Media Coverage
- Wired Magazine, August 4, 2008
- That Shiraz Goes Great with Led Zepplin
- "Snooth, which recommends wines for specific users based on a database of around two million ratings, has added a blog category dedicated to pairing wine with music."
- Wine & Spirits Magazine, Fall 2008 Issue
- Innovations in Wine Retail
- "This slick site gathers data from more than 1,000 retailers to sort by price and location. But it also adds a community function … where users can … get wine recommendations from their proprietary algorithm."
- CNET TV, July 31, 2008
- Loaded: Oenophilia
- "Snooth … its my favorite new social network"
- New Jersey Star Ledger, July 18, 2008
- Wines that won’t break the bank
- "Order online from sites such as … snooth.com."
- Wines-Info, June 30, 2008
- Snooth与《葡萄酒爱好者》联手举办有奖注册活动
- "世界最大综合性葡萄酒评论网站Snooth"
- WCBS NewsRadio, June 10, 2008
- Vino! On the Web
- "It can be tough to remember all the wines you’ve tasted. Snooth.com is a great website with a database of over 2 million reviews…search the term "spicy pinot noir" and Snooth will find your new favorite bottle…this is a great tool for any wine lover."
- Crenk, June 4, 2008
- Where Do You Head To Rate Beer?
- "…no site has been able to establish the equivalent to what Snooth has done in the wine industry. Snooth has a brilliant looking site that in as equally rich in features as it is in user contributions."
- MainStreet, May 22, 2008
- Lorraine Bracco's Second Act Is Going Grape
- "Generation Y is full of wine fans who turn to social networking sites such as Snooth … where members aggregate critical scores of wines."
- E-Consultancy, May 2, 2008
- Site Review: Snooth
- "Thanks to the impressive range of wines and merchants, the site is a very useful way of finding a good bottle of wine. …it is an excellent resource."
- Inertia Beverage Group, April 30, 2008
- Wine Industry People with Strong Kung Foo
- "Wine techie Kung Foo. Philip James - Snooth.com"
- Search Engine Land, April 29, 2008
- Wine search engine Snooth goes global!
- Alt Search Engines, April 29, 2008
- Wine search engine Snooth goes global!
- "Snooth, the world’s most comprehensive wine review site, today announced a substantial international expansion, making the site immediately relevant for wine drinkers worldwide."
- Fermentation, April 29, 2008
- What Does it All Mean?
- "… respondents view wine pricing information better on the Internet than in print publications. This should be no surprise thanks in large part to folks like … Snooth."
- Geeksugar, April 23, 2008
- Website of the day: Snooth
- "Snooth is a new social network, but it has a great premise that appeals to a weakness of mine — the wine-loving weakness."
- Center Networks, April 16, 2008
- Snooth Announces Worldwide Wine Expansion
- "[The worldwine expansion] makes the site more comprehensive than only covering wine in the U.S. and should bring a new userbase to the network"
- Vator TV, April 16, 2008
- Snooth brings place shifting to wine lovers
- "Snooth, the wine pricing and recommendation site, has just done a huge favor to oenophiles around the globe."
- Mashable, April 15, 2008
- Attention Wine Snobs: Snooth.com Goes Global
- "Snooth helps you get what you need in ways that, in my own view, ranks it at or near the top of its class … Snooth is undoubtedly an appealing choice for wine lovers and curious newbies alike, and one I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend."
- Inertia Beverage Group, April 09, 2008
- Checking in on “Hopes for 2008”
- "A Wine 2.0 company will become meaningful to helping connect consumers to wineries. UPDATE - lots of companies vying for this title - current leaders: Crushpad and Snooth"
- Imbibing Online, March/April 2008 Print Edition
- "…making the Web a more delicious place, one post at a time. Snooth.com: Write and read user-driven wine reviews, and search for your next favorite grapes."
- Alt Search Engines, March, 2008
- The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
- Mashable, February 25, 2008
- 30+ Resources For Enjoying And Learning About Wine
- "A database of thousands of wines, and millions of reviews, Snooth aims to help you find new wines for you to try based on past favorites."
- The next web, February 12, 2008
- Alcohol2.0 - An overview of the best wine services
- "Snooth…millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines that make the service memorable. Suitable for aspiring and casual wine drinkers, Snooth offers personal recommendations."
- Washington Post, December 29, 2007
- Online Networking Goes Small, and Sponsors Follow
- "Wine connoisseurs have formed Snooth.com"
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 11, 2007
- What's Online
- "Snooth.com: Like an Amazon.com for wine, Snooth gives personal recommendations based upon your preferences and what your friends are drinking."
- PSFK, November 28, 2007
- Red, Good With Steak
- "allows users to build and manage their personal wine collection, maintain wish lists, track reviews and keep detailed notes about their personal impressions."
- TechCrunch, November 28, 2007
- Wine 2.0 Site, Snooth, Raises $1 Million Angel Round
- "…I …like the Ajax interface. There are sliders to narrow your search by price and vintage. And there is natural-language search, so it knows what a "spicy cab" means. The ratings for wines I know seem to be on the money."
- Mashable, November 27 2007
- Snooth This: $1M for Wine Review Site
- "...Since launching, Snooth has been layering in more social functionality, making it easier to track your wine lists, ratings, and follow the expertise of other users. Wine is unsurprisingly a popular genre for niche social networking..".
- Webware (CNET), November 27 2007
- Snooth Knows Wine Lingo
- "...It adds up to a very smooth experience, and the site's social network features round it out. You can find people who like the same wines you like, for example, and track their rating and purchasing of new bottles..."
- New York Post, November 25, 2007
- No Bottle Rockets
- ...Philip James, founder of the six-month-old wine-shopping blog Snooth.com, says it's a natural response to the growing trend of the past couple years. "2005 was the first time wine was listed as the most popular drink by the average American," he says. "That was the first time it won out over beer."...
- New York Post, November 25, 2007
- Tips On Sips
- Finally, Philip James of Snooth.com weighs in your best bet as far as regions go: "I would say a huge generalization is to go for the New World," he says.
- Waitrose, November 2007
- The World of Drink
- "A new online wine service, snooth.com, hopes to become a kind of Facebook for the wine world. It may not sell wine but it already has a database of more than one million reviews, from the public and established critics."
- The Strong Buzz, November 12 2007
- Thanksgiving 101: Wine Help
- "For Thanksgiving, Snooth has built a dedicated page geared toward what to drink. You'll find ten wines that can take you from appetizers right through pie."
- New York Daily News, November 9 2007
- How to have a mail-order Thanksgiving: The Wine
- "The massive searchable database holds reviews of hundreds of thousands of wines, by wine writers and members of the site. Plug in "Thanksgiving" - or just head to www.snooth.com/thanksgiving - and you'll get top choices for turkey-friendly wines..."
- Rare Daily, November 7 2007
- Best Weekend Ever
- "You're a wine spectator and a wine enthusiast. Do yourself a favor and check out Snooth, the new IMDB-meets-wine reviews website. They've got almost 2 million reviews to search from. Plus, it's free.."
- Gothamist, October 8 2007
- The New Kid in Town
- "Probably the best way we can describe Snooth, a unique wine database that recently launched online, would be if the illegitimate web-child of Google and Facebook went to wine school. Or, more simply, it's a ridiculously large database of wine that allows you to do really cool things and share it with your friends."
- Alt Search Engines, September 28 2007
- Well, I heard it through the (Snooth) GrapeVine! "Snooth is a social shopping experience that is simplifying how people select and purchase their favorite wines."
- Silicon Alley Insider, August 20 2007
- Introducing Our New Company Rating System
- "Companies That Are Cool: Snooth - The best wine-review site."
- Epicurious, August 16 2007
- Two Million Wine Reviews and Counting
- "Snooth…aggregates more than two million wine reviews…exploit[s] the concept of social networking by allowing its database to be accessed from within Facebook…Do any of you wine lovers know of a better (free) site for reviews?"
- Decanter, August 14 2007
- Wine sites cash in on Facebook phenomenon
- "A new online wine service hopes to become the world's busiest cyber wine recommendations site."
- Thrillist, August 1 2007
- The whole Snooth
- "Looking for that next superlative bottle? Check out Snooth. Snooth's the world's largest vino-database — a burgeoning repository of 300,000+ wines, all meticulously sorted, categorized, tagged, and rated by sommeliers/enthusiasts/compulsive raters."
- Silicon Alley Insider, July 27 2007
- Snooth: Best Wine Review Site
- "Snooth may not be the snazziest Facebook app for showing off your rack, but its site is better than competitors. My search for Sebastiani Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 returned just what I was looking for, along with a well-deserved 'SnoothRank' of 4 out of 5. By contrast, Corkd returned the wrong vintage, Bottle Talk came up empty, and Winelog didn't offer any ratings or reviews"
- Read/Write Web, July 25 2007
- What's in a name? Snooth
- "Snooth is one of our favorite Alternative Search Engines, and lately it s been growing like gangbusters!"
- Springwise, July 22 2007
- Direct searching and selling from vine to table
- "Snooth's database is far more extensive and its search engine more sophisticated"
- Josh Spear, July 19 2007
- Snooth
- "Snooth provides a simple "SnoothRank" value which is calculated using a…proprietary algorithm. It takes things like reviews, number of reviews, and how trusted each review is into account and returns a simple value which will help you in your wine purchasing decision... …I particularly like the "intelligent" searching algorithm which let you type in things like red good with steak. Next time, before you head to the wine aisle, check Snooth out. Who knows, you might end up with a new favorite."
- Webware (CNET), July 17 2007
- Whine about wine with Snooth
- "I like Snooth. I think it's simple to use, and does its job. After just five ratings you start getting recommendations, which is handy."
- Specialty Wine Retailers Association, June 27 2007
- Tip of the Week
- "Snooth.com is similar in nature to WineSearcher.com, but with a more robust search engine and user-generated content."
- Mashable, June 7 2007
- Drinkers paradise: the top social networks where alcohol is allowed
- "Once you create an account and post reviews, Snooth will start to recommend wines for you. The service also includes links to buy wine from partners."
