17 Responses to “The Rise of Snooth?”

1. RichardA
   February 9th, 2009 at 10:34 am

   I actually don’t use any cellar mgmt program. I use a simple word doc to keep a list of my current inventory. My own blog serves as my source of my prior tasting notes.

   To me, it seems a lot of extra work to have to type in my inventory and tasting notes into any of the online cellar mgmt services. And I don’t see any real payoff for me to do so.

   As I rarely order wine online, muchly due to MA laws, I also don’t spend much time checking online prices.

2. dhonig
   February 9th, 2009 at 10:36 am

   I find Snooth pretty clunky for entering wines and for posting reviews.

3. Dirty
   February 9th, 2009 at 10:59 am

   I really like Snooth’s interface, their community features are slick (though I’m not sure if I would participate), and they seem to have a great crew, but a huge challenge for me is that I can only locate a fraction of my wines on their site. (I do have some weird stuff, but 99% of it is on cellartracker)

   I’ve been a cellartracker user for years. The UI is a bit dated, but their database of wines, years of notes, pricing data, reporting, drinking windows, etc. is insane.

   I’d love to see a best of both worlds site.

4. dhonig
   February 9th, 2009 at 11:05 am

   Is anybody getting Snooth spam comments? I like Snooth. I think they’re working hard. But I got a comment at 2 Days per Bottle pimping Snooth, and I already have a link to it on the site. That always makes me uncomfortable.

5. Dr. Debs
   February 9th, 2009 at 11:40 am

   I use CellarTracker. It’s simple and you don’t have to go through 75 windows to enter information–not that you do on Snooth, but there definitely are more steps involved. And the sheer amount of information on CT versus anyone else is staggering.

   What will be interesting to see is if the CellarTracker upgrades slotted for this year take a great thing and make it better, or if they add so many bells and whistles and pop up gizmos that they make it worse. The new Twitter feature for CTracker is great, and suggests new features will be as well.

   Time will tell. In general, I think people stick with their first choice in CManagement Tools, so the thing is to get new users. Once you have them, my sense is they stick with you.

6. Adam Levin
   February 9th, 2009 at 11:53 am

   @dhonig: Sorry about asking you to link to Snooth when you already do. Thanks for doing that in the first place, though.

7. oolah
   February 9th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

   I use CellarTracker. I really want to like Snooth — it’s SO MUCH better-looking and the interface is more intuitive, but the data just isn’t there yet.

   1) The community at CT contributes much better tasting notes. The ones at Snooth are like “dude, this wine is awesome!” Not helpful. :/

   2) I never have to enter wines at CT, no matter how obscure, and it’s always clear which wine I mean — at Snooth there’s lots of dupes, garbage data and missing wines.

   CT is redoing their interface. The Snooth database is getting bigger and smarter. My guess is that the playing field will be a lot more even in the coming months, when CT looks better and Snooth gets better data.

8. Gary
   February 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

   I use Vinfolio’s Vincellar. I tried Snooth but couldn’t figure out how to add a wine to my collection.

9. Michael
   February 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   Anybody using http://www.vinoo.eu? It’s European and they are launching in different languages soon. Personally I like that, Snooth in my opinion is to much a .com type of environment. Isn’t it interesting what the French think of their ‘own’ wine?

10. Kori
    February 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    I use Vinfolio’s VinCellar for cellar management and Wine-Searcher for wine searches.

11. d547
    February 9th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    All interesting responses. Of course this poll lacks any sort of scientific methodology, but it’s intriguing nonetheless. Hopefully more people will weigh in with their thoughts!

    Deb, I hadn’t thought about people sticking with the tool they start out using (and therefore attracting new users being the primary goal for these sites) but that’s a particularly strong point.

    Somewhere out there Steve Bachmann is probably cursing me for leaving off VinCellar, so my apologies for that oversight.

    I’m intrigued by Adegga getting so many of the early votes here but nobody actually mentioning them in the comments. Anybody who chose Adegga, feel free to elaborate! Please!

12. Martin
    February 9th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Does adegga really get much traffic? Google trends suggests they do not; http://trends.google.com/websites?q=adegga.+com%2C+cellartracker.com%2C+corkd.com%2C+snooth.com%2C+wine-searcher.com&geo=all&date=2008&sort=1.

    Vinogusto.com and verema.com are two European sites that get as much traffic as the US based wine commuinity sites.

13. Andre Ribeirinho
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:10 am

    Martin, traffic doesn’t vote, community does!

    Jill, thanks for posting this. It’s really interesting to understand how we all use different sites and all for different reasons. I would say that wine sites are at least as diversified (and complex) as their beloved social object.

14. LuvsChandon
    February 10th, 2009 at 8:37 am

    I’ve tried all the sites but Adegga, never heard of that. I’ve invested my time in Cellar Tracker for ease of use and most of my wine buddies use it as well, fun to read what they are drinking and have cellared.

15. Fred Wong
    February 11th, 2009 at 11:47 am

    Oolah - I just saw that Snooth released a tool that allows people to import their notes from other services:
    http://www.snooth.com/notes-import/

    I’ll be interested to see if that helps them get the content you talk about any faster.

16. Irene King
    February 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    I used to track everything on an Excel spreadsheet. Snooth, while pretty, doesn’t do a lot for my “function is the only purpose” mentality. Some things I just don’t need pretty pictures with. I can download Cellartracker into Excel to check my inventory, and I can take a look at everything in whatever order I want. That’s all I need. Cellartracker rocks.

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