Online Wine Dreams, Other Wine Realities
October 19, 2007
My life would extra-special if the interface from Cork’d would be overlaid on the incredible amount of data at Cellar Tracker. My god, Cellar Tracker is an ugly brute. I think it may have been designed by someone who is brilliant but blind. Cork’d I first saw a year or two ago and it doesn’t seem to be taking off as much as I’d like to see it do, but it sure has that cheeky Web 2.0 glow.
Other wine stuff this week:
- Visited colleagues David and Kathleen out in Lyle, Wash. to evaluate their lovely site for vineyard potential. Peaceful east-gorge slope with White oak and basalt. Photo above.
- Visited some other wineries near there (Klickitat Canyon, Cor Cellars and Syncline). Bought some lovely wine from Syncline, including the 2004 Cuvee Elena (a classy Rhone blend).
I have hacked WordPress to use higher-quality compression for thumbnails. Let’s see how that goes.
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I’m about to post a topic just on this subject, it was funny to see someone else with the same thoughts. I’m sure a lot of people feel this way, but I just thought it was funny while I was Googling a screenshot of CellarTracker, I found this blog. I had to finally decide where I wanted to digitize my wine history. For about one day, I decided to use Cork’d and CellarTracker at the same time to see which one felt better, more natural, more inspiring. Cork’d is a big frustrating mess, albeit a pretty mess and a social, friendly mess. But with no updates since Gary V bought it out, I have less and less hope for it. CellarTracker is a wonderful robust engine that will do anything I can imagine. It even has a better mobile version!! But good GOD is it ugly. Would it really be that hard to make it prettier, apply some readable font sizes, colors, and reasonable margins??