This app seems aimed at moderately knowledgeable drinkers, those who know what they like, but want to explore and expand their horizons. And when we clicked on a wine, it didn’t offer an actual price for comparison. The pricing was difficult to decipher, as low-cost wines such as Barefoot Bubbly, Korbel, and Cook’s were all listed as two dollar signs (but cost under $10 at BevMo), while Moet & Chandon’s Imperial Brut (closer to $50) had one. “It seems like they haven’t built out all the things they want to do just yet.” The Channels and location-based features didn’t seem to work for us, either. For example, we had to rate a lot of rosés before it stopped recommending cabernet. “It’s a little more labor intensive,” said Bosker. We found it had a lot of trouble with label recognition, meaning we had to type in a lot of our favorite wines to get it to start to build a profile for us. As a result, it doesn’t show you other people’s ratings. It wants to serve you up wines you like, the masses and pros be damned. It seems Wine Ring’s goal is different from Delectable’s or Vivino’s. “You’re not finding the hidden gems,” she cautioned. That can be helpful, but might not in the same way an expert is, said Bosker. When you look at the similar wines, it gives you similar wines in similar price ranges. If there’s no sommelier to talk to or you’re just picking up wine from the grocery store, Vivino lets you scan several wines at once and give their comparative rankings, and does the same for wine lists. “I think it combines all the best information without being overwhelming.” “It’s a very clear and pleasant user interface,” she said. This app was her choice for newer wine drinkers. You can also find food pairing suggestions the wine’s ranking within the winery, region, country, and world and price comparisons for different vintages. I really like the fact that it gives you not just tasting notes and ratings but also how it stacks up against other wines, where you can buy it, the winemakers’ notes, the grapes that were used.” “Next time you’re out and about, you can bring that up and show someone, this is what I had recently and what I liked, and that’s a starting point for a very productive conversation about wine.” They’re helpful for keeping a library of wines you’ve tried or want to try all in one place, she said.īosker said Vivino is “impressively encyclopedic in terms of what it tells you about the wine.
“These apps can be very helpful in giving you information very, very quickly, and logging it for the future,” she said. One way to do that is with the plethora of apps that help neophytes and oenophiles sort the plonk from the premier cru.
“The best way to become a thoughtful wine drinker is just to know what you like and what you don’t like, and that begins with knowing something about what grapes the wine was made from and where that came from,” she told Digital Trends. She quit her job and worked her way up from the bottom of the barrel over the course of 18 months, and chronicled her way through the wine world in her recent book, Cork Dork. Fitbit Versa 3īianca Bosker/Facebook Bianca Bosker was the technology editor of The Huffington Post when she became obsessed with the World’s Best Sommelier Competition and decided to become a wine expert herself.
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