The interesting thing about information is that there never seems to be enough of it. Or at least, that’s what we seem to think these days. It’s not enough to have our 5 senses giving us the input we need to function each day, but now we need to know other things that are beyond our own realm of existence.

Huh? Whaddya talkin’ about now?

Well, there are these apps that I’ve been adding to my iPhone that do all kinds of things. The phrase, “There’s an app for that,” started out as a helpful hint, merged slowly into a punch line, and has now taken the last exit to cliché-land. But part of that is true. It does give us lots of information and some of it is not only important, but downright helpful.

Take this past Summer Wine Festival. I needed to know where and what time the Similkameen BBQ King Championship was happening and I consulted the Wine Festivals app on my phone. Along with a list of wineries and restaurants, it also lists information for all of the events that happen in each of the seasonal Okanagan Wine Festivals. Until that time, I had not really used it all that much and so after a bit of fumbling, I found what I was looking for and made it to the event on time.

Here’s where the app gets better. I can enter in all my wines that I taste and give them ratings and information to help remember what it was like. Later that weekend, I tried out a bottle of Noble Ridge’s new Mingle, the newest wine from this small Okanagan Falls winery and entered it into my app. It was a little confusing at first but I put in the information that I felt was important – beautiful tropical aromas, off-dry, medium finish. I gave it 3 stars and called it a day. (I would have given it 4 but I didn’t really like it being off-dry – it’s just not what I prefer in a Pinot Gris. I’ve been a big fan of their Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay for years but this wine just didn’t do it for me the way that their Pinot Grigio always does.)

As I add more wines to it, it will become my new reference for wines that I taste. Unless I forget my phone while I’m shopping, it will always be there when I’m wandering through the aisles at the wine store where that kind of information will come in handy. And just like wine; there will never be enough of it.

Cheers from wine country!