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  • California Winery Maps - Our Website maps give you accurate wine region maps with driving directions that are customizable and printable. The iPhone app includes these maps but offers GPS navigation.
  • California Wineries - Use our tools to customize your trip for your interests. Over 800 searchable winery profiles await your investigation. More info than another other source for most wineries.
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Description & Benefits

  • Not your usual iPhone app. Few if any apps use their own data. We work full time at accumulating and updating the data for Winery Quest. It will never be perfect but with Winery Quest you have the best winery data available for deciding your next wine region adventure and the premier wine tasting road trip toolkit.


  • Introduction We are developing Winery Quest Pro as the premier wine tasting road trip toolkit. Jim Preston is a former CPA and Katya is the data
    Winery Quest home screen The home screen of Winery Quest Pro 3.0. First select a region then choose any of the four options for discovering wineries.
    quality and reporting leader of a national insurance brokerage. We're serious about data quality for decision making, and your wine tasting trip deserves the best.
  • Features
    • Region Maps - Hand-mapped over 800 wineries in 20 regions. Wineries that are regularly open to the public and ready for you to visit.
    • Winery Profiles - Research extensive winery profiles with data being added almost daily.
    • Select - 4 ways to select wineries to visit! Tap your favorite selection tool, tap to add the wineries to your trip log, tap to map, and hit the road!
      • Winery Profile Filter - Tap buttons to select options that interest you then map or list the results.
      • Region Maps - View a region map and select wineries in an area you want to explore.
      • Spin-the-Bottle - Shake your iPhone to spin the bottle. It will select a winery for you.
      • Photo Select - Flip through winery profile photos.
    • Trip Log and Map - Add your selected wineries to your trip log and map a trip customized for your interests.
    • Simple GPS navigation - Navigate in Google Maps. We can not do driving directions because we place markers by hand instead of using geo-coded addresses that the directions software needs. So use your favorite navigation app and refer to Winery Quest when you get near your destination.
    • Trip support - The only California wine country personal advice available. Email support from the app or use the WineQuesters.com forums.
    • Other features - Shop-the-Maps for tasting room specials (beta) and Favorites.
  • Winery Filter - Simply tap buttons to filter wineries with dozens of options including prices and varietals. Quickly narrow your selection of wineries to visit. The filter has two screens, one for features and one for wines. Scroll down the screen for even more options.

    • Winery Filters


  • Winery Quest is the only option for 100% accurate locations in 20 California wine regions. Other iPhone winery tasting room apps and GPS navigation devices don't use accurate tasting room locations. Software is used to "geo-code" lists of mailing addresses - cheap, but often very inaccurate. The software guesses where the location may be and in rural areas the map markers can be far from the actual tasting room location.

    Besides, they use mailing addresses and many tasting rooms aren't located at the business mailing address. (See our example below.) We drive to each tasting room and hand-place the map markers, saving you time and frustration.

  • Do you really want to navigate with the map mess on the right?
  • We give you more info than other options and it is live data. Our winery profiles data is constantly being updated and we are actively adding wineries that have tasting rooms open to the public. Updates from wineries, tasters, and our field trips helps to keep the data current. Wineries can directly update their info . No other wine travel app has this power and reliability level. Never perfect of course, but improving daily. We have a lot more information and our ratings and reviews to add to the profiles. Your trip is better with better information.
  • Color coded map markers with labels make your trip much easier.

Plus there is a bonus with our live data. Wineries can post special tasting room discounts and you can see them in our Web or iPhone maps in almost real time! Nowhere else can you Shop-the-Maps™ (beta) ! Start saving money now!

Support and Feedback is available at Winery Quest iPhone app forum. Membership is easy and free, and we don't spam you of course. Or contact us by email at: questers at winequesters dot com. Or use the link in the left column.

Screen shots and discussion

  • Trip Log Select wineries in any of the four selection tools and create a trip log.
  • Winery profiles. Profile information for almost every California winery that is open to the public regularly in 20 regions. For Napa we have 140+ wineries to explore and will add more that met our criteria - open to the public on a regular basis.
  • Select wineries. Two of the winery selection tools are Spin-the-Bottle and Photo Selector.
  • Shop-the-Maps™! (beta) Find those great case specials in tasting rooms! Tap on the star map markers to see what treat they have for you. This is a new feature and many wineries are not yet aware of it. We are working to increase participation. Please bug the wineries into posting their specials.

FAQ's

  • Are all California wineries included? No. Due to cost and time we focus on wineries that are open to the public on a regular basis and are in major wine regions. Those are the wineries that most tasters are likely to visit. Not all wineries in wine regions are regularly open to the public and we don't want to clutter our maps with them. There are small groups of wineries everywhere but we aren't going to spend our time and money adding them to our database.

    Wineries can signup, create their profiles, and maps themselves for free but they rarely make that effort.
  • What is the difference between Pro and Lite versions? Lite has only the maps and profiles. Pro has important and very useful additional features and we are continuing development of Pro. Lite will get no more significant features. We're not sure why anyone would want Lite but it is available for those few who do.
  • Can winery data be downloaded to your iPhone everywhere? Our app downloads live data from our database. You get the latest data but it requires at least a weak Internet connection. In some places the AT&T network is congested due to iPhone use and other issues. Signal strength is not the same as Internet connectivity "backhaul". Congestion can block Internet access even with five bars signal strength.

    We can often download the data to our iPhones on the older Edge network even with no bars for reception. This can take a minute but you have the live data.

    All apps using live data have this frustrating problem occasionally. A common fix is to reboot the app and/or your iPhone and try to get the network's attention again. iPhone users are sucking up 10 times the bandwidth of other smart phone users and overloading the network. AT&T is spending $18 billion and adding 2,100 towers to fix this problem.
  • Is there a work-around for no cell service? Sure, display the map before going into areas unlikely to have cell service and you are good to go - if you don't close the app! Google will not let us cache their map tiles. We've been able to use our app in all California wine regions that we cover with only a few connectivity problems in the more remote areas.

    We will try to have a data and map caching feature in an upgrade soon. Open Street Maps will let us cache the map tiles in memory for you but they aren't as accurate as Google Maps.
  • Is Winery Quest like WineQuesters.com? Please do not expect smart phone applications to have all the features of a full Website. The processors are way under the power of a desktop or notebook computer and the browsers don't have the functionality of computer browsers. Yes, it is amazing the power that is in your hands but it is quite limited. Developers are pushing the limits but we need to stay inside the technological boundaries and not ruin your experience.
  • Navigation but without driving directions? If you can read a map then navigation with our maps is easy enough. We can not provide driving directions because we hand-map our markers. The software for driving directions requires geo-coded addresses which aren't accurate. Use your favorite navigation app to get close to the wineries and then refer to Winery Quest in the final few miles.

About this project

We developed WineQuesters.com and Winery Quest to solve problems that all wine tasting road trippers experience. We've interviewed hundreds of wine tasters, vintners, and tasting room staff throughout California wine regions. We continue to work on the site and data almost every day with a staff of 3.

We are building this extensive database by hand and drove tens of thousands of miles in California wine regions. Our cost for each winery marker and profile is about $500 in time and money. App sales help support this project but sales mostly cover the cost of advertising on Google. The total cost to us in time and money exceeds $500,000 - with almost no income to pay for it yet.

If you buy our app please join WineQuesters.com and our Winery Quest group. You can provide feedback as we develop more features. If sales are good and we find enough interest we'll ad more features.

Katya and I use this app to navigate California wine regions and it works fantastic! I finally have the winery navigation device I've needed for over 40 years of wine tasting road trips and it is now available for you.

- Jim Preston

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