Decanter Know Your Wine

I was really enjoying the app and enthusiastic about several of the changes being made to the modules and quizzes, until I realized that after the more recent updates, all access to new learning content was completely lost. The quizzes show up fine, but I have no access to much of the learning content needed to prepare. I have tried deleting and reinstalling the app, restarting from scratch, and adjusting every setting I can find but nothing has worked and multiple communications with the support team have been unfruitful. Very disappointing since this was previously a very useful and enjoyable app. I would recommend not subscribing until the glitches are worked out as it is extremely frustrating.

Know Your Wine is an excellent tool to extend your knowledge of wine no matter what your current level experience. As an educator, I am impressed with how effective the algorithm is. You will be amazed at how much you will learn.

When I click on the modules, which I paid for through the subscription, the modules will not load.

Just when you get going it kicks you out and asks you to come back in, the navigation is really convoluted. I’d rather pay more for it upfront then became a fight into losing money because the content is excellent.

I like the app. It's definitely challenging for a wine neophyte like myself. Recommend adopting a flashcard system based on neuroscience like the Forever Fluent language learning app (Too many nuances to go over here, but it's about a lot more than using flashcards). Other two improvements I'd recommend are the inclusion of maps and pronunciation (sound files) for those of us without the requisite language background. Bottom line is I do recommend the app and enjoy using it on a daily basis.

The concepts presented by the app have good intensions and seem to structure a natural learning of wine while avoiding short term memory learning faults. Unfortunately the early questions being wildly out of order lead to consistent frustration on aspects way too difficult for the section. During the first few modules, why are questions on specific vineyards or labels included? Material on wine label basics or what specific label information means has not even been introduced yet. Asking about individual champagne label details that early on provides no opportunity for learning and incentivizes one time memorization in order to progress only to be forgotten soon afterwards. While the majority of questions are appropriate, encountering unrelated random facts adds artificial difficulty and confusion.

It claims to NOT be a quiz app but it starts off that way as soon as you install and run it. It overrides the iOS sound volume settings and plays loud sounds even though I’ve turned down the volume to zero. It has one sound setting that it doesn’t allow me to turn off(the option is disabled). Pure piece of crap. Stay away.

I love this app, but hate the ridiculous time restrictions. You can answer 10 questions and then need to wait for up to an hour to continue. I would love to be able to put in half an hour to the study and review of the questions, but the app locks you out after a very brief time. Impractical if you have limited time to dedicate to your studies.

I am paying for two modules and am still waiting for these questions. It’s a strong learning platform, but the mandatory waiting to access questions is a deterrent.

This was a great app until the last update. Originally subscribed modules could be locked or unlocked. Only questions for the unlocked module(s) would then appear. With the upgrade the lock/unlock was removed. Now all pervious modules in the list will need to be muted to get the module for which question are really wanted. That is if you want module 30 then modules 1-29 will need to be muted . You can not choose to have multiple modules at one time as was possible prior to the update. If only one module at a time is OK then it’s still a good app.