Find the wine you meant to buy again.
Keep the label, vintage and your own verdict together. When you are looking for that bottle weeks later, you have more to go on than a camera roll.
Your rating answers the useful question: did you like it?
Your personal wine journey
Remember what you tasted. Discover what you like.
Your wine journal, so you never forget a wine you loved. Your Cellar, with a drink window on every bottle. Your own map of wine country, keeping every winery you visit. And a Sommelier that has read all of it. No wine expertise needed.
iPhone · Free journal · Optional Pro · Legal drinking age only
You remember liking it: the label, the porch, the second pour. A week later, the name is gone.
Cork & Note fixes that.
What it does
Log the wine. Ask the Sommelier. Keep the places.
IThe journal
Would you have it again?
A bottle at home, dinner out, or a flight at the tasting bar. Capture each wine while the glass is still in your hand: a star rating, flavor notes and how it made you feel. Tag the place, or don’t. A Tuesday-night bottle with no location still counts.
- No wine vocabulary required. Plain words like “honey, but dry?” are exactly the point.
- Go as deep as you like, with optional sliders for sweetness, tannin, acidity and body, and a flavor-note picker that suggests notes for the grape.
- Your Journal groups tastings by month, and you can rank them in a tier list or set up to five side by side.
IIThe places · your passport
What did we try last time?
The wineries remember you back. Every place you have been keeps its own page: your visits, the wines you tasted on each one, your notes and your photos. Your map fills in as you travel, with visited wineries, your Wishlist and wineries near you.
- Search a directory of 14,000+ US wineries by name, on any plan. Your map, pins, visits and Wishlist are never gated.
- Restaurants and tasting bars keep pages too. Anywhere you drink wine counts.
- Pro adds the live Google rating, opening hours and website on winery pages where available, and US wine regions on the map.
IIIAsk Sommelier
A Sommelier that has read your notes.
Every tasting you log teaches it a little more about what you like. Ask what to open tonight, how to describe the glass in your hand, or what to try next. The answers start from your own ratings, visits and Cellar, not a crowd score.
Ask it things like
- What’s the word for that dry, grippy feeling after a sip?
- We’re having lamb tonight. Which bottle in my Cellar fits?
- I keep loving Virginia whites. What should I branch into?
- Tell me about this bottle I tasted last month.
Free includes 5 messages a month, text only. Pro raises that to up to 50 questions a day, with photos, and lets the Sommelier look up a specific wine on the web and show you the pages it used. AI can make mistakes, so check the details that matter to you.
“What should I try next, based on my tastings?”
IVThe Cellar
Loved it at the tasting? Bring the bottle home.
Add the bottle to your Cellar and see it on a shelf, or switch to a list. Every bottle can carry a drink window, so you know when it is ready, and Tonight’s Pick has the Sommelier choose from the bottles ready to drink. Drink windows and Tonight’s Pick are part of Pro. Free keeps up to 25 bottles.
- ReadyOpen it any night.
- Drink soonIn its final stretch.
- Too youngGive it more time.
- Past peakTonight, or never.
VAt a glance
What is in the Cellar, and what is it worth?
One screen for the whole Cellar: how many bottles are ready now, what to drink soon, your oldest bottle and where most of them come from, with a year-by-year view of when to open them.
- Cellar value adds up what you paid and what you think it is worth now, from the prices you enter. It is not a market price.
- Insights and cellar value are part of Pro.
VIOpened
Remember why you brought it home.
When you open a bottle, record what you thought. Opened keeps a book of every bottle you finished: how long it waited, what you paid, your star rating and your own note.
- A bottle added to your Cellar links to a matching tasting in your Journal when there is one.
- Share the book. Opened is part of Pro.
VIIScan
Skip the typing.
Point your camera at a label or a tasting card, or use a photo, and the wine details fill in as it reads. You review and edit everything before it saves, and anything it could not read you can add or skip.
- Free includes 3 scans to try. Pro raises that to up to 30 a day.
- It never invents a field that is not printed.
VIIIThe wine list
Choose from the list in front of you.
Photograph a restaurant wine list, set a budget and get picks with a reason each, grounded in the wines you have rated. Part of Pro.
- The picks come from the list in your photo, not from a catalog.
- Tonight’s Pick does the same for your own Cellar.
IXYour taste
Your taste, written down.
Once you have rated a few wines, the taste report reads your whole journal and tells you what keeps standing out, and what to try next. Your tier list ranks every wine you rated. Both are part of Pro.
- Year in review gives you a free summary to share, and a full month-by-month recap with Pro.
- Badges mark milestones along the way.
XBlind tasting and trips
Make a night of it.
Blind tasting deals 2 to 6 of your bottles with the labels hidden, then reveals who guessed right. Plan a wine day picks two or three stops and gives you drive times and a schedule with room for lunch. Both are part of Pro.
- Taste solo, or as a tasting night with up to 8 people.
- Directions to each stop come with the plan.
Why Cork & Note
More useful every time you come back to it.
Rating apps know the wine but not the trip. Passport apps stamp the visit but forget the wine. Cork & Note keeps the whole story together, and hands it to a Sommelier.
Learn the words as you taste.
Ask the Sommelier about the dry feeling after a sip or the flavor you cannot quite name. It has read your journal, because you wrote it, so its advice starts from what you actually liked.
Keep the suggestions that fit. Your rating is still yours.
Remember why you brought it home.
Open your original notes when you open the bottle, then record what you think this time. The wine, the visit and the bottle stay connected.
Private to your account, with no public feed or followers.
Pricing
Start with a free journal. Get more help with Pro.
Logging is never gated: your tastings and notes are free, with no limit and no expiry. The map is never gated either: nearby wineries and the 14,000+ winery directory are on every plan. Pro adds the parts that help: a bigger Sommelier with photos and the guided tools, drink windows and Tonight’s Pick, photos on tastings, the bigger scanner, wine regions and live winery details, and CSV export.
Free
Your everyday wine journal.
$0
For keeping track of what you taste, and trying everything once.
- Unlimited tastings and notes
- Winery discovery, visits, your map and Wishlist
- Winery websites and directions
- Up to 25 bottles in your Cellar
- 3 label scans to try
- 5 messages with Sommelier a month, text only
Pro
More guidance with every tasting.
$9.99/ month
or $59.99 / year, with a 3-day free trial (annual plan only)
Auto-renewing subscription. Cancel any time.
Everything in Free, with more room to ask, scan and explore.
- The Sommelier, up to 50 questions a day, with photos and web lookups
- Photos on your tastings and visits
- An unlimited Cellar, with drink windows, insights and Tonight’s Pick
- Choose from a wine list: picks in your budget
- Your taste report, tier list and full year in review
- Plan a wine day, and US wine regions on your map
- Live Google ratings and hours on winery pages, where available
- Up to 30 label and tasting-card scans a day
- Opened, blind tasting, compare and cellar value
- Export your tastings to CSV
Compare all features
| CompareEverything you log is yours on either plan. | Free$0The full journal, for good | Pro$9.99/monthor $59.99/year, with a 3-day free trial on the annual plan only |
|---|---|---|
| Journal | ||
| Tastings, ratings and flavor notes | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Photos on tastings and visits | ✕ | ✓ |
| Compare up to 5 tastings side by side | ✕ | ✓ |
| Tier list | ✕ | ✓ |
| Year in review | Summary | Full recap |
| Wineries | ||
| Your map, pins, visits and Wishlist | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Nearby wineries and the 14,000+ US winery directory | ✓ | ✓ |
| Winery websites and directions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live Google rating and hours on winery pages | ✕ | ✓ |
| US wine regions on the map | ✕ | ✓ |
| Plan a wine day: stops, drive times and a schedule | ✕ | ✓ |
| Cellar | ||
| Bottles tracked | Up to 25 | Unlimited |
| Drink windows and insights | ✕ | ✓ |
| Tonight’s Pick | ✕ | ✓ |
| Opened, your book of finished bottles | ✕ | ✓ |
| Cellar value | ✕ | ✓ |
| Sommelier and scanning | ||
| Label and tasting-card scans | 3 to try | Up to 30 a day |
| Messages with Sommelier | 5 a month, text only | Up to 50 a day, with photos |
| Looks up specific wines on the web | ✕ | ✓ |
| Choose from a wine list, in your budget | ✕ | ✓ |
| Your taste report, from your whole journal | ✕ | ✓ |
| Blind tasting | ✕ | ✓ |
| Your data | ||
| Export your tastings to CSV | ✕ | ✓ |
| Delete your account and everything in it | ✓ | ✓ |
A Sommelier on call
Ask what to open, what to try next, or what that grape on the menu is. Every answer starts from your own ratings, not a crowd score. Ask about one specific bottle and it can look the wine up, and show you where it read.
Choose from the list in front of you
Photograph the wine list, set a budget, and get picks with a reason each, grounded in what you have rated.
Your taste, written down
Once you have rated a few wines, the Sommelier reads your whole journal and tells you what keeps standing out, and what to try next.
A day in wine country, planned
Pick a start, a date and two or three stops. You get drive times, a schedule with room for lunch, and directions to each stop. Turn on wine regions to see US wine regions on the map.
The winery, live
Every winery page adds its Google rating, opening hours and website next to your own history there, where available.
A Cellar that watches itself
Every bottle you own, with drink windows, insights and Tonight’s Pick from whatever is ready. No 25-bottle ceiling.
Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription: $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. The 3-day free trial is on the annual plan only. It renews automatically until you cancel, and you can cancel any time in your App Store subscription settings; cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends to avoid the next charge. Billed through your Apple Account. Prices shown in US dollars; the App Store shows the price in your currency before you buy. Pro features carry the fair-use limits described in our Terms of Use.
Questions
Answered before you ask.
When can I get it?
Cork & Note is available now on the App Store for iPhone.
Will my journal get locked behind Pro?
No. Your tastings and notes, your map, your visits and your Wishlist are free for as long as you use the app, and a Free Cellar holds up to 25 bottles. Pro adds the bigger Sommelier with photos and the guided tools (choose from a wine list, your taste report, plan a wine day), photos on tastings, drink windows and Tonight’s Pick, wine regions, live winery details, bigger scan limits, and CSV export.
Is my journal public?
No. Cork & Note has no public feed and no followers. Your tastings, photos and Cellar are private to your account, and you can delete the account, and everything in it, at any time.
Do I have to be at a winery to log a wine?
Not at all. Tag a winery or a restaurant when you are there, or log a Tuesday-night bottle with no place attached. A wine without a location still counts.
Does it work when the tasting room has no signal?
Wine country and cell coverage are old enemies. Syncing and the AI features need a connection, and Cork & Note tells you when you are offline so you always know whether a note has landed.
Is the Sommelier always right?
No. The Sommelier is an AI guide and it can make mistakes. Check the details that matter to you, and treat it as a well-read friend, not an authority.
Who is it for?
People of legal drinking age. The app asks before you can use it. Please drink responsibly.
Your next tasting deserves to be remembered.
Download on the App StoreFree on iPhone. Pro is optional.