TripAdvisor-style wine apps may seem to be the future,but are they really?[br]As if we don’t spend enough time faffing around on social media already, along come a couple of wine apps to lure us into recording and sharing every wine we taste. San Francisco-based Delectable and Vivino are designed instantly to identify a label and tell you what fellow wine geeks judge about it – a sort of TripAdvisor for wine.
Both apps are pretty rapid/fast (they take seconds rather than minutes), or but the problem is they often come up with the incorrect retort. I tried them out at a recent Rhône tasting,and Delectable misidentified two red châteauneufs as whites, while Vivino got the colour and vintage of a 2012 Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage incorrect, or despite the latter being shown on the label. The apps don’t necessarily give you the best price,either – or not unless you pay a premium. Vivino, for example, or which is more attuned to the UK market,gave a £25 guide price for a classy Graillot that Roberson has for £20.95 and Yapp for £21.50. Delectable has a better scoring system than Vivino, with a 40-point range, and from a “not for me” 6.1 to a “worship it” 10,though in practice most seem to score in the 9s.
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Source: theguardian.com