There are a lot of wine community sites, I had to make my own?

Alright so there are a bazillion wine community sites out there and many more probably being developed. Here is a brief accounting of the ones I’ve comes across so far:

Corkd.com, OpenWineConsortium.org, OpenBottles.com, WineChatr.com, Vinorati.com, Winelog.net, Snooth.com and the list will go on for a quite a bit longer if i had the patience to hunt them all down.

Now these sites are pretty good however, I have never been sucked into any of them and I am a community guru in my opinion. The reason none of these sites will explode with users is because they are all too focused at any one type of wine drinker or age group, in this already niched group….the wine drinking group. Whether the site is too focused on the millennials (corkd.com needs to remember what happened to Wine X magazine) and distanced from baby boomers, or the sites are catering to only buyers and not the hardcore reviewers these sites will have a short life span.

Thus this last week I have taken my stab at the Wine 2.0 scene and launched WineSocial.com (I have already built a solid consumer and winery community at AmericanWinery.com, but this takes shape as an “Amazon” like community, and my attempt is to build a “Facebook-ish” community based on social interactions.)

With WineSocial.com I will build a community that encompasses many aspects of the industry, from winemakers to vineyard managers, and casual tasters to Robert Parker wannabes, WineSocial.com will become a hub for many types of wine drinkers looking for many different things, give me two years I expect catching some criticism for this endeavor but I feel that the folks attempting to build wine community sites have missed the boat in many areas. Im not going to go much further into it, just signup and have a good time!!!

Sign Up Here: WineSocial.com!

Lloyd