Timely Updates
posted by mark in Website Updates, Snooth
We’re constantly on the look-out for new ways to work with the Snooth database. One of my favorite types of update can be applied to every wine, changing the way we display it or giving you more detailed information given what we know about it. This week I’m excited to announce one such update. On the detail page of a wine, for example the Pouilly-Fuissé Labouré-Roi 2006, you can now see a suggested drinking window. A lot of folks write to us and ask questions about when to drink a specific wine they either have or want to buy. What worried us were all of the people who had the same question but who didn’t write to ask! We still wanted to help, and now we can.
Another great update for this week attaches some new functionality to the Social page. When you’re logged in, we’ll now present you with a list of groups you might find interesting. Here you can see I’ve reviewed a number of wines from Trefethen Family Vineyards (after a Snooth visit to the winery). Also I seem to have reviewed a good number of wines from Napa but I haven’t followed that group yet. That’s an oversight I’ve now corrected!
This is pretty cool :)
I am curious what are the mechanics behind the suggested drinking dates?
I don’t mean the algorithm itself, but what factors do you include?
Brute force…
Basically, Greg wrote a multi thousand line excel file that broke down each varietal / vintage / region / price combination, so when you go look at ample the Pouilly-Fuissé Labouré-Roi 2006 for example, thats a recommendation for a white Macconais wine in that price range from that specific year.
It took quite a long time to write, and a long time to transfer into code!