CellarPass Launches OpenTable Integration

CellarPass, the leading destination to explore, book and share wine country experiences, continues to expand on its website's core features by now allowing visitors to search more than 100 restaurants and make instand reservations by way of their integration with OpenTable.com. This is above and beyond CellarPass' own reservation system that allows wineries to promote upcoming tours, tastings and special events.

To provide a preview of the new capability, CellarPass has launched their new "Eat" section of their website. By June 2011, CellarPass plans to expand this to over 300 leading restaurants covering Napa, Sonoma, New York and beyond.

Are you visiting wine country? Did you know you can book reservations for restaurants and popular wineries and tasting rooms? Check out CellarPass.com for what we call are "undiscovered gems" of the wine country. And in just a few short clicks, you too can be joining us at the tasting bar, barrel, vineyard and more!

To learn more, visit the CellarPass website at http://www.cellarpass.com/
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CellarPass Launches Concierge Interface for the Wine Industry

  

CellarPass Provides hospitality
professionals  the opportunity
to make reservations

with popular wineries online



CellarPass, the leading destination to explore, book and share wine country experiences launched the first-ever reservation management interface designed specifically for concierges and hopsitality professionals in the wine industry. Free to hospitality and guest services professionals, the system allows reservations with popular wineries to be placed 24/7 with instant confirmations. Concierge Account

Imagine receiving instant reservation confirmations 24/7. CellarPass is a revolutionary reservation service for the wine industry where consumers and wineries converge to discover, book, sip and share their wine tasting experiences online. Not only is CellarPass the fastest growing website where consumers can book reservations 24/7, the CellarPass Concierge System is designed to help strengthen the relationship between the winery and the hospitalityy professional- not replace it.

Our research shows that hospitality professionals have been demanding such a service for years, but before CellarPass wineries were left to use forms or rely on hospitality professionals to call to make a reservation. No doubt since the advent of OpenTable has the hospitality industry shown that when an online, real-time reservation service is available they will use it.

Since our launch in early 2010, our reservation data continues to confirm our research by showing 30-40% of the winery reservations managed by CellarPass are done via the winery's website between the hours of 7pm - 10pm- long after employees have left for the day leaving you waiting for call backs. Not only does CellarPass manage and accept reservations 24/7, it also manages availability in real-time while providing a unique confirmation code each time.

If you are currently using a printed binder, log book or calendaring system such as Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar to store guest's reservation and contact information (and are including their credit card), there's a good chance that you are not PCI compliant. By managing your reservations in CellarPass, you are not only protecting the personal information of your guests from potential identity theft, you also become PCI compliant which is a required by all major credit card companies effective October 2010.

Beyond reservation management, CellarPass provides a host of tools and features that extend your reach, increasing your opportunity to be recognized by wineries for your referrals. Your account even allows you to bookmark your favorite tasting spots, keep track of your guest's contact information and more.
In less than just a few clicks, you can:
    - Book and manage winery reservations 24/7
    - Provide instant confirmations to your clients
    - Bookmark favorite wineries
    - Receive recognition for your referrals

With wineries being added almost weekly nationwide, CellarPass has become the leader in winery reservations. Would you like to recommend a winery to be added to CellarPass? Let us know. Create Account.

CellarPass Set to Expand Finger Lakes Wine Country Coverage

CellarPass, the leading destination to explore, book and share wine country experiences, continues to expand on its current coverage of the Finger Lakes Wine Country region by adding more wineries to the number that are already accept reservations through their service. Glenora Wine Cellars, a popular winery to visit in the region is already accepting reservations for June's tours, tastings and events.

"We're very pleased with the number of wineries signed up to date and many are showing very good results early on", says Sarah Elliman, VP of Sales and Marketing for CellarPass. "Three Brothers came on board in September and continues to track over 1000 consumers through our service every month, which is very good considering that CellarPass is completely new to East Coast consumers. This will continue to grow the rest of the year as tourism kicks up in the area and more wineries sign up in the coming months."

Have you ever visit the Finger Lakes wine region? The region provides one of the most affordable places visit while providing amazing views as backdrops for the best wines produced in the United States. Do you want to visit, but don't know where to begin? In just a few short clicks, you too can be joining us at the tasting bar, barrel, vineyard and more! Check out www.cellarpass.com/finger-lakes.aspx