Phone Apps for Wine?

WINE TALK
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Sorry if this subject has been covered before. I searched but did not find an earlier thread.

Not long ago, and though I have dragged my feet mightily for a long time, I was finally introduced to the iPhone. After quickly mastering how to make a phone call, I started playing with it. I came across and installed an app from Vivino that allows you to take a picture of the wine label and it will then link to information about that particular wine on the Vivino site - price, reviews, etc. I can see myself using this app while I am browsing the wines in Costco or really any other physical wine store to fuel and justify my impulse wine purchases.

Are there other wine-related apps that you find useful?

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CT and delectable

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cellar tracker is the most important. you can also use the label to search with CT, it actually searches through vivino’s database.

wine-searcher is also a very useful app

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These are the only two I have, but I use them often

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+1, like, or general agreement…not sure where the forum landed on proper terminology [cheers.gif]

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Do yourself a favor, press and hold on the vivino icon and click the X to uninstall it. Then go to the app store and download CellarTracker.

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I only use Cellartracker. Great for cellar management; looking up a wine while at a restaurant (remember those?); or in a store. CT links to winesearcher, so I use that whether than have the app itself – but depending on what you want the app for you should look at winesearcher as well. I dont find Vivino as reliable as CT.

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While I agree that the user reviews on CT are far more useful than Vivino, I think Vivino has its place.
Often I am considering a wine that has no or very few reviews on CT but has many on Vivino.
I find in general if a wine was a Vivino rating of 4.0 or higher then I am more willing to give it a try.
However some the reviews are just garbage.

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Most Used

  • Cellar Tracker (make sure to connect Burghound or other reviewers for best use)


  • Wine Searcher (pro version)

Also Use

  • Auction Apps (HDH, Acker, WineBid once in a while)


  • ClimaVinea - best app for maps of Burgundy
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Review coverage on vivino is of course better than CT, but what is the value if the reviewers are for the most part uninformed?

To give a sense of the absurdity of vivino, crap like Belle Glos (4.5) is rated higher than Ducru-Beaucaillou (4.4).