Here is the top 10 Fine wines from the app’ mobile on wine so that all the wines you taste are in your pocket and shared with your community.
There is a time that those under twenty cannot know. The one where you had to have a good memory or a notebook to remember the top wine you met in the evening…
Now, we have a second digital brain grafted into the hand and frankly, there is nothing more practical to remember what you may have drunk. Now the problem is different, with the multitude of applications that exist for smartphones, paid or not, it is difficult to make the right choice.
To help you, I put on this top 10 free wine apps on Android and IOS to become a wine pro. You can also find the top apps here : « The best wine applications 2012 "
1 – Rate and choose your best wine : Vivino
Wine recognition applications using the camera, there are nearly a hundred. Choosing the best is therefore quite difficult. With Vivino, You can not be wrong ! It is the most widely used wine smartphone application around the world - 10 million users —.
With this application, you will be able to take a picture of the label of a wine bottle and the application will give you a lot of information : community ratings by vintage, his price, its ranking, its production region, information on the vineyard, its grape variety, adapted dishes, tasting comments and a lot of other information.
After the tasting you can also rate it and comment on it by adding it to your wines and a personal tasting profile will be established to indicate wines likely to please you.
The little extra : the ability to scan a restaurant's wine list to make a choice
Lien : www.vivino.com
The app is not for you ? Then try Wine Advisor –first french application – or TagaWine.
2 – Find out where your wine comes from : Wines and Vintages
Sometimes having an opinion is not enough. It can always be interesting to better understand where our wine comes from. This is why I have selected the Wines application for you & Vintages which is based on data from the Guide Hachette des Vins to provide you with essential information on the appellations : menu, colors, main grape varieties, aging potential, operating temperature. With this application, you will also have access to a dictionary of 230 words of wine to be unbeatable.
Finally, the application also offers vintage notes by region. With just a click, you will be able to know the best years.
The little less : although a lot of information is still useful, the application has not been updated since 2013.
3 – Find where to buy the finest wine : Gutter
This app is clearly one of my favorites. With Goot, you can find the wine that matches your tastes, expectations and budget, while allowing them to find it at a neighborhood wine merchant thanks to a geolocation service. By price, color, food and wine pairings, by nearby wine merchants or even by desire, you have no more excuses to find the right wine at the right time and close to you. All you have to do is choose between reserving it and going to the store to collect your precious bottle or have it delivered.
For each wine offered, a multitude of useful information is offered to you : a technical description of the wine, associated dishes, the opportunities that match and the recommendations of "gooteurs", name given to users of the application.
The little less : to use this service, you have to live in a big city
4 – Store your fine wine in the cellar : SmartCave
Free cellar management apps don't hit the streets, but SmartCave is free to download with the possibility of taking a premium subscription to receive updates for your wines already in the cellar. On the wine sheet, you will find information such as the peak period of wine, pairings with dishes ranging from aperitif to dessert, serving temperature and many others.
The application is not yet very user-friendly, but the evolution is impressive since its creation.
The little extra : thanks to recommendations, you can add wines to your cellar according to your tasting profile
The app is not for you ? Then try EuroCave - the application has many flaws, but it works — .
5 – Accompany your fine wine with a dish : UnMetsUnVin
This application is the mobile extension of the toutlevin.com website which has more than 10.000 accords. Look for a dish and it will give you the regions and grape varieties to favor and vice versa.
The little extra of the application : the collection of recipes to prepare good meals.
The little extra : with 129,119 pairings between 4,606 dishes and 1,566 wines from 23 pays, little chance of not finding the perfect match !
6 – Participate in events dedicated to wine : Vinexplore
The best way to experience wine is to taste it, but it's even better when someone can explain how to do it. What could be better than participating in an event dedicated to wine ? Each month I offer you the main events that take place in France : The wine agenda by Beaux-Vins, but there are many others.
Thanks to a geolocation service, you will be able to find events near you, free or paid. You can also search the whole of France by affinity : distance, date or keywords.
To know more : Vinexplore : the mobile application for events dedicated to wine
7 – Keep in touch with friends who love wine : Swig
Love wine, beer or cocktails is one thing, sharing it is another. Swig is a wine app’ a little apart. His goal is to share his wine discoveries, spirits and cocktails with the SWIG community by taking a picture of themselves with their drink.
The little extra : the community is international. However, it is useful to know how to speak English to use it
8 – Have fun and discover the world of wine : Oenoquizz
Learning is good, having fun is better. Multiple choice, word grids, wines from France and around the world, appellations, grape varieties… The perfect recipe for fun and entertaining learning. With OenoQuiz you will tackle all subjects related to the wine industry.
Classified into different levels, they allow the user, both amateur and professional, to develop at their own pace and to flourish as the game progresses. With the swipe of a finger, learn more and more thanks to the new "hint" feature. With the multiple question formats available, you will quickly forget the monotony of ordinary quizzes !
9 – Love beautiful natural wines : Raisin
Natural wine is not just a liquid and consumers understand it well. Raisin is a brand new application that will allow you to follow the news of the actors and representatives of natural wine. Met, visits, interviews, Trade shows, books, press articles and reports will also be at the rendezvous.
With over 700 wine merchants, restaurants and bars referenced and geolocated throughout France in New York and London and soon in the world, Raisin offers the largest database of places to consume natural wine. Each of the establishments offered meets a simple requirement : the wine list must offer at least 30 % of natural wines.
The little extra : no ratings or ratings on the wines. We share what we like and that's it.
10 – Pretend to be a wine pro : Pipotron You
In good company at the restaurant, during wine fairs or with friends, you dream of impressing those around you with beautiful tasting notes ; or just have a good laugh. The Pipotron du Vin finally brings you the solution to shine in all circumstances by generating for you thousands of different comments.
With this app, you will never be short of comments whatever the type of wine. To you the lyrical flights worthy of the greatest tasters (or impostors) ! Because when you discover the Pipotron for the first time, you realize that others discovered it long before you ...
The little extra : the application does not require an internet connection, you can therefore bluff everyone even at the bottom of a cellar !
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I just downloaded the PLOC application from the Android store. Didn't have time to try it but it looks well done.