Searching for wines — at a price you want, with expert opinion to back up your choice — just got easier, with Wine News Review’s new, user-friendly Smarter Wine Search tool.

For starters, this tool is designed to only index top wine websites, rather than the entire Web.

That makes a big difference.

It’s been said that the best thing about the Web is the huge amount of information it stores, and the worst thing about the Web is the huge amount of information it stores.

In other words, sometimes more is actually less.

That’s especially true when it comes to tracking down worthwhile information about wines. (To see what I mean, type “wine” into Google and you’ll find there are nearly 19 million citations.)

The idea is that by limiting a search to the most authoritative sources — the ones that have a track record of accuracy instead of hype — the search results are more reliable. Also, the time spent to find what you’re looking for is shorter because there’s lots less clutter.

Defining your search is a snap, with separate drop-down menus to (1) chose a wine type, (2) pick a price range and (3) set the time frame for when the review was published to gauge its freshness. No need to fiddle with confusing search terms.

A custom version of Google, I think you’ll find this tool to be fast and solid. The sources that are indexed include more than 150 of the Web’s leading wine experts, most trusted wine bloggers and major news publications from around the world.

The Smarter Wine Search tool is the latest part of a redesign of Wine News Review over the past two weeks.

Another addition is a cool Flash photo slide show on the upper right of the page. It includes several of the photos that have been selected as Wine Photo of the Day. You can get to the full photo gallery by clicking on the link above the slide slow.

You might also notice that there are now a couple drop-down menus at the bottom of the title banner that provide links to the latest news reports about wine bargains, both white and red. These reports are continuously updated.

Like everything else in cyberspace, of course, this is all a work in progress. Suggestions and even complaints are welcomed.