Six apps for winelovers

Decanters, glasses of the right shape and size, a professional corkscrew certainly cannot be missed in the arsenal of a true wine lover, however we should not forget also the smartphone, which is becoming an increasingly precious ally for all those who deal with wine, for passion or for business. Among the many apps around dedicated to wine, we have selected six, from our point of view the most interesting. Let’s start with CellarTracker, certainly the collector of reviews and tasting notes par excellence: three million wines in the archive, more than eight million reviews and a community of about 600,000 enthusiasts and professionals.

A huge database, therefore, which allows you not only to expand your knowledge of wine but also to organize your cellar, keeping track of what you have drunk (at the wine shop and at the restaurant) and what you bought for home consumption. Each archived label can be accompanied by tasting notes and a series of additional information. The result is a sort of personal diary that records the progress of purchases and their consumption habits. The Label Recognition option also allows you to search for information on a wine, shooting a pic to the label, as also happens with scanning the barcode. If CellarTracker escorts us on a detailed survey of the boundless world of wine, on the other hand Tipple is an app with an “educational” vocation. In fact, the aim is to make the basics of tasting accessible to all, accompanying those who love wine, but have no expert training, in the wine tasting process: from tasting to the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary, up to the construction of a description capable of restoring the tasting experience. It is also possible to record all tastings made, by archiving images, notes and tags. 

From amateur tasting to the big names in international criticism with WineRatings + by Wine Spectator, the app of the famous magazine which, with a small monthly subscription, grants access to the tasting notes and scores of its editors, to information on market trends and insights into the socio-cultural trends of the sector. 

Another not-to-miss is the app of the legendary Robert Parker which, always by subscription, allows you to consult all the evaluations and scores of the critic who perhaps most of all, in recent decades, has influenced the fate of the world of wine. But wine is also sociability and for this reason the Wine Events app was born, to keep track in real time of all wine & food initiatives at an international level. The perfect tool to know what is happening in your surroundings but also to discover and insert events dedicated to wine in your travel itineraries. 

Still within food and wine explorations there’s also Raisin, the app that refers to the world of natural wine, mapping organic and biodynamic wineries around the world and also bars and restaurants offering artisanal wines.

– The Editorial Group, August 26th 2020