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Do you spend time in your local wine store staring at the rows of rows of bottles trying desperately to remember the name of that red you tasted amd loved last month?  That was me not too long ago.  I tried to keep a list but never had it with me.  When I finally loaded it into my blackberry, I'd spend time looking for the name of the wine because I couldn't remember what the bottle looked like.  Take heart; there is a solution for all of our wine forgetfulness.  

Now I use www.evernote.com to keep track of the labels of my favorite wine bottles or just bottles I want to remember later.  Evernote is free (you can read a post I did a while back about it here) and is a service that helps you keep track of things.  It can read pictures.  If you want to remember a bottle of wine, take a picture of it with your camera phone and have it automatically dumped into a folder that you name "wine" in Evernote.  The next time you are in the wine store, you can bring up the pics and page through them, or if you are having a good day and can remember the name, Evernote will sort it out and bring it up for you.  This is a camera phone photo taken of a bottle my husband bought as a joke, since I'm a knitter.  It now resides in Evernote.

To celebrate wine and remembering... I offer you the following tips for buying good wine on a tight budget compliments of Pennsylvania's Official Wine & Spirits Quarterly.