The wine search and review site Snooth has just raised $1M in financing as reported on Mashable. This is in addition to $300,000 of seed funding that was raised last year.
Of all the Wine 2.0 sites I’ve seen to date, I think Snooth shows the most promise to make a business out of this category. The design and feature set are very well done and the wine database is impressive. The only thing that remains to be seen is if they can attract enough users to make the social networking and ecommerce elements of Snooth viable. My guess is yes, but we shall see in coming months. My full review of Snooth will be posted here soon.
Congratulations, Philip and team on this milestone!
How do you think it compares with cellartracker.com? I wandered around Snooth awhile back and it looked basically empty, although they claim to have lots of TNs and users I could hardly find any.
Very nice visuals though.
Hi Doug,
I think Snooth and CellarTracker are Apples and Pears as the main aim of each site is different. Snooth uses posted reviews as metadata for selling wine somewhat like WineZap and Wine-Searcher. If you look closely, you will see many notes from CT also on Snooth. CT is more of a cellar management tool and less about finding and buying wine than keeping an inventory.