An independent reference for wine
Every country, read the same way.
getwine is not a shop. For every bottle it answers three questions: who is behind the label, what the medal is really worth, and what shops actually charge for it. Each country has its own site, on its own domain, built from its own registers and its own shelves. One method; no verdict is carried from one country to another.
Country editions
One edition per country.
Each edition is published on the country's own domain, built from its registers, its shelf prices and its languages. A medal is weighed the same way everywhere; a producer, a price or a verdict belongs to the country it was collected in.
Georgia
getwine.ge
Saperavi, Rkatsiteli and the qvevri tradition — from the Alazani valley in the east to the hills of Guria.
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Moldova
getwine.md
Fetească, Rară Neagră and a long habit of Bordeaux blends, across the Codru hills and down to the Prut.
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Armenia
getwine.am
Areni and the volcanic highlands of Vayots Dzor, where the oldest cellar yet found was cut into the rock.
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Austria
getwine.at
Grüner Veltliner, Riesling and Blaufränkisch — from the terraces of the Wachau to the plains of Burgenland.
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Opening soon
These editions have their domain, and their catalogues are being prepared. Until they open, their domains lead here.
Croatiagetwine.com.hr
Plavac Mali and Pošip on the Dalmatian islands, Graševina inland — a coast and a continent in one country.
Greecegetwine.gr
Assyrtiko on volcanic Santorini, Xinomavro in the north — islands and mountains, and very old vines in both.
Hungarygetwine.hu
Furmint and the botrytised sweet wines of Tokaj, Kékfrankos from Eger to Sopron.
Israelgetwine.co.il
Cabernet and old-vine Carignan in the hills of the Upper Galilee, and vineyards planted in the Negev desert.
Portugalgetwine.com.pt
Touriga Nacional on the Douro's schist terraces, Vinho Verde in the wet green north, and a lot of old vines between them.
Ukrainegetwine.com.ua
Odesa Black and Telti-Kuruk on the Black Sea coast around Odesa, hillside whites in Transcarpathia in the far west.
How every edition works
- No scores of our own
- We collect facts and derive a category, and we say which facts. Critics' scores appear under their names, on their own scales.
- Sources named
- Register, competition, year, shelf price: we say where each fact comes from and when it was collected.
- Verdicts are not for sale
- A category, the weight of an award or a place in a collection cannot be bought, in any country.
- A right of reply
- Producers can dispute any fact or category. A document changes the record, and every change to a category is logged with its date. The right of reply is free.
The app
Point the camera at the bottle.
The getwine app works in your phone's browser and installs to the home screen: photograph a label in the shop and read the record behind it, from the same catalogue the editions publish. For now it reads the Georgian catalogue.
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Scan the label
Photograph a bottle on the shelf. No account, no loyalty card, nothing to sign up for — one picture is enough.
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Match it to the record
The label is matched against the country's catalogue: the same rows the editions are built from, in the same order.
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Read what we hold
Who is behind the label, what the appellation allows, what the medal is really worth and what the same bottle costs in other shops.
The app adds no score of its own and no sponsored placement. If the record is thin, it says the record is thin, exactly as the editions do.
An Android package for Google Play is planned. There is no date yet.
