Approach Guides Wine Guide for iPhone app for iPhone and iPad
*** RATED #1 FOR WINE EDUCATION BY FOOD & WINE MAGAZINE!
*** The only mobile app dedicated exclusively to learning about wine, Approach Guides is used by professionals and consumers alike.
*** It’s not about wine ratings. You can get 100-point-scale wine ratings from many other sources. Rather, to give you information that will make you knowledgeable and able to communicate what makes wines unique, Approach Guides provides an in depth look at a wine regions grapes, appellations, and vintages.
WHAT THE WINE PRESS HAS TO SAY
• Food & Wine Magazine: “Only God (and Google) knows how many wine apps exist...Some are great, some not so much. But these seven are crucial." Approach Guides is the best for "Wine Lessons.”
• Decanter Magazine: "Dozens of apps offer background details on regions, varieties, and food pairings, but some are more accurate and usable than others. Approach Guides is the most complete and user-friendly. You can search by style, region, grape or food match, and entries are cross-referenced. It also supplies a guide to vintages for each region and plentiful maps..."
SUPPORTED WINE-PRODUCING REGIONS
The app supports — profiling all regions, appellations and grape varieties — Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain and USA (Sonoma, Napa, Washington State and Willamette Valley). We expect to add support for South Africa in 2017.
Development by Amudo LLC
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Pros and cons of Approach Guides Wine Guide for iPhone app for iPhone and iPad
Approach Guides Wine Guide for iPhone app good for
One of the better, more practical wine apps, with a neat and easy to use interface and good, solid information. Would like to see additional features such as personal tasting notes, where users can enter details of a particular wine they have found. Also, the location services part of the app does not work on iPod Touch.
I bought this app way back when there were only 2 countries in it, now theres way more content not really found anywhere else. If youre looking for regional data, especially when doing wine tours in France, say, this is a great app!!
A good guide to wine regions and grape varietals. More regions are being continually added.
Being not an expert about wines and grapes, this app it is very interesting to me. I would just love an upgrade that allows to see the food pairing directly in the description of the wine itself (very useful as well when in a hurry, before a dinner!)
Ive been using AG Wine since it only featured Italian wines. AG continues to deliver smart and usable information about selecting wine without getting bogged down in labels. The app is best for those who want to appreciate wine and learn about its context.
The fact that there are only Italian and Spanish wines in this app is a big limitation for a novice wine drinker looking to gain a more sophisticated knowledge of a broad range of wines that might be commonly available in the US.
I am assuming geographic areas will be added with further updates. In the meantime, the general information about grapes, and the descriptions of wine terminology and concepts are helpful irrespective of the selection of wines the app has (for now).
Some bad moments
I was excited about this app but found out that it only discusses wine from Italy or Spain. There are so many other great wine regions that this app missed out on. Very disappointing.
I thought this would be cool but waste of my money. This was a Spanish wine app ONLY there was nothing about Italian wine. Only one region. ????
Waste of money
This app might help the novice that does not appreciate the difference between the varietals, but it ends there. There is zero information to assist in selecting wines between producers. Disappointing.
Just updated to v5.3 and it crashes EVERY time I try to access data. Too bad because I had used the previous version a lot. I immediately deleted the updated one and synced with my desktop to reinstall the older version.
I downloaded this app as part of the free promo but was very disappointed to see that Canada is missing from wine regions. We have a few very prominent wine regions that are not at all listed.
Thats it. Thats all. If you want Italian or Spanish wine, this app is great. But it has nothing else at all.
