alto california june 2005 headquarters palo alto number of employees 6 1 website www.bottlenotes.com bottlenotes is a wine community site founded in june 2005 in palo alto california by kim donaldson and alyssa rapp . the original business plan was completed by rapp with the help of classmates from the stanford graduate school of business between 2003 & 2005 . the site was developed as an e commerce site that matched users taste preferences with wine options and was featured in numerous publications including wine enthusiast magazine . it has now become a media platform with both marketing and social media capabilities . 2 the company s use of social media and user feedback has been featured in the entrepreneur magazine blog success magazine and fox news . 3 4 5 6 7 bottlenotes hosts wine tastings in cities across the u.s. called around the world in 80 sips that have been featured in the new york times dining calendar 8 produces the daily sip a daily e newsletter with over 150 000 subscribers edited by karen macneil author of the the wine bible 9 10 and has created an iphone app that allows users to rate remember and record notes on wines they ve tried and share that information with other users . the app was an official honoree of the 2011 webby awards . 3 11 references edit bottlenotes team page http www.inc.com 30under30 2008 profile 24 rapp.html a b https itunes.apple.com us app bottlenotes id388382020 mt 8 poll vaulting . entrepreneur magazine blog . july 1 2007 . retrieved june 13 2012 . the power of community . success magazine . october 2010 . retrieved june 13 2012 . wine tastings good investments for vineyards . fox news . november 4 2011 . retrieved june 13 2012 . innovation in the wine industry . fox news . september 6 2011 . retrieved june 13 2012 . wine events galore . new york times . january 17 2012 . retrieved june 13 2012 . bottlenotes.com serves up daily dose of wine with the daily sip . reuters . march 23 2009 . retrieved september 16 2010 . what women drink . the daily beast . august 22 2011 . retrieved june 13 2012 . 15th annual webby awards . the webby awards . april 2011 . retrieved june 13 2012 . external links edit official website success magazine s success stories alyssa rapp of bottlenotes.com experience.com alyssa rapp helps you choose the best bottle retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bottlenotes & oldid 651831829 categories wine websiteshidden categories articles with inconsistent citation formatsuse mdy dates from june 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 march 2015 at 20 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view