Community

Only VinCellar lets you create and share personal tasting notes with the VinCellar community...and your friends on both Facebook and Twitter.

Create Your Profile

• Upload your photo or image which will be displayed on your profile and any community shared content that you create.
• Add a bio to tell your story.
• Add a blog or website link to your profile where fans can hang on your every word.
• Classify your user status as a blogger, winery designate or a member of the trade.

Interact with the Community

• Search public tasting notes to find information on specific wines.
• Follow your favorite community reviewers by browsing their public profile pages or subscribing to their individual RSS feeds.
• Follow @vintweets for a stream of all VinCellar community tweets on Twitter.

Express Yourself

• Upload your own wine label images.
• Create personal reviews and tasting notes and tell the community what wines you like or dislike.
• Choose from five supported scoring scales (see below) including 100 point, 20 point, 10 point, 5 star and 3 star when creating a wine review.
• Allow users to browse your public tasting notes, cellar and recent VinCellar activity.
• Add the Facebook application, My VinCellar to share what you are buying and drinking with your personal community of friends.
• Update Twitter with wine recommendations, tasting notes and cellar activity.

VinCellar Supports Multiple Scoring Systems

VinCellar allows you to use your preferred scoring scale when entering your tasting notes. You can choose to enter wine scores based on a 100 point, 20 point, 10 point, 5 star or 3 star scale. Scores entered in your preferred scale will be displayed in that manner.

Although VinCellar supports multiple scales, all community scores are calculated and displayed using the 100 point scale. Individual scores (using scoring systems other than the 100 point scale) are normalized to the 100 point scale in order to derive a VinCellar community score. See the conversion chart below for details.

Selecting Your Preferred Scoring Scale

Please note that VinCellar's default scoring system is the 100 point scale. To override this default with your preferred scoring scale:

• Go To My Account
• Select the Preferences tab
• Go to Scoring Preferences
• Click on Edit and select your default scale

Your default will display in all places with your tasting note. This default can be overridden for an individual tasting note at any time.

Scale	Permission Range	Increments
100 pt.	50 - 100	1 pt.
20 pt.	10 - 20	½ pt.
10 pt.	5 - 10	½ pt.
5 stars	0 - 5	½ star
3 stars	0 - 3	½ star

100 pt.	20 pt.	10 pt.	5 star	3 star
50.0	10.0	5.0	0.0	0.0 = 55-58
55.0	11.0	5.5	0.5	0.5 = 58-66
60.0	12.0	6.0	1.0	1.0 = 67-74
65.0	13.0	6.5	1.5	1.5 = 75-81
70.0	14.0	7.0	2.0	2.0 = 82-88
75.0	15.0	7.5	2.5	2.5 = 89-94
80.0	16.0	8.8	3.0	3.0 = 95-100
85.0	17.0	8.5	3.5
90.0	18.0	9.0	4.0
95.0	19.0	9.5	4.5
100.0	20.0	10.0	5.0