would give the best representation of the products for the target market.

While sites have gone in the direction of a more modern and contemporary approach with fresh and sleek designs, others have taken the more traditional route by captivating their users with the bold earthy Tuscan colors and impressive graphics and art.

There is much to consider when designing a site for a wine maker. Use your creativity to promote the wine and winery, so that the quality portrayed encourages users to inquire how to contact, where and how to buy, and even obtain information on upcoming events.

With that in mind, we share with you 40 captivating wine maker’s websites.

By Sharon Ross | Source :: Smashing Magazine

Women & Wine

JulieWine resized Women & Wine is an online community for women who love wine, travel, good food and living well – and who want to feel more confident about their palate and learn more about wine by connecting with like-minded women. Women & Wine has been featured on NBC, CBS, CNN, and in TIME, USA Today, O Oprah Magazine, Bon Appetit and Travel & Leisure.

The Black Winer

According to Zachary Harris, The Black Winer strives to expose African Americans [and others] to wines, without the flair, stuffiness, and airs of elitism and snobbery that you get from sommeliers and high level wine enthusiasts. He believes in finding something that you like the taste of, outside of the basic brands that you have been force-fed over the years through a combination of ethnically targeted advertising, and what people in your family have historically been drinking.

Research identifies the sweet spot for maximizing online wine sales

For online retailers of wine, there can be too much of a good thing when it comes to the size of the assortment. The sweet spot for maximizing wine sales online is in the range of 1,500 to 2,000 items, according to research from Bottlenose, an e-commerce platform vendor that specializes in setting up, hosting and managing online stores for wine and spirits retailers.

Read the full article.

Able Grape: Wine Search Engine

The beta release of Able Grape, a search engine for wine information, went live on Monday night. Able Grape aims to be the world’s most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative source for online wine information. Able Grape is a little different than your usual search engine, with numerous wine-specific features and a few twists to help you find things faster.

Able Grape is the inspiration of Doug Cook, a former search executive at Inktomi and Yahoo and began a couple of years ago whilst he was studying for the WSET Diploma qualification, and realized just how difficult it can be to find up-to-date, trustworthy wine information on the web. He found himself digging through a lot of commercial, introductory, or out-of-date content to find a few nuggets of good information. So he decided to make a web site sharing the sites he’d found with others. But soon enough, serious obsession set in, and the modest bookmark list grew into a full-blown search engine with more than 32,000 sites and some 10 million pages.

The guiding philosophy has always been the same: build the tool that we ourselves would want to use for wine research and learning.