Take a look, kick the tyres – let me know what’s not working. A couple of cosmetic ‘enhancements’ will come on-stream before I do an official ‘launch mailing’ late next week.

Hopefully it will work with more than 1 person at once (I don’t know…) trying to get at stuff. Effectively in one page you can access most of the Burgundy-Report, domaine websites, domaine profiles, appellation profiles and of-course the wine tasting notes. That’s the plan anyway!

Email me at the address at the foot of this page if you can’t make it work, it doesn’t work or you don’t like how it works etc. and I’ll see what I can do

https://www.burgundy-report.com/finder.aspx

Cheers, Bill

I’m very happy with what I have sofar – my developer has done a great interpretation job.

Unfortunately I have an even bigger ‘content’ job ahead of me.

The NoteFinder links to lots of other potentially useful things such as appellation factsheets, producer websites and profiles within Burgundy-Report – and that’s not all!

This all means (of-course) that I have no time left to eat or drink!
Cheers

It all seemed to be going so well – site was migrated, note-finder database coming along ‘swimmingly’ – all was well.

Then last week my ‘hosters’ had some harddisk malfunctions and the site was gone for almost 2 days – then bits were missing and the stats still don’t work. Not really a fine start…

Anyway, I expect a bit of ‘beta testing’ for some poor unsuspecting ‘friends’ at the end on next week and going live at the end of the month. Gotta have a target!

Cheers, Bill

This update page is now just-about up-to-scratch. Forward to the database for tasting notes (and more!) which is already running on a test-server – scary!
Cheers, Bill

I’m sat in a lounge at the airport, and if you’re reading this, then the server-switch was a success – everything seems okay.

Perhaps not a very challenging phase 1 then! Phase two is the database development, phase 3 is the implementation. I’ll get a few friends to roadtest (crash?) phase 3 as soon as it’s up and running – I’m thinking May…

Now just 12 hours on a plane to Zürich to get through; it was Harry Potter and the goblet of fire on the way out, I wonder what civilisation advancing entertainment I’ll get on the return. 😉
Cheers

The page on Burgundy’s grape varieties is finally up here – it was a busy week, so quite slow progress.

Had a meeting with the developers for my tasting-note finder – sounds easy – I just need a new web-host, to develop something in .NET and update it with microsoft access. All very easy apparently…

Now I go to China for 9 days hoping that nothing breaks down in the meantime!
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Finally got the feed links sorted out (I think!) – they weren’t working before as they should. It’s possible to see the updates via ‘feedburner’ or by-far the easiest route – but only if you use Firefox – is by clicking the feed icon which appears on the browser’s address-line (when you view the Burgundy-Report homepage. This adds a link to the bookmarks that shows if the site has been updated – very elegant and easy.

Must get back to writing about Burgundy’s 8 allowed grape varieties!
Cheers

New page that segments by region the areas that together are called burgundy. Also updated (mainly style-wise) are the following:
– Wine Making
– A-Z of Appellations
– The Map Resource
– Weights & Measures
– Profiled Producers
That’s enough for today!
Cheers