Want a liquor store in your pocket? How about a bartender at your doorstep? With a slew of new alcohol apps you can now bring the bar to your home, ASAP. In Los Angeles where everyone parties like a rock star from the hills to the high rises, driving can be risky business. Happily, Saucey launched in May and touts themselves as the Uber of liquor delivery. CEO Chris Vaughn offers a super streamlined way to order anything from a $15 bottle of Pinot Grigio to a $1,200 bottle of Johnny Walker as you simply wait at your door for free delivery- but the prices per bottle are a bit higher than what you’re going to find at your nearest liquor wholesaler. Saucey donates a portion of its profits to Charity Water which provides clean drinking water to impoverished communities around the world. www.sauceyapp.com
Operating in Boston, Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Hamptons, Chicago and LA, Drizly wants to be the Amazon of alcohol. They don’t mark up in-store prices and delivery in NYC is free. Now you can receive a good bottle of Montrachet almost as fast as your new downloaded e-book. Twenty four year old entrepreneur/CEO Nicholas Rellas is definitely on to something. www.drizly.com
San Francisco-based Vivino is seriously the coolest app in the mix. If you’ve ever taken a fuzzy iPhone snap of a bottle at a restaurant or dinner party only to wake up the next day and not be able to decipher the words, this label-scanning app is your new best friend. Not only does it log your finds, but it tells you where you can buy the bottle in question, and offers the ratings, reviews, and suggestions of other wines you may like. Your smartphone just got more dangerous. www.vivino.com
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