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A Few Navigation Hints
- Buttons with Red or Green surround or play button are active hot links, ones with Black are not
- All actions in Exploring Classic Wine Styles are Swipes except Wine Vinotar® Selection or Wine Style Word Cloud Selections which are Taps these are steps in which you need to make a choice
- The Dotted List Control (upper left) takes you back to the Vinotar® Selection screen and the Line List Control (upper right) takes you to the Main Menu.
- The Left Angle Control "<" (upper left) is the same function as the "GoBack" function in your browser either will work
- Tap the Magnifying Glass icon to input text searches, which you can also voice input on mobile phones. Note: Exact matches of multi-word search terms e.g Cabernet Sauvignon, require "Parentheses" for an exact match
Main Menu Screen
This menu assesses all the major functions
Exploring Classic Wine Styles
Discover wines by Varietal Classic Blends, Taste Profiles or Appellation Standards or Label Information
Find wines styles by menu lists, text input, voice input of a specific varietal, blend or appellation/region.
Discover wine appelation/regional standard styles
Discover your favorite varietal wine styles by exploring wines with our Vinotars® as guides
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Intro to Vinotars®
BottleCru® Vinotar® line-up
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Discover, remember and communicate wine styles and their key differences
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Explore the aromas and tastes of each wine style, see where they often come from and get recommendations of other wine to try
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Find food and cheese parings for each wine style using the Go-To Food™ Pairings
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Browse selected/recommended wines of that style
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Explore A Wine's Style Based Upon Its Label
You can explore a wine's style by inputting the wine label's information
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Recording Wine Style Experiences
Record your tastings of wines with the My BottleCru™
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See your Wines Styles ScoreCard™
See an analysis of your wine style ratings by using My Wine Styles Scorecard™ feature
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Learning to taste like a professional
Get the most out of your tasting experiences by following our BottleCru Tasting Guide™ feature
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BottleCru® Curated Wines: Ordering wines in your preferred styles
Experience and or order wines in your preferred styles and price range using BottleCru® Curated Wines™
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Confidently select and order the wines you prefer in "high pressure" restaurant situations following the BottleCru Dining & Ordering Guide™ feature
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BottleCru Food Pairing Guide™
Pairing wine to food & food to wine
Find wine styles that pair best with the foods you've selected or are planning to serve with the BottleCru Food Pairing Guide™
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Get a list of all the wine styles which pair well within a specific category of foods or cheeses
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Select pairings based on your stored wine tasting preferences as well as our recommendations
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Pairing two dishes with one wine
Find wines which pair well with multiple dishes using our Multi-Meal Paring feature (patent pending)
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Finding wines of a specific style
Find varietals and blends that match a specific style profile
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Managing you wine collection
Creating your wine collection
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Editing/Searching your wine collection
Displaying Your Collection
Other Wine Collection Functions
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Learning wine Lingo
Making one button access to our app on your smart-phone for fast access on IOS Safari home screens
- Launch Safari and navigate to www.BottleCruApp.com
- Tap the Bookmark icon at the bottom of the screen (it is a box with an upward-pointing arrow).
- Tap Add to Home Screen.
- Accept the suggested name for the shortcut, or enter one you like better, then tap Add to save the new shortcut icon to the home screen.
- If you want to move the icon to another screen just tap and hold the icon until it shakes and then you can move the icon to any screen you prefer
Making one button shortcut access to our app easy on your Home Screen in Chrome
- Open the Chrome app on your handset and navigate to www.BottleCruApp.com
- Open Chrome’s Settings menu by tapping the three vertical dots found in the top-right corner.
- Select the “Add To Home Screen” option.
- A new screen that will allow you to place the icon automatically or choose where to place it.
- Tap the “Add Automatically” button to place the new icon on your Android device’s Home Screen wherever space is available.
- If you want to place the icon somewhere different on your Home Screen, touch and hold the icon, and drag it to your desired location.
Trouble With The App
Almost all of the problems encountered with the app have to do with Browser issues. We all use internet browsers everyday to do many functions, so it's not surprising that eventually the browser has an issue. The way to resolve the issue is to close the browser and clear the browser cache.
Here's how to clear your Browser Cache on IOS Apple Phones
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/clear-cache-iphone-3609079/
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/clear-cache-iphone-3609079/
Here's how to clear your Browser Cache on Android Phones' Chrome Browsers
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392709?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392709?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en