Adegga.com buys Corkd.com

Update: Yes, it was April fools! Thanks everyone for the support! For more information about what happened read the post Adegga.com loves Corkd.com (but didn’t buy it).

For a long time people have been telling us that Adegga is a great community but it lacks the looks. We thought hard about creating a new design but decided for a much more interesting option.

We can now happily announce that we’ve reached an agreement to buy online wine community Corkd.com!

 corkd

What will change?
Changes on Adegga and Corkd will happen in the next couple of weeks:

  • Corkd design will slowly replace Adegga’s design.
  • The name will remain Adegga.com (who names a wine site Corkd anyway?)
  • Corkd blog will be merged with Adegga blog and we hope that together they’ll be more often updated.
  • All wines on Corkd database will be moved to Adegga’s in order to improve quality and eliminate duplicates.
  • All wines on Corkd database will also automatically get an AVIN, our unique code for wines.
  • All wines on Corkd will finally show all the wine blogs that are talking about them.
  • All wineries on Corkd will automatically get a Profile and a Premium Account.
  • The Corkd community will finally be able to browse wines in French, Portuguese and Spanish.

As part of the agreement Gary Vaynerchuck, previous owner of corkd and host of the Web show Wine Library TV will come to Portugal in October to attend the next European Wine Blogger Conference.

While here he’ll be signing a couple of Portuguese wine bottles with his now trademarked tweet: Not enough people are understanding that Portuguese wines are like twitter circa 2006.

April 1, 2009 | Tags: , , ,  

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15 Responses to “Adegga.com buys Corkd.com”

  1. ana on April 1st, 2009

    andré, i was going to congratulate you, but… hum… april first… is this a joke? :|

  2. Henriette Weber on April 1st, 2009

    WOW - that was one thing I didn’t see coming - Im sure you wil run it wisely. knowing your winetaste, you having taught me everything I know about wines (very limited) and you guys passion for wine, I think it’s a great move. Congrats ! champagne anybody ? =)

  3. Henriette Weber on April 1st, 2009

    oh btw - I really hope this isn’t an april fools. it could be. I hope it’s not =)

  4. João Cintra on April 1st, 2009

    Ya ya…
    Se hoje fosse outro dia qualquer… :)

  5. João Bordalo on April 1st, 2009

    Happy April fools day ;)

  6. April fools on April 1st, 2009

    [...] Addega to buy Corkd [...]

  7. Pedro Custódio on April 1st, 2009

    What an excellent news! :)
    I saw it coming for a long long time, and I guess that everyone that’s using both services will definitely come out winning! :)

    Congratulations on the big move ;)

  8. Moses on April 1st, 2009

    Nice April Fools Joke guys : )

  9. Hugo Fernandes on April 1st, 2009

    Hmmmm…. “April 1, 2009″ anyone? Hope it’s true ;) And I’m sorry if I just ruined the party…

  10. gotsky on April 1st, 2009

    félicitations!
    En voilà une bonne nouvelle.
    Je pense que c’est l’occasion d’ouvrir quelques bonnes bouteilles!

  11. Tiago Franco on April 1st, 2009

    Congrats!

  12. Catarino™ on April 1st, 2009

    :)

  13. Armando Alves on April 1st, 2009

    And i thought it was the other way around … masn, the US dollar is really in trouble :)
    I wonder how the future company will manage 2 brilliant minds.

  14. Jorge on April 1st, 2009

    Almost got me!!
    ;-)))))

  15. Daniel Barradas on April 1st, 2009

    You will make us all very happy the day you achieve this! :)

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