The Best IPhone Apps for Wine Enthusiasts

Whether you are a wine connoisseur or a wine novice, you love wine. And you iPhone can be the perfect companion in your effort to be more connected to it. The following top-five wine apps on your iPhone include recommendations, reviews, ratings, and important information about wine, assisting you to discover, select, taste, pair, and collect wine.

Here are the top 5 iPhone apps for wine enthusiasts:

a) Hello Vino (Cost: Free)

Hello Vino is the #1 iPhone app for wine lovers. Hello Vino practically functions as your private sommelier offering recommendations for how to pair food with a particular wine or what wine to use on Thanksgiving dinner as well as what wine to enjoy on special occasions and holidays or offer as a gift. On its user-friendly, graphically-charming interface Hello Vino allows you to search for specific wine labels among thousands of options; browse by taste preference; consult on food pairing; get details on wine ratings and price; read wine reviews.

b) Pair It (Cost $4.99)

Wine Pro features 1.2 million wine labels and prices, more than 270,000 expert reviews and 23,000 Gary Vaynerchuk wine-related video reviews. With Drync Wine you can research any wine you like; get informed about current market prices, read wine details including vintage, region or style; read expert and professional reviews; get recommendations, save wine bottles to your Drync Virtual Cellar; keep quick notes for future reference; share your experience with your social network on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Besides, Drync Wine Pro recently launched drync.com which allows you to manage your own wine collection and search for wine recommendation according to the ratings provided by the users of Drync.

c) Cellar (Cost: $4.99)

Cellar is an iPhone app that makes you feel like you have your own wine collection. You actually manage your own wine selection by customizing your bottles per shape, color or wine label; adding information about the wine producer, vintage, grape, region, or price; searching your entire collection based on keywords; restoring and merging your cellar; keeping statistics on your wine collection.

d) Drync Wine Pro (Cost $4.99)

Wine Pro features 1.2 million wine labels and prices, more than 270,000 expert reviews and 23,000 Gary Vaynerchuk wine-related video reviews. With Drync Wine you can research any wine you like; get informed about current market prices, read wine details including vintage, region or style; read expert and professional reviews; get recommendations, save it to your Drync Virtual Cellar; keep quick notes for future reference; and share your experience with your social network on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Besides, Drync Wine Pro recently launched drync.com which allows you to manage your own wine collection and search for wine recommendation according to the ratings provided by the users of Drync.

e) Wine Events (Cost Free)

Wine Events is a great iPhone app that assists you in finding wine and food events in your area. By browsing the calendar of LocalWineEvents.com for food, wine, beer and spirit events that take place in your nearest locations, you can enjoy wine as social activity and join other wine aficionados in wine tastings. Wine Events features also interactive location-based maps and provides full details for the events so that you know what to expect.

Sources:

http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/iphone/articles/80101.aspx?p=2

http://mashable.com/2010/11/15/apps-for-wine-enthusiasts/