April 24, 2025 — Wine-Searcher is excited to announce that its website will now feature wine and spirits reviews from The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal. The free, easy-to-use Wine-Searcher search engine lists approximately 20 million wine, beer, and spirit products and averages 5.2 million monthly active users. Consumers make 240 million active searches each year.
For the retail trade, Wine-Searcher’s expansive and widely trusted platform gives businesses an instant online presence; contact details, services, and price lists are updated daily and without any IT requirement by the store. Data servicesfor winegrowers and brand owners, meanwhile, include retail demand reporting on what consumers search for as well as what stores sell by wine color, region of production, grape variety, and price category. Wine-Searcher data lets producers measure a wine’s international reach, anticipate market opportunities, follow the results of promotions to improve the distribution of wines, grow market share, and open up new markets.
“We’re excited to collaborate with The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal. Their expertise brings real depth to Wine-Searcher, giving our users richer stories and reviews while their readers get easier access to where to find and buy the wines they love,” says Jules Perry, CEO of Wine-Searcher.
The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal are the most widely circulated national print publications for a 100% trade audience in the wine and spirits industry. Published six times per year, each publication reaches a targeted readership of wine directors, sommeliers, restaurateurs, food and beverage managers, spirits buyers, retail shops, distributors, importers, and other hospitality professionals.
The Tasting Panel, which published its first issue in 2007, is the go-to resource on brand developments, trending topics, and insights from both long-established and up-and-coming professionals for over 60,000 beverage-buying decision-makers.
The SOMM Journal is the premier field guide for premium and luxury wine and spirits, serving as a bimonthly reference for over 55,000 on- and off-premise beverage-buying decision-makers who want to keep their fingers on the pulse of trends while broadening their view of not only notable wine and spirits brands but the movers and shakers impacting our global industry. Delivered in our signature style of edutainment, The SOMM Journal invites wine geeks to take a deep dive into academic-worthy content.
“Since we review hundreds of wines a month for the industry, we want to share that with an audience we otherwise would not reach: the consumer,” says Meridith May, publisher/editor-in-chief of The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal.
