I’ve been hearing a lot lately about Snooth becoming the number one wine site (in terms of traffic) for people logging in wine reviews, keeping track of their cellars, and searching for wine to buy. Personally, I still use Cellartracker and Wine-Searcher for these purposes, and I wonder if I’m really that far behind the curve.

It’s not that I don’t believe the folks at Snooth; I think Philip et al are nice people with an interesting business model — not to mention an amazing ability to raise VC (I wish I had the latter skill). It’s just that I see many people remain attached to the same patterns as mine, patterns that involve using multiple sites that with inferior graphics compared to Snooth, but powerful abilities to perform a singular, dominant task. I’m just looking for some insight.

Can you let me know what sites you use for logging your inventory, entering tasting notes, and searching for online sources of product? You can select up to two of the answers in this poll, but if you select multiple sites, any explanation you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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If you’re interested in wine and want a way to keep track of wines you’ve tasted, or bottles in your collection, a great place to do so is the site CellarTracker. Go over there and familiarize yourself with it. It’s really easy to use and offers the largest database of wines, along with a huge community of users who frequently post tasting notes.

Eric LeVine, the mastermind behind CellarTracker has recently become a Twitter user. You can follow him on Twitter here. And in a very significant feature addition to CellarTracker, Eric has just enabled Twitter functionality for all CellarTracker users, so that when you write a new tasting note, it will automatically post to Twitter with a link back to the CellarTracker data. Eric’s explanation and instructions can be found here.

This combo of two killer apps, a niche wine community with a Web 2.0 pioneer, could be a game changer.

(My apologies to Tim Elliott whose voice I seem to be parroting with this post!)