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The Ultimate Guide to The Digital Wine Universe

F&W's Ray Isle offers his hyper-curated list of the best apps, blogs, sites and feeds.

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1 of 24 © Winery Passport

Top Apps: Winery Passport

Interactive maps allow you to search for wineries near your location; your "passport” is a personal log of every winery you've visited.

Good for: Travel tips

Relevant stat: 5,000+ wineries to visit

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2 of 24 © Delectable

Top Apps: Delectable

This triple-purpose app combines community photo sharing of bottles, personal wine ratings and ways to buy the rated wines. 

Good for: Social networking

Relevant stat: 40,000 wines for purchase

3 of 24 © LocalWineEvents.com

Top Apps: Local Wine Events

This app offers constantly updated listings of wine events in every major American city (and many smaller ones). 

Good for: Event listings

Relevant stat: 4,500 events per month

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4 of 24 © CellarTracker! LLC

Top Apps: Cellar Tracker

A cellar-tracking app that's also a massive and often extremely helpful user-generated collection of wine reviews.

Good for: Community reviews

Relevant stat: 5,455,900 wine reviews

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5 of 24 © Approach Guides

Top Apps: Approach Guides for Wine

A substantial collection of regional grape varieties, it's searchable by suggested pairings and wine styles.

Good for: Wine Lessons

Relevant stat: 500+ regions profiled

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6 of 24 © Wine Ring

Top Apps: Wine Ring

A complex algorithm plus a gang of wine experts help predict wines you'll like based on your past choices.

Good for: Wine suggestions

Relevant stat: 5 masters of wine and 5 master sommeliers

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7 of 24 Courtesy of iTunes

Top Apps: Wine-Searcher

The granddaddy of wine-searching apps (and still the best); enter a wine and a zip code, and it locates nearby stores that sell that bottle.

Good for: wine buying

Relevant stat: 54,800 wine stores

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8 of 24 © Wine.com

Best Ways To Shop: Online Buying

Amazon.com
Amid all the books, shoes, digital music and flea collars, Amazon sells wine—a lot of it. Nearly 9,000 different bottles are on the site, shipped to 30 states plus the District of Columbia.

Wine.com
The largest online wine seller in the country shipped nearly 3 million bottles in the US in 2014. As of last year, it also ships for pickup at local FedEx offices, which helps prevent missed deliveries (as, for example, when no one over 21 is present to sign for the package).

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9 of 24 © Drizly

Best Ways To Shop: On-Demand Delivery

Drizly
One of the most comprehensive apps in the rapidly expanding alcohol-delivery world, Drizly coordinates with local stores in 18 cities, bringing wine (or beer and liquor) to your home in less than an hour.

Thirstie
Similar to Drizly, and currently operating in almost the same number of cities, this app also recently added The Craft, a platform offering wine-pairing advice, news, cocktail recipes and more.

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10 of 24 Courtesy of Levi Dalton

Podcast: "I'll Drink To That"

Levi Dalton talks to winemakers, sommeliers and other wine-world denizens. He's currently on episode 298. illdrinktothatpod.com

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11 of 24 © Bertrand Celce

Up-and-Coming Blogs: Not Drinking Poison

"A time capsule wine bar and restaurant like Le Bougainville perfectly embodies the simultaneous joys and frustrations of living in present-day Paris." 
—Aaron Ayscough, notdrinkingpoison.blogspot.com

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12 of 24 © Charles Cotugno

Up-and-Coming Blogs: Wine Folly

"Rosé isn't made with a special grape; rosé is more like a state of mind." —Madeline Puckette, winefolly.com

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13 of 24 © Tyler William Parker

Up-and-Coming Blogs: Wine All The Time

"Boutari Assyrtiko: tart but elegant. It's like that one time Courtney Love went to the Oscars." —Marissa A. Ross, wine-allthetime.com

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14 of 24 © George Rose/Getty Images

Global Blogs: California, U.S.A.

Elaine Chukan Brown's in-depth interviews with top California winemakers (and occasionally others from around the world) are intelligent, incisive and detailed. wakawakawinereviews.com

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15 of 24 © Richard Duval

Global Blogs: Washington, U.S.A.

For his Washington Wine Report, Sean P. Sullivan lets readers participate in virtual tastings, rounds up news about Northwest wine from media outlets everywhere and posts photographer Richard Duval's gorgeous shots of Washington state vineyards. wawinereport.com

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16 of 24 © Tim Graham/Getty Images

Global Blogs: Loire, France


Jim Budd's frequent estate profiles bring the Loire Valley to life. He's also a sharp commentator on the region's wine politics. jimsloire.blogspot.com

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17 of 24 © Bill Nanson

Global Blogs: Burgundy, France

Bill Nanson's free blog and regional guide (with a paid e-newsletter) explain Burgundy basics and profile both villages and producers. He writes frequently and intelligently about one of the world's most complex wine regions. burgundy-report.com

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18 of 24 © Alfanso Cevola

Global Blogs: Italy

Alfonso Cevola's deep knowledge of Italian wine history informs every post he writes. acevola.blogspot.com

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19 of 24 © Jon Arnold Images Ltd / Alamy

Global Blogs: Spain and Portugal

Ryan and Gabriella Opaz focus on Iberian wines plus notable people and places. catavino.net

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20 of 24 © Vinous

Wine Reviews Worth the Annual Fees

Vinous, $120 
Antonio Galloni, formerly of the Wine Advocate, oversees a team of six respected regional critics. vinous.com

Jancis Robinson, $107
Reviews, regional reports and op-eds from the premier English wine writer and her team. jancisrobinson.com

Alice Fiering, $68
For natural-wine fans, Feiring's newsletter is a must-read both for its articulate advocacy and fiery polemics. alicefeiring.com

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21 of 24 © Josep Pituroca

Best Instagram Feeds: @joseppituroca

The tasting life of the wine director of Spain's famed El Celler de Can Roca.

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22 of 24 #BigTableFarm

Best Instagram Feeds: @clarecarver

Great photos from the co-owner of Oregon's Big Table Farm.

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23 of 24 @FreshCutGardenHose

Best Instagram Feeds: @freshcutgardenhose

Clever cartoons illustrate sommeliers' comments on wines they've tasted.

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24 of 24 ©  ShibaSommelier

Best Instagram Feeds: @ShibaSommelier

Pictures of wine bottles with a (very cute) Shiba named Suki alongside.

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