Idea #12: Wine Reference For Your Pocket
I’ve actually wanted this application since 2005. With the rise of the smartphone, this is completely feasible now and I can’t believe it doesn’t exist.
Picture it: you’re perusing a wine list and nothing looks familiar. You’re browsing the aisles of the wine store and only 1/100th of the wines actually have a hang tag. You wish you had a little extra help in deciding. You could go to Google and try to find out more info, but that’s a bit heavyweight. What would be really nice would be a wine app for your phone which matches your search based on only a few characters. The database could be based on a site like Cork’d or some other curated source. Reviews/ratings from major wine critics as well as users on Cork’d would be displayed.
You could sell a subscription to the site or data downloads. The app could be free or made available for a small fee.
I was thinking this would be an iPhone app, but really it could also be a generic mobile app if you could get the live web search to be fast enough / good enough.
Potential revenue sources: advertising, app purchase, subscription
Known Implementations: None (as always, let me know in the comments if you hear of anything)
Related:
You seen this yet:
http://www.hellovino.com/
Nope, thanks! That’s cool, but not really what I’m looking for. I’m looking for the ability to search thousands of wines with a few characters and get reviews, tasting notes, retail pricing, etc. These searches would be based on the store wine aisle or restaurant wine list that I am staring at with no clue.
Delivering Cork’d data would be a great start.
WINEFindr is pretty interesting.
Adam, thanks! That is *definitely* interesting. I can see why they have the focus they have, given their likely goal of selling wine…they have a lot of features going on there. It’s more than I would build for what I am talking about in some sense…but in another, my guess it is probably so broad that the data is lacking where I’d really like to see it shine (speculating). Namely, the ratings and tasting notes. I’d like to see tasting notes from Gary Vaynerchuk (and other well known wine gurus), as well as ratings from different established wine publications.
Thanks for sending this…I will update the post.