What is Cork Club?
Cork Club is a wine journal app for enthusiasts who want to log, share, and revisit their tastings. Structured WSET-style notes, map view, and smart filters. It’s your personal wine memory, built for learning and discovery. 🍷
Problem
Wine enthusiasts currently use physical journals or generic note-taking apps to log their tastings, leading to disorganized notes, difficulty in tracking wine origins, and challenges in revisiting past tastings for learning or discovery.
Solution
A mobile app (wine journal tool) where users can log tastings with structured WSET-style notes, visualize wine origins via map view, and apply smart filters to categorize and rediscover wines. Example: Adding tasting notes with aroma/flavor tags and geotagging a wine's vineyard location.
Customers
Wine enthusiasts, sommeliers, and hospitality professionals (ages 25-55) who regularly taste wines, seek to document experiences systematically, and value community sharing.
Unique Features
WSET-aligned structured note templates for professional-grade logging, interactive map to trace wine provenance, and AI-driven filters (e.g., by region, grape variety, or tasting notes).
User Comments
Simplifies wine logging with professional formats
Map view adds contextual depth to tastings
Smart filters help rediscover forgotten favorites
Great for WSET students
Sharing feature enhances community engagement
Traction
Launched in 2023, featured on Product Hunt with 500+ upvotes. 10k+ downloads on iOS/Android. Revenue undisclosed.
Market Size
The global wine app market is projected to reach $2.8 billion by 2027 (Statista, 2023), driven by 240M+ wine consumers seeking digital tasting aids.
