Appiphilia: Days of wine and iPhone
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Our gastronomic gurus over in the Food section have been sampling some of the food and drink iPhone apps in the App Store.
You can read more about restaurant criticS. Irene Virbila‘stake on WineSnob on the Daily Dish blog, but here’s the quick and dirty:
What it is: Although Virbila says she has barely dipped into the hundreds of applications out there, she has been tapping in her sipping with WineSnob, an app to catalog tastings on the go. You can snap a label’s photo, look up that obscure grape varietal and enter your tasting notes and rating in the database, where it will be saved for future reference.
What sizzles: There’s a helpful and handy glossary for those who are stumped by terms such as aftertaste, carbonic maceration, legs or tartrates.
What fizzles: Forget using the application’s list of ‘tasting tags,’ though; Virbila says they are distressingly vague. But you can add your own notes.
Bottom line: While the app could be more robust, you can raise a glass to wine snobbery with it.
-- Michelle Maltais
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