CorkRules today announced that its digital wine experience app has been awarded a 2023 Best Mobile App Award (BMMA) for &ldquo;Best New Mobile App&rdquo; in the lifestyle category. The BMMAs were built to showcase and feature the latest and greatest apps across the mobile landscape. Each award contender is evaluated by a committee of highly experienced app designers and developers. These leaders of the industry are dedicated to uncovering the next big player in mobile applications.

CorkRules launched in February 2023 as the first digital wine experience aimed at making it easier for consumers to navigate the restaurant wine list. Through the CorkRules app, consumers can easily find the perfect wine for every occasion based on their preferences, connect with friends and wine experts to discover new wines to try, and learn more about the world of wine. Users can get personalized wine recommendations at thousands of restaurants making what can often be an overwhelming experience an easier one. CorkRules is available for free on Apple iOS devices in the App store.

CorkRules entry for the award included showcasing app features and functionality that are designed to help consumers feel more confident and comfortable ordering wine in restaurants by creating more price transparency and relevancy based on consumer preferences during key wine moments. In a recent survey conducted by the company, only 9% of respondents indicated feeling confident when making a wine selection or purchase. And only 23% considered themselves knowledgeable on wine.

Key features of the app include:

 
- Personalized Wine Recommendations from Thousands of Restaurants: The CorkRules database includes wine lists from restaurants across the United States, and the team is actively expanding the database to include more restaurants every day.

 
- Wines Tailored to Each User: Special Occasion? On a budget? Love Bordeaux? CorkRules provides users with expert wine recommendations tailored to their preferences in just a few taps.

 
- Social feed: CorkRules users can keep up with friends and wine experts too, including certified sommeliers through the CorkRules feed, built with social media like features including the ability to post, like, comment and share updates pre, during and post a dining and wine experience. This will allow users to keep up on restaurant trends and discover new wines.

 
- Connect with Friends: CorkRules provides the ability for users to &ldquo;Friendsource&rdquo; trusted wine recommendations by discovering wines friends have rated, reviewed or shared like to expand their wine choices

&ldquo;The CorkRules team is thrilled to be a BBMA Best New App Platinum award recipient. We&rsquo;re just getting started and are passionate and excited about making the world of wine easier to navigate and enjoy for all consumers,&rdquo; said Robert Tas, CorkRules Founder and CEO.

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About CorkRules 

CorkRules is the first digital wine experience aimed at making it easier to navigate the restaurant wine list by providing consumers with personalized wine recommendations. Launched in February 2023, the CorkRules app gives consumers personalized wine recommendations for every occasion at thousands of restaurants across the United States based on a user&#39;s wine preferences, expert opinions and friends&rsquo; reviews. Available for download now on Apple iOS devices. To learn more, visit CorkRules.com

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About The Best Mobile App Awards (BMMAs)

The Best Mobile App Awards journey started in 2012 when there was a need in the marketplace to have a central authority to highlight the best mobile apps available on the market. Apps nominated for a BMMA are evaluated through a non-bias process via a committee of highly experienced app designers and developers. These leaders of the industry are dedicated to uncovering the next big player in mobile applications. The BMMAs covers all markets, from Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Phone to wearables like Android and Apple Watch, to ensure every app gets a chance to be considered among the best there is, regardless of operating system.

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CorkRules has been presented with the BMMA ‘Best New Mobile App” Platinum award, the highest award achievement in category.

CorkRules Wins the 2023 BMMA Platinum Award for "Best New Mobile App"

Wines from grapes grown in higher altitude areas with cooler climate has become quite the trend recently. This specific growing environment gives intense flavor but elegance and freshness to the final wines. To highlight and champion these conditions more and more winemakers are starting to use alto as a marketing and labelling term to show their grapes were grown in high altitude vineyards.

Decoding the wine label: Alto

Brut is a word often seen on labels for different kinds of sparkling wine. As you may have discovered when drinking these wines, it indicates that the wine is dry, meaning there is no perceived sweetness in the wine. But how about Extra Brut or Dry, what do they mean and are they the same as Brut?

Decoding the wine label: Brut

Semi-sweet Riesling, a type of wine falling out of style. It’s a shame, since these wines are perfect to pair with flavorful cuisines like Asian or Mexican, or simply drink as they come under the summer sun. The higher level of sugar left in the wine also means that the alcoholic fermentation was stopped before finishing, providing a wine with lower alcohol level and therefor easier grabbing a second glass of.

Decoding the wine label: Spätlese

Have you ever heard the word Xinomavro? Most have not. It is however a word on many sommeliers’ lips today, as it happens to be considered the grape variety with the highest quality in Greece, and one that is trending at the moment. The fact that Greece have been making wine for a long time comes as no surprise, but they have never exported an amount to make sure wine lovers around the globe tried it. With the growing wine tourism many have discovered these wines and are serving them in wine bars and restaurants in many countries today.

Decoding the wine label: Xinomavro

Chianti Classico, Valpolicella Classico, Soave Classico… Why do all these Italian wine regions have the Classico addendum and what does it mean? What is the difference for wines labeled as Classico?

Classico is a wine term in Italy seen on a few wine labels and it indicates that the wine’s from the historic center of the region, the heart. Using Chianti and Chianti Classico and their Sangiovese-based red wines as an example, Chianti is a rather large wine district within the Tuscany region. Chianti Classico is located withing Chianti as the central part and the one that originally existed. Back then this smaller region was actually called Chianti, but as the region grew the quality of the wine plummeted and the well-known characteristics of these red wines were watered down. The reputation took a hit and sales diminished. Eventually this led to the creation of Chianti Classico, which would be drawn from the original Chianti borders to recover the typicity of these wines. Today the quality of both Chianti and Chianti Classico have risen a lot due to modern techniques and knowledge about pruning, planting and temperature control in the winery.

Decoding the wine label: Classico

In the rarefied world of fine wine, where bottles can command prices equivalent to luxury cars, authenticity is everything. Laurent Ponsot's gripping memoir "FBI: Fake Bottle Investigation" reads more like a high-stakes thriller than a traditional wine book, chronicling his relentless pursuit of one of the wine world's most infamous counterfeiters, Rudy Kurniawan.

From Burgundy's Vineyards to the FBI's Most Wanted: A Winemaker's Quest for Justice

Chablis – one of the more popular styles of wine today and a region known by many. Most are familiar with the word Chablis and the light, fresh white wine with a touch of minerality it brings. Even though it’s a renowned wine, few knows what it really is.

Decoding the wine label: Chablis

Many grape varieties around the world of wine have names local to the region or country they’re grown in, even though they’re exactly the same. The most famous example would be Syrah in France where the same grape is named Shiraz in Australia. Another variety with two names is Pinot Grigio, or Pinot Gris.

Decoding the wine label: Pinot Grigio

Have you ever seen the term sur lie on a wine label? It’s not a grape and not a wine region, but a winemaking method used to give certain styles of white wine a rounder texture and a more complex flavor profile.

Decoding the wine label: Sur lie

Ai Fiori

Alexis Rogers

Ai Fiori

Music Intro:

RT: Hello and Welcome to CorkRules! A podcast where (in each episode) we will review a wine list from your favorite restaurants. I&rsquo;m your

host Robert Tas along with Alexis Rogers, Wine Educator and Restuarant Sommelier. Hello Alexis, Welcome back!

AR: Thanks Robert!. I&rsquo;m really stoked to be combing through the gargantuan wine list at Ai Fiorii with you today!

RT: This list is a perfect example of why we created CorkRules, to demystify the wine lists of your favorite restauranst. Being handed a wine list can be very intimidating - especially if it&rsquo;s 60 pages long!

Our aim is to help prepare you to navigate that list, find those hidden gems, value wines, bottles not to be missed or that special bottle that will take your dining experience over the top.

Today we are talking about the illustrious Ai Fiori, located on the 2nd floor of the Langham Hotel on 5th Ave. &ldquo;Award- Winning&rdquo; is an understatement here - Michelin Star, Esquire Magazine&rsquo;s Best New Restaurants in America, Zagat&rsquo;s Best Italian in NYC, Forbes Magazine 4 stars, the list goes on and on. Most pertinent to our discussion though is the Wine Spectator Grand Award. Less than 100 restaurants in the world have earned this super prestigious award which requires at least 1000 listed bottles and vigorous cellar and restaurant inspections.

So Alexis, I guess the question is, where do we start?

AR: With a list like this, it is probably best to employ the services of a sommelier. While this list is impeccably organized, the sheer amount of bottles alone is overwhelming for anyone. Even if you were able to narrow it down to a grape and a region, a sommelier would be able to help guide you to the specific bottle that&rsquo;s best for your budget and particular taste. Say you&rsquo;re looking for a French Chardonnay, they could save you flipping through over 5 pages of White Burgundy to help you differentiate between Puligny Montrachet and Mersault.

RT : I agree 100%! Their assistance is indispensable with a list like this! I do love White Burgundy though! But they sure can get expensive - hundreds of dollars a bottle can be pretty standard and thousands for Grand Crus. Is there anything close in a more affordable range?

AR: Absolutely! The 2019 Arbois Chardonnay Vielles Vignes from Vin Sans Nom. This Chardonnay hails from the lesser-known region of Jura, France, sandwiched between Burgundy and the Swiss border. The climate and soils are very similar to Burgundy so it&rsquo;s no surprise that the wines of this region are starting to gain a cult following - especially the Chardonnays! You can usually find these bottles on wine lists for less than $100 - that is when you CAN find them on wine lists.

RT: I love trying familiar grapes from unfamiliar regions, it really shows how important location is in wine!

RT: So now I&rsquo;m starting to get hungry, and I know we can&#39;t eat at Ai Fiori and NOT order the Astice entree! This butter-poached Nova Scotia lobster has been called &ldquo;The Greatest Dish in the World&rdquo; by a NY Post food critic. What are we pairing with this?

AR : With this dish in mind, I&rsquo;ve selected the 2011 Karthouserhoff GG Riesling. This is actually a half bottle so it&rsquo;s perfect to dedicate to just one course. People sometimes balk when I suggest a Riesling and definitively proclaim that they &ldquo;don&#39;t like sweet wine&rdquo;. But Riesling isn&#39;t always sweet, especially these days and especially from its ancestral home of Germany.&ldquo; G.G.&rdquo; is a classification that exists outside of German Wine Law that indicates that the grapes come from a top vineyard site agreed upon by the best producers in the country and that the wine will always be very dry. These bottlings are real stunners! Super juicy, incredibly bright and bursting with notes of fresh lime juice, lemon curd, cold pineapple, green apple, hints of tropical mango, delicate blooming white flowers and beautiful wet rock minerality. The bright acidity will cut right through all that rich butteriness and the apple notes will mirror the apple in the dish.

RT: Wow! My mouth is watering just listening to those tasting notes!&nbsp;With over 1000 bottles, what would you say is one not to be missed?

AR: It&rsquo;s hard to pick just one, with 8 pages of Barolo, 3 pages of Champagne, and 3 pages of California Cabernet but this list&#39;s most impressive offerings are definitely in its Burgundy selections.&nbsp; The 2015 Domaine Faively Chambolle-Musigny caught my eye in particular. 2015 was a beautiful vintage - not only in Burgundy - but across most of Europe and it&rsquo;s usually a good bet when it comes to selecting a bottle. While vintage is very important here, producers are just as important here and Domaine Faively is one of the best. Established in 1825, it is now in its&rsquo;s 7th generation of family ownership. The sub-region of Chambolle-Musigny is famous for the intensity and femininity of both its reds and whites and this Pinot Noir will envelop you in fragrant strawberry, raspberry and violets while a few years in the bottle are going to give it gorgeous earthy truffle, mushroom, and forest floor notes. This wine would be absolutely killer with the veal breast ravioli w/ royal trumpet mushrooms - or nearly anything on the menu really.

RT: That really sounds magical! Alexis, thank you so much for coming through this expansive list and finding us some gems! To our audience, Thank you all for joining us here on CorkRules.

If you would like us to review one of your favorite restaurants, please send us email to:Info@corkrules.Com or visit our web website where we have a request form available and we will do our

best to get it in the queue as quickly as possible. We are looking forward to being with you on

another CorkRules episode soon. In the meantime, please check out our website for other episodes of your favorite restaurant wine lists. And finally, drink what you love and please make sure you drink responsibly.

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