iPhone Wine Apps - A British Perspective

My eight and six-year-old sons are more technically advanced than I am. I was given an iPod – or was it an iPlayer? – for my birthday and within moments my boys had mastered it while I soon gave up. The damn thing never seems to play what I want to hear. As for iPhones, until recently they were a complete mystery.

But then I discovered that wine applications were all the rage. Apparently they have the potential to transform the experience of buying wine. All you have to do is take a photograph of the bottle in question and the "app" will tell you what you need to know: the price, who sells it and even what it tastes like.

But does this miracle gadget actually work? Determined to find out, I dragoon my friend Tim Harrison into tutoring me. As a serious wine buff and founder of the Mobile Consultancy, an apps advisory business, he's well-placed to whip me into shape. [Read More]

Article from BC Wine: http://www.bcwine.com/