Is This New Wine Guessing Game the Most Elitist App Ever?

Wednesday, Rob Wilder, the co-founder of ThinkFoodGroup, announced the release of WineGame, a simple app that instantly turns any bottle into a fun, multiple-choice blind tasting game. Even if you don’t know Wilder’s name, you certainly know his partner’s: star chef and humanitarian Jose Andrés. The game began as a late-night lark between Wilder and Andrés who would challenge each other to blindly taste and then correctly name the wine hidden inside a paper bag.

Blind tasting is a big part of what all sommeliers do to earn their stripes. And it ain’t easy. The challenge of deductive tasting is one of the reasons why there are less than 250 Master Sommeliers in the world. That’s why another one of the brains (and palates) behind WineGame is Keith Goldston, who became America’s 47th MS and the youngest to pass all three parts—theory, tasting, and practical—on the first go.