Decanter Know Your Wine

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.

Have really enjoyed this app, I paid the extra $ for all the modules but upon last update, I lost all the paid modules I didn’t think there was a time limit on them because there are so many and it’s such an in depth app Again, this is a great app and enjoy and would be 5 stars But if I got pump $10 in all the time to only get so far on these modules, then not worth it If this is an error then I’ll adjust rating.... That was my review over a month ago Since, I reached out to tell them about the issue Was told they’ll look into it I’ve sent emails stating I don’t care that they restore my status to just allow me to continue to use the app with modules I PAID for. I sent multiple emails to no avail, even stating just open up the modules for me to start over... nothing I guess this company feels they think they can just take peoples $ and not provide what was sold It WAS a great app and for those with no issues, congrats... just sad they messed up and don’t want to confront the issue

This is a great quizzing app to pass the time in a productive way. Only reason it’s not a 5 Star is that the sentence structure of some questions is odd and possibly incorrect. I always use the in app report tool so that’s already great there. Also there’s no quiz section on Germany which I know has many great wine regions and to be absent from this app surprised me a little, and I live in Germany as well so I wish I could learn more about their wine from here.

Related to question depth, are the “easy” questions included in the “hard” or is it two different sets of questions? I want my depth set to hard, but I don’t want to miss out on “easy” questions that I might not actually know the answers to. It looks like the total number of questions went from 1479 to 1477 despite modules being added for Austria. Why is the number of questions going down? Also, what is the “accelerated end phase”? I hoped this would mean I’d get more/different questions but that doesn’t seem to be the case?

Just downloaded it went through it once. Good app to help you finesse your knowledge on wine. Surprised there is no Germany or Alsace modules. But great app. I use it to quiz myself on the fly.