Just after one year from the publication of the first issue of DiWineTaste, the edition of October 2002 was out in September, we decided to do a new step forward in our editorial activity and the result is the releasing of a new web site as well as the availability of new services for our readers. The first and most important change is about the magazine; besides continuing to be published in Acrobat® PDF format, the magazine will also be available “online” in order to allow the reading of the reports by using a browser and therefore offering another way for our readers to read the magazine.

 Even back issues are available for “online” reading as well as being available in Acrobat® PDF format, a mean which gives indisputable advantages, in particular for printing, and allows readers to have a copy of the magazine to be read every time and everywhere they wish and in a way no computer would allow. The Acrobat® PDF format is a mean we believe into and we will continue to believe in it, it will not be abandoned, however the availability of an “online” publication offers new possibilities and, we wish so, it will be useful for our readers as they will be able to choose the way and the format which suits their needs and habits best.

DiWinetaste's new web site

 In order to allow a better usability of the new site and of reports of every DiWineTaste's edition, in the home page is available a tool which allow to search for one or more specific terms in every document and in every page of the site. Searching for a subject or a specific page can also be accomplished by using the site's index page which displays a complete list, in alphabetical order, of every page available. Like we said, in the back issues page are available all DiWineTaste's issues, both for online reading and in Acrobat® PDF format, besides that, back issues are also available in a single HTML file in order to allow the magazine to be printed from the browser. No matter this latter possibility allows the printing of the whole magazine, we suggest our readers to download the Acrobat® PDF format which is certainly more appropriate for printing.

 Changes are not just that. We also added a special section dedicated to the service of wine and to its main aspects. The purpose of this section it to provide a quick “handbook” with suggestions and essential information about the service of wine. In this section are currently available specific information about serving temperature, wine glasses as well as an essential list of accessories used for service. At the end of every page of any specific subject are shown some links to other pages useful to anyone who wants to know more and get more information about the subject. We also thought about the “fun” side of wine. Anyone who wishes to test his or her knowledge about the world of wine, hopefully discovering new things in the perfect spirit of the “game”, will find useful using EnoQuiz, a quiz about general and international wine culture. EnoQuiz will show a quiz, every time different, made of ten questions of three difficulty levels: four easy questions, scoring one point each, three average questions, scoring two points each, and three difficult questions, scoring three points each. The result is determined by the score of every question and after having answered every one of them, will be shown the right and wrong answers.

 Based on the idea behind the “Wines of the Month” column, in the site is available a new service, “Wine of the Day”, which suggests a new wine every day, selected by our editor, chosen among the wines recently evaluated by our tasting committee. A way to let our readers know about the latest wines included in the guide as well as the activity done by DiWineTaste, moreover, a way for suggesting a wine every day. Even “DiWineTaste's Wines Guide” has been improved by adding new information and new suggestions about wines. The most relevant change is about wine detail's form. Besides the information already present, label, name of wine and producer, organoleptic comment and enogastronomical match, it has been added a geographical map where the wine's region of origin is shown, an useful element in order to improve the knowledge about wines as well as having a direct and quick information about wine's origin.

 Wine detail's form also offer information on how to serve a specific wine. At the end of the form it is suggested the glass and the temperature at which the wine should be served, as well as the possibility of getting more information about these two important aspects. The enogastronomical tool of the guide has been improved as well by getting more flexible and versatile. Besides entering generic foods, now it is also possible to enter the name of recipes or specific ingredients, such as “spaghetti carbonara” or ”eggplant”. Lastly, we also tried to make our wines guide a more complete and useful tool, a reference guide for our readers which already expressed their high appreciation for this service and, we hope so, they will continue to appreciate more and more.

 We wish this new step will be appreciated by our readers and wine producers, just like all the other things we did in the past. As always we are very glad to receive your comments and your opinions about what we made, in the hope you will help us in offering a better service to you as well as wishing our job to help spreading the right appreciation and culture of wine world. We hope the “surprise” you found at your return from your vacation time will be appreciated and, once again, holding a glass in our hand we certainly look forward to the forthcoming harvest in the hope to fill it with the new results and efforts from every wine producer that, we are certain of that, will be capable of giving us new emotions thanks to their art and mastery. A sincere wish to all wine producers, to the ones who honored us with their trust and preference, and also to the ones who, we hope so, will honor us with their trust. A special wish to our readers as well, even though summer time is almost over, we still have the pleasing thought to know we are having lots of bottles in front of us waiting to be opened and tasted, while reminding, always and anyway, the pleasure of wine is inevitably made of moderation and, last but not the least, by quality. Enjoy browsing DiWineTaste's new web site and enjoy reading the magazine!

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