I am a little late in the game in joining the world of online beverage notes. I started keeping wine notes in a moleskine journal about 3 years ago at the suggestion of a wine purveyor from Randolph Wine Cellars who felt that drinking and recording was the best way to learn. For me, it is a bit more of an obsessive/compulsive thing that I do now as a matter of habit whenever I pop a bottle open at home. I am a "recorder" and note taker by nature, so this practice lends itself to my personality. However, in doing so, I have learned a thing or two about how both the taste and perception of any given wine is ever evolving and dependent on umpteen variables. Comparing notes on the same wine across vintages or the same vintage over time is always interesting.
I was recently at an informal beer tasting at a friend's home and he was taking beer notes on his iPhone and uploading them directly to the Internet. His friend was taking notes the old fashioned way in a journal with the intent of uploading them to the same website. I mentioned that I keep wine notes, but am not very good with beer notes (stemming from a deep felt insecurity with my ability to identify such flavors as 'band aid' - a legitimate, albeit unsavory note). They asked about which website I use for my wine notes, which made me realize I wasn't even aware of a site that would allow users to keep 'online notes.' Now I am. Here are a few:
Wine Notes:
www.logabottle.com
www.grapemojo.com
www.corkd.com
Beer Notes:
www.MyBeerNotes.com
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