Monday, September 30, 2013

Vino Tech: Second Glass Wine Decider

On the heels of my post about DC Wine Riot, let's explore Second Glass Wine app a bit more.  I thought the app was very helpful to easily track and rate the wines sampled at the event.  However, since the app currently doesn't allow users to track wines consumed elsewhere, the best way to get use out of the app between events is the Wine Decider.

You start with four questions:

  1. Who are you with?
  2. What are you doing?
  3. Price?
  4. Style?
After selecting responses from the provided list, the app recommends a wine to fit the mood with notes describing the taste, tips for purchasing, and (sometimes) a cool story.  

This is what I started with:


And the recommendation:


The good: It's very easy to use. I think I had the most fun playing with different combinations and reading the stories attached.  

The bad: I obviously haven't used the app frequently enough to know, but it appears that there's a one-to-one match for scenario and wine recommendation (that is, saying that you want a red in the $20-35 range to have during a dinner with your parents will always yield a Portuguese port).

The meh: If this app updates, it would be fantastic to have more variety in recommendations.

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