Use your digital camera to remind you of good wine
Lots of wine drinkers I know have the following dilemma: Geez, I can't remember the name of that wine that I liked so much.
That’s because we buy a wine or drink a wine and like it so much, but we never record the experience.
Lots of wine experts say you should keep a journal, a little notebook in which you jot down the name and the year and varietal of the wine and a little bit about why you liked it so much. That’s good advice -– but it’s old-school.
Do you really want to carry a notebook around with you to record your wine-drinking experiences?
Let me suggest a more modern way: Drink the wine -– and take a picture of the label. Use a digital camera. Download the image onto your computer – and then burn a CD of all of the wine labels. Keep the labels only of the wines that you like. That way, you really, really don’t need to keep any notes. All you need to know is that you liked it.
Take a look at the labels on your CD before you go out and buy more wine. If you encounter a wine you like at a friend’s place, ask the friend to do the work for you: Take a picture of the label and email it to you.