Comments on: Tracking your favorite wines

By: David @ Vinfolio

David @ Vinfolio — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:41:34 +0000

Vinfolio has just launched a new iPhone app. called Wine Prices. http://www.vinfolio.com/press-.....iPhone.jsp It provides the ability to search over 400,000 wine auction price results on over 10,000 individual wines and over 1 million US wine retail prices on nearly 200,000 unique wines. It’s a great tool for Wine buyers and sellers who need a comprehensive source for wine pricing data at their fingertips. It’s also a benefit to everyday wine drinkers who can access it when they are making wine purchase decisions at a restaurant or retail wine shop.

The app is available for Free at the Apple iPhone App store.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:58:25 +0000

I went through this a few months ago and ended up choosing Cellartracker (free) and its accompanying iPhone app, Cor.kz (£2.99). I like the fact I can do all the detailed stuff I like on the website and the iPhone app is simple to use when you want to see what you have at home (e.g. when in a bottle shop or supermarket), when you drink a bottle, or when you drink some wine you like but don't yet have.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:25:52 +0000

We tried to get into this, but we got too frustrated with it because we live in a liquor-controlled state and we couldn’t get our hands on anything the magazines recommended. It was so irritating! Now we mostly enjoy wines while on vacation, particularly when we go to Napa.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:59:19 +0000

I'm a "wine consumer" on about the same level as you (and some others in these comments). My palate is probably not as sophisticated as a lot of people's since I can't always tell the difference between wines. It just tastes like wine, you know? I haven't investigated the cellartracker.com or corkd.com websites, but I thought I should mention snooth.com, which seems to serve the same purpose. Though I'm a pretty big fan of low-tech solutions in general.

By: Winston Baccus

Winston Baccus — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:38:54 +0000

Another plug here for cellartracker.com

I use it to keep up with the wines I have in my personal (albeit modest) cellar. And I used the Cork’d iPhone app to mark one of the bottles as consumed.

I review all the wines that I drink on CellarTracker and use the iPhone app CSV Touch to pull down a searchable list of my wine tasting notes and my wine wishlists using the .csv support from cellartracker.

The site is by no means elegant, but it is HIGHLY functional.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:54:05 +0000

Another good online (also pc or iphone) application is Evernote. You can take a picture and save it to Evernote. Evernote allows you to search by text that appears in the picture. You can create a notebook and tag your items.

By: AJ Lee

AJ Lee — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:11:58 +0000

Actually, the WSJ wine writers are fans of the much neater & easier process of placing wine bottles in a warm oven. “Baking” them allows the labels to come off very easily & avoids the sogginess & subsequent wrinkling.

By: Marina Martin

Marina Martin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:59:05 +0000

Are you seriously sketching pictures of the wine label? Unless you really like to draw, take a digital photo and throw them up on Flickr (then others can see your favorite wines, too!).

By: Andre Ribeirinho

Andre Ribeirinho — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:21:35 +0000

@Erin: Your first and second paragraphs perfectly describe the typical wine geek

I’m the founder of social wine discovery community Adegga that lets people track their favourite wines and share them with friends. I welcome you to visit us!

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:00:26 +0000

I use Everynote for keeping track of a lot of things, including my wine. I am like you – a huge foodie and have grown up with having a glass of wine for dinner every night.

I keep a notebook on evernote for wine. I take a photo on my iphone of the label, add it to evernote and write my notes there. Everything is searchable, even the text on the labels. I use my own tagging to mark the type of food I paired it with and what my impressions were.

When I’m in the store, I can open the program and see my notes and the label photo I took. I can search the notebook for whatever I’m having for dinner, the type of wine, etc. It isn’t a straight forward system, and its a bit non structured, but it works within a system I already use and does everything I want.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:34:27 +0000

Take a photo of labels of wine you like and keep it on your iPhone to use when you are shopping again. On iPhoto you can make notes about your wine. Sure easier than steaming off labels.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:40:47 +0000

@Erin – LOL! I’ve been to tasting rooms that could use some livening up with pom-poms. “Give me a ‘W’! Give me an ‘I’!…”

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:30:16 +0000

@Sean — I agree with you about owning up, but I sincerely think that all of the wine world is funny. “Wine enthusiast” … what the heck does that even mean? It sounds like I put on a cheerleading uniform and wave pom-poms in a parade. Yay! Wine!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:14:13 +0000

This is off topic, but I think it’s interesting that you used the first two paragraphs defending your interest wine, while at the same time disparaging yourself for it and inviting people to laugh at you. This is a general trend I’ve noticed myself and it has me wondering, why have some many of us become such insecure cultural apologists? Are we so afraid to be cast as snobs? Whether you enjoy wine or wine coolers, enjoy and be proud of it.

By: kenneth

kenneth — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:25:46 +0000

you should really try cellartracker.com (free or by donation)… it’s the best site out there and has the best community notes and features.
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