New Features on Calwineries are Officially Live
Since Calwineries launched in November, we have been trying to connect our users and visitors to California’s wine country. California is a huge state, and is considered by many to be its own independent wine producing country. To help bridge the gap, we have recently launched a couple of new features to foster a deeper connection to California and its wine.
Rather than trying to tell you what to like, we wanted to let you decide for yourself. For each winery and wine, you can click the “mark as favorite” button which saves that page to your profile as a bookmark.
Rather than organizing the wines and wineries alphabetically, we decided to organize them based on their popularity in our community. Each time someone marks a wine or winery as a favorite, the number in the favorites ticker increases. Our winery and wine pages are organized so that the most popular are at the top, which hopefully makes these pages more relevant to you.
Marking a winery as a favorite not only keeps track of what you like, but it also keeps you up to date with that winery. In your profile, you can see any recent news from the wineries you marked as favorites. You can also sign up for the RSS feed and get the news sent straight into your RSS reader. By visiting your profile, you can see any recent news or releases from your favorites.
The most recent addition to Calwineries is functionality that allows you to sign up for winery mailing lists and wine clubs. This is the next step in connecting you to your favorite wineries and wines. Instead of having to go to each winery website to sign up for mailings, you can do it straight through Calwineries.
We are proud to welcome Inertia Beverage Group to the Calwineries family. Inertia is an industry leader in winery software, and we are happy to work with their team and client wineries. Calwineries is continuing to grow and develop, and we would like to thank you, our users and visitors, for your support. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.
Wineries with Mailing Lists on Calwineries
- 13 Appellations
- Arista Winery
- Artesa Winery
- August Briggs Winery
- Baldacci Family Vineyards
- Beaucanon Winery
- Belvedere Winery
- Benessere Vineyards
- Beringer Vineyards
- Bighorn Cellars
- Bonterra Vineyards
- Bourassa Vineyards
- Bravante Vineyards
- Brookdale Vineyards
- Calistoga Cellars
- Chameleon Cellars
- Chanticleer
- Chateau Felice
- Chateau Souverain
- Chateau St Jean
- Chumeia Vineyards
- Cornerstone Cellars
- Cosentino Winery
- DeBurca Winery
- DeLoach Vineyards
- Dolce Winery
- Downing Family Vineyards
- Dutcher Crossing Winery
- Ehlers Estate
- Etude Wines
- Ehrhardt Estates
- Far Niente
- Fetzer Vineyards
- Fort Ross Vineyard & Winery
- Fritz Winery
- Graeser Winery
- Hahn Estates
- Halleck Vineyard
- Heron Wines
- Hourglass
- Humanitas
- Iridesse
- Joseph Phelps Vineyards
- Kapcsándy Family Winery
- Lancaster Estate
- Laurel Glen Winery
- Lobo Loco Wines
- Londer Vineyards
- Luna Vineyards
- Macchia Wines
- Matthiasson Family Vineyards
- Maurice Car’rie Winery
- McDowell Valley Vineyard
- McNab Ridge Winery
- Medlock Ames
- Mettler Family Vineyards
- Mi Sueno
- Mount Palomar Winery
- Moss Creek Winery
- Naughty Cellars
- Nickel & Nickel
- Pacific Star Winery
- Parador Cellars
- Pellegrini Family Vineyards
- Renteria Wines
- Rosati Family Winery
- Roth Winery
- Russian Hill
- Sapid Wines
- Seavey Vineyard
- Seghesio Family Vineyards
- Sequoia Grove
- Smith & Hook
- South Coast Winery
- St Clement
- Stonegate Winery
- Tamayo Family Vineyards
- Taz Vineyards
- Terra Valentine
- Titus Vineyards
- Trefethen Vineyards
- Tricycle Wine Company
- Twisted Oak Winery
- Vare Vineyards
- Vino Con Brio
- VM Vineyards
- Watts Winery
- Whitmore Wine Company
Comments & Reviews
June 27, 2007 | drdebs
Fantastic features. I'm going to play with the site a bit, and probably post a story on it, too. Love connecting folks to wineries, and this is a great way to do it. Good, thoughtful features!
June 27, 2007 | Ryan Fujiu
thanks debs. we appreciate your kind words. we hope that these features make it easier to find and stay in touch with the wine and wineries you like.
June 27, 2007 | drdebs
It was fun--I signed up for a couple of mailing lists, picked favorite wineries, picked some favorite wines. Very cool. I think the mailing list thing was my favorite part, even though the other stuff was also great. It's nice to be able to read about a wine and fill in your email without having to leave the site. Really well done.
June 28, 2007 | Ryan Fujiu
we're glad you enjoyed playing on the site. we are working with a few vendors to provide sales links from the wines, which we feel would add value to the site. also, there will be a wine touring feature coming very soon. if you have any thing you would like to see, please let us know. ryan@calwineries.com
July 2, 2007 | Richard A.
Hi, I am a new member so just getting familiar with the site. Is there any easy way to find just the wineries with mailing lists? Thanks.
July 2, 2007 | Susan Bicais
I love your new features.
Great idea - makes it easy to sign up for lists & clubs.
July 2, 2007 | Ryan Fujiu
Richard, i've listed all of the wineries with the mailing list functionality activated. I hope this helps, let us know if you have anymore questions.
July 2, 2007 | Richard A.
Wow, thats great. Thanks.
July 2, 2007 | Richard A.
One other question...what is the procedure for adding additional wineries to this site? For example, one of my favorites, Sean Thackrey, is not listed here.
July 3, 2007 | Ryan Fujiu
@ Richard: we would need some information about the winery. I just did a basic search for sean thackrey and didn't find much. if you could reach out to them, that would definitely get the ball rolling. we would love to have his winery on our site.
July 3, 2007 | Richard A.
Ryan, what type of info do you need? I know their website (http://www.wine-maker.net) is not too helpful. Their contact info is: Sean Thackrey,
PO Box 58, Bolinas, CA 94924, Phone: 415-868-1781
E-mail: thackrey@earthlink.net
July 5, 2007 | Jessica Diamond
I've had a few Sean Thackrey wines before, they are quite good. I don't get the website though, its kind of weird.
July 5, 2007 | Richard A.
Yes, it is far from a typical winery website. It is more of a history lesson of winemaking. And really tells you little about his wines. I just bought a case today of Pleaides XIV and a bottle of the 2003 Andromeda Pinot Noir.
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