As I wrote earlier, there are a few wine tools available for your new iPhone and iPod touch. I downloaded Wine Log yesterday and can offer my critique.
Wine Log has a simple interface, but that doesn’t mean it’s a simple application. It’s stocked with plenty of features. The app allows you to input the name of the wine, the winery, the region, the varietal, rate it from 1 to 5 stars, and add a note about the wine. You can also use the iPhone’s camera to take a picture of the label. You can sort through the wines by name, region, and so on.
What I like about the app is that it has built-in flexibility. You are not limited, for example, to the varietals that the authors have included. Adding a new one is a simple task.
The only thing I can think of that I would like to see added is a feature where it uses iPhone’s location services to find retailers nearby who have that wine in stock–that would be really amazing, but I’m only half-serious.
This is a really nice application, and for $3 (US), it’s hard to beat. Five stars out of five here.
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Can the Wine Log APP be transferred to the iMac ??
Morton, unfortunately it won’t run on an iMac (or any other Mac) for that matter.
It has been a while since I looked at wine databases. I know my way around the Mac, but not the Windows world. Perhaps one of you readers with some writing talent would like to review some of the Windows options and do a guest post?