The history
The WineCompass wine judging program is the result of 25 years of continuous development. The very first version of the program, which combines a 3-panel judging system, was born in 2000 under the auspices of the organizers of the VinAgora International Wine Competition and has since gone through several stages of development. During this time, it has made it possible to hold many domestic and foreign wine competitions and has been continuously honed by experience. Today, it has evolved into a complex, modern, easy-to-use program that is already platform independent.
Milestones
Foodapest-VinAgora competition is organized for the first time as a side-program of the first Foodapest trade fair.
1992
1994
VinAgora Wine Competition is the first and ever since the only international wine competition in Hungary.
Our CEO is invited to his very first international wine competition in Brussels, to the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles.
1995
1996
Zoltán (CEO) participates the Portuguese national wine competition where they already use computers for the evaluation. The system is still sluggish: the data has to be saved one by one from each PC.
VinAgora International Wine Competition wins the patronage of OIV and UIOE - two worldwide organization. Even today the competition follows the strict regulation of OIV.
The development of a new evaluation software has begun.
1998
1999
Our company executes the first National Takarék Bank Wine Competition.
The evaluation happens on paper forms, but the administration of the scores is on computers.
Thanks to the cooperation of Zoltan Zilai and Peter Mosoni BírálNet 1.0 - the ancestor of WineCompass - is born. The first wine judging software in the world that collects the scores and other data through LAN.
VinAgora Wine Competition earns the patronage of VINOFED as well.
2000
2002
The judges of National Takarék Bank Wine Competition also use the BírálNet software during the competition.
The more developed BírálNet 2.0 is also used at the oldest wine competition of Europe in Ljubljana.
Thanks to the evolution of the software the judging is easier and faster. The 3-panel-system helps to give a thorough description for each wine.
2004
2006
VinAgora is organized as a separate event for the first time of its history. From now on, the competition is held every year.
This is the year when BírálNet 3.0 is ready to be launched.
VinAgora World Wine-NET (Wiwien), the successor of BírálNet is launched and pushes BírálNet to pension after 10 successful years. It is also possible to enter wines online through iWines.
2011
2016
Developing iWines helped the fact that most of the wines are entered online to the competition - maiking it more environment friendly. Just a very few wines are entered on paper forms.
We are honored to execute the first Russian Wines Competition in Gelendzhik. Our colleagues are preparing the flights and looking after the wines to show their best faces. The competition is considered to be a great success.
2018
2019
We have to follow the flow. The need is growing for a platform free software that has not to be installed on each device, and can be supervised even with remote acccess.
The year when WineCompass is born. The big debute is at VinAgora in April.
WineCompass is crossing borders. This year the Russian Wine Competition uses our software again, but this time we supervise the competition and the operation from 1 500 kilometers away.
2020
2021
A WineCompass bíráló szoftver mára számos borverseny sikeréhez is hozzájárult.