How do you keep track of your tasting notes?
If you are a buyer for a restaurant/bar/lounge/retail shop how do you keep track of and organize your tasting notes so that you can find wines you tasted 6 months ago? Even wines you tasted a year ago?
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Permalink Reply by Terence on -
I'm not a professional wine buyer but love to keep track of the wines I've tasted over the years.
It's driven me to build a service tailored for exactly this kind of problem. Have a look at Corkscore.com. The great thing is that I'm able to access and organise my tasting notes through the website, mobile website and iPhone App (v2.0 arriving imminently). Also, I can save my notes using SMS or email too when I don't have immediate internet access.
Disclosure: I'm Corkscore's Creative Director
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Permalink Reply by tasteroom on -
We have a comment feature at tasteroom that you could use for this very purpose. You can create a list named "January" for instance and it will list all of the wines that you added to that list while tasting them. Just leave a comment on the wine and choose "private". Now you have a list of wines that you tasted about 6 months ago with your tasting impressions at that time. No app needed.
tasteroom is free and has many other features as well. I just wrote a post about it on these forums a few minutes ago.
Hope this helps you!
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Permalink Reply by Kerstin McKay on -
Hi Daniel,
I'm fairly new to this group so sorry this response is a bit dated. We provide a free iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and Android app called "Wine by the Bar". It allows you to journal your wines, share them with friends, and search for notes you took (like searching for "Peter" if you know you had the wine at Peter's house and you wrote that in your note). Give it a try!
Kerstin
CEO, Wine by the Bar
www.winebythebar.com
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Permalink Reply by Jolan Turkington on -
This reply is a bit delayed, but I find the topic interesting and I'd like to give my (albeit very brief) tip.
I was a wine buyer for a successful DC restaurant for a while, all the while studying for my sommelier certification course. This meant, essentially, being inundated with so many different wines on a daily basis -- not necessarily something to complain about, I know. Though I'm sure apps and online services are fantastic for organizing and keeping track of hundreds, even thousands of wines, what helped me the most in the most simplest sense was adding interesting descriptors to wines. Those that stand out to me, years later, are those with funky adjectives or an odd phrase here and there. The immediate connection to the sensory experience is difficult to establish, but stand-out words not usually associated with wine (as long as they do relate to the wine, and how you sense it) have proven to be extremely helpful.
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