WineScore for Palm Devices Helps Shoppers Select the Right Wine
SAN FRANCISCO — September 13, 1999 — You're in a store, about to buy a bottle of wine. Which one do you choose? Or, you pick up a wine list in a restaurant and are faced with a vast variety of wines.
WineScore offers the first comprehensive solution to the problem. WineScore(TM) software for Palm Computing(R) devices is the first totally unbiased database of ratings of wines from virtually every California winery. If the wine is on the shelf or wine list, WineScore will tell how good it is. Since the software is on the Palm(TM) device, wine shoppers can take it with them anywhere they might want to select a wine. WineScore software is marketed through the Internet at www.winescore.com, and various other software e-commerce Web sites, for the low price of $ 24.95.
Unbiased Ratings for More Than 4,000 Wines
WineScore software includes ratings of more than 4,000 individual wines from more than 800 wineries. The ratings, based on the opinions of major wine critics and on the results of important wine competitions held throughout the United States, are presented on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 representing an absolutely world-class wine.
The scoring formula takes into consideration:
1. Medals won at every major 1998 and 1999 California wine contest including:
LA County Fair, Orange County Fair, Farmer's Fair — Riverside, Calif., San Francisco Fair, Dallas Morning News Contest, California State Fair, National Orange Show, San Diego Wine Competition, Enological Society of the Pacific Northwest Wine Competition, Grand Harvest Awards and the West Coast Wine Competition.
2. Ratings from every major wine reviewer in the U.S., including Parker, Roby, Meade and Olken.
3. Medals won at the prestigious World Wine Championships (Chicago) and InterVin competitions.
It's Very Easy to Use
WineScore works like other Palm Computing device applications with which users are already familiar. To find the rating of an individual wine, first, select its varietal from the drop-down list at the top right-hand corner of the screen. Then find the individual wine either by using the Up and Down scroll keys, or by writing the first few letters of the winery name in the lookup field. A wine can also be found by using the Palm device's built-in FIND function.
Tapping on the name of any winery will bring up a window that displays all of that winery's varietals and their respective scores. This screen is especially useful if the user happens to find a varietal in a store or restaurant that is not contained in the database. Looking at how the other varietals the winery makes are scored will offer a pretty good idea of how the unlisted varietal should score.
WineScore is a very compact program, requiring less than 100K of memory space in the Palm Computing device.
About WineScore
WineScore, founded in 1999, builds software for the Palm Computing device. WineScore software provides the only totally unbiased database of ratings of virtually every California wine, as well as selected wines from Washington and Oregon wineries.
For further information, visit the WineScore Web site at www.winescore.com, call 877/845-9990 or e-mail info@winescore.com.
Direct all editorial inquiries to David or Roni Kaye at KPR Inc. Phone: 818/368-8212. E-mail: dave@kprinc.com or roni@kprinc.com.
CONTACT:
WineScore, San Francisco
Dean Devener, 415/488-1824
or
KPR Inc.
David Kaye, 818/368-8212