How Wine-Searcher Works

To the uninitiated, Wine-Searcher's wine, beer and spirits offers from merchants can be daunting. Below, we'll share a few tips and tricks to get the most out of the site, and find that perfect wine you've been looking for – at the perfect price.

How to Search for a Wine:

Type in the name of your wine and hit search, or begin typing and select it from the options given to you in the drop-down list.

You will go to a page that will give you a list of offers for that particular wine. From there, you will be able to select a specific vintage (if you haven't done so already), find out what grape varieties and regions are associated with your wine, and see its overall critic and user ratings. Most importantly, you can make your way to a merchant's website to buy the wine.

From this page, you will be able to adjust your currency and location, find the nearest store stocking the wine, and choose to exclude (or only see) auctions. You can also access the Market Data and Tasting Notes tabs to find out the wine's demand, availability and price histories, and a lot of other helpful information.

How to Search for a Group of Wines:

Type in your keywords (say, 'Trefethen Vineyards' or 'Auslese') and check the 'Closest Matches' tab before hitting 'search'. You will get a list of all of the products we have that contain those keywords.

From these search pages, you will be able to see the?average price?of the wine, its?average score?across critics and its?search rank, as well as information about grape varieties and regions.

Tools to Help You Choose a Wine:
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For an alternative way to search for wine, our new Discover?tool can be found on the Wine-Searcher home page. Discover offers recommendations based on the parameters you set. So, depending on your budget, what's for dinner, or whether you want sweet or sparkling, Discover will find you the critics' choice to match your mood.	TheTop Ten Best Value?wines will show you what wines have rated best at various price points – $10, $20, $40 and $80. These are updated monthly.

Tips for Searching:

Narrow Down Your Results

Include the country or region of origin to narrow down your results – compare?Tribute?to?Tribute USA.

Find the Right Price

Search results are ordered by price, from cheapest to most expensive. This tends to put half bottles before full bottles, which are before cases.

Choose A Good Year

You can search for a specific vintage of a wine, or if you exclude vintage from your search, you will be given results for all vintages.

Learn More About Wine:

Wine-Searcher will help you do so much more than just search for a wine. From soil types in Burgundy to where to store your wines in Singapore, we offer a wealth of information to wine lovers, collectors and investors.

We have an exhaustive and in-depth encyclopedia of the world's?wine regions, appellations,?grape varieties?and notable producers – all complete with a list of associated wines.
If you are an investor or collector, or would like to be, take a look at our?Advice for Wine Collectors?section, where you can read about what makes a collectable wine and some of the most famous examples, as well as more practical information like sales taxes and wine storage providers around the world.
Figure out the labelling conventions for some of the world's most important wine-producing regions on our?wine labels pages, so you'll always know exactly what your bottle of wine is trying to tell you.
Take a look at a wine's price, demand and search rank history, and compare it to the average of other wines made in that style.
If you already know it all, take a crack at our?Wine Quiz?so you can really test your mettle.

Make Like a Professional:

With PRO, not only will you have access to all of the offers on Wine-Searcher, you'll be given a range of other helpful tools to help you find the perfect wine. You can:

See results across all stores
Search only your favorite merchants and exclude others
See results in two currencies and set minimum and maximum prices
Calculate the value of your cellar
See five years of price, availability and demand history
Write your own reviews and ratings and save them across multiple devices
Get notified via email when your favorite wine becomes available at a particular price

A subscription to PRO is just NZ$99.00 a year, and many make that back in savings on their first purchase.

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