- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95, Mac OS 9 and below
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Whether you're a connoisseur who needs some Merlot management in the cellar below, or a novice who's just been handed the restaurant wine list by a first date, help is now at hand. LandWare has teamed with respected Wine Enthusiast Magazine to produce the premier mobile companion for choosing, evaluating, managing, and enjoying wine. The Wine Enthusiast Guide represents the most comprehensive, handheld, wine guide available. Highlights include:
- Quickly select wines by cost, rating, style, grape variety, and region
- Authoritative up-to-date reviews, ratings, and details for over 10,000 wines worldwide
- Complete wine cellar and buying list management
- Comprehensive wine glossary with over 1,400 terms and definitions
- Interactive vintage chart with wine maturity and harvest-quality ratings
- Gain further wine knowledge with an in-depth Wine 101 course
- Maintain personal tasting records and notes
- Beam wine details to another handheld
- Supports removable Palm OS memory cards
- Sophisticated compression minimizes memory usage
Imagine having a team of experts with you every time you select a bottle of wine. With a few taps of the stylus you can instantly access up-to-date details, reviews, ratings, and retail prices for over 10,000 wines worldwide. Simply enter the first letters of a wine's name to scroll immediately to its entry or use the wine selector to quickly set your own searching criteria.
Tap on a wine in the buying guide to view detailed information including retail price, quality rating, production quantities, bottle size, alcohol content, region details, and more. Zero in on that special bottle. No matter what your wine preference is, the Wine Enthusiast Guide will help you find it. The unique wine selector enables you search on any combination of wine style, grape variety, region, as well as retail price and rating.
Search by Wine Style: Looking for a nice after dinner port? The Wine Enthusiast Guide will find it for you in a flash.
Search by Grape Variety: from Agiorgitiko to Zinfandel the varietal selector allows you to choose from over 190 different grape varieties.
Search by Region: Choose from over 600 of the world's wine growing regions. Filtering by country makes selection even easier.
Search by Qualifier: Which wines have better cellaring potential? Which offer the highest quality for a modest price? A single tap and you will know.
Manage your wine collection
Now you can use your handheld to help track the multiple aspects of a growing wine collection. The Wine Enthusiast Guide will help maintain cost and purchase details, stock and placement records, ageing information, tasting notes, and much more. Whether you have an extensive multi-room cellar or just a stash in the closet, the Wine Enthusiast Guide represents a powerful tool for tracking your investment.
To drink or not to drink. That is the question. The next time a restaurant substitutes a wine vintage, reach for the Wine Enthusiast Guide. You can use the interactive vintage chart to quickly evaluate the maturity and harvest quality ratings for 50 regions/wine styles over the past 15 years.
Improve your wine knowledge
Was the waiter describing the Cabernet or the carpet when he gushed over its "velvety texture?" Quickly look up the definitions to these and over 1,400 other terms that cover all aspects of wine appreciation including:
- Producers
- Regions
- Grape varieties
- Wine types
- Production terms
- Scientific terms
- Label terms
- Foreign terms
Whether you're adding a new dimension to your cooking, selecting glassware, or navigating a wine list, the optionally installable Wine 101 tutorials will help you refine and expand your wine expertise. The Wine Enthusiast Guide's set of 21 lessons have been specifically designed to help unlock the secrets of wine. The essentials of each lesson can be absorbed in just 10 minutes and include topics on pairing food with wine, ordering wine, wine and health, styles and vintages, glassware, serving and cellaring wine, and much more. For the beginner who wants to find out what all the fuss is about through to the seasoned connoisseur with years of experience, the depth and variety of the Wine 101 tutorials ensures there is something for everyone. The Wine Enthusiast Guide for Palm OS is ready to be served. It has a good solid backbone, excellent balance, a well developed palette with a pleasant, colorful appearance.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not as useful as I had expected,
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This review is from: Wine Enthusiast Guide 2003 (CD-ROM)
An ardent oenophile (what an elderly friend of mine playfully calls a dedicated wino) with a newly purchased PDA, my discovery of this program in a Wine Enthusiast catalog conjured expactations of mountains of reviews at my fingertips. I also expected to be able to organize my own collection and record my impressions of wines I had drunk, as well as any notes and recommendations from others for wines I might like to try in the future. While, in all honesty, this program does this, it doesn't do it as well or as smoothly as I had expected.Take for instance the reviews section. A surprising number of the listed wines carry only a breif description but no review. (Piedmontese wine lovers beware - the objects of your affection are sorely under-represented and even if listed are rarely reviewed.) The cellar inventory aspect in good but not great. The autotext completion features that save one having to write "Bordeaux" one hundred times or that fill in appelation names from the first few letters lack many names that would be expected in a program such as this. Perhaps most distressing is that Bordeaux wines are startlingly under-represented in the review section. Many premier chateau are not cited at all. Am I being a bit too demanding of a $... program? Perhaps. Nevertheless, I was a bit less than satisfied with the program. Were it possible to return software programs, I suspect I would. Alas, such things are not allowed. I am left with it to make of it what I can.
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