Wines of the World Gold Edition

by Multimedia 2000, Inc.

Product Features

• Macintosh
• Reference
• Box

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000054P8P
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 29, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,709 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #75 in Software > Education & Reference > Arts & Culture
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

If you can't drop everything and embark on a global tasting tour, Wines of the World Gold Edition may offer the next best thing. Aimed at users who would like to cultivate their taste for fine wine, this program is packed with information and multimedia goodies that will delight, educate, and inform you on the finer points of wine culture.

Using Wines of the World's maps, photographs, and extensive videotape footage, you can explore the winemaking universe down to its tiniest details. Topics such as grapevine cultivation, winemaking, and the particular characteristics of the wine-producing regions of the world are all explored. What's more, the program helps users educate themselves on the specific merits and weaknesses of vintages. Using this program, you can learn to judge a wine's sugar content and relative dryness or its compatibility with differing types of meals, or how to select a wine you are likely to enjoy.

In the Gold Edition, many new vintages have been added to the wine review list, bringing the total to 40,000. It does not limit itself to the most expensive labels, instead identifying the top wines in every price range. It has full Internet compatibility and allows you to make up a personal database of favored wines, with notes on everything you have tasted. Its search function and glossary are both simply designed and effective. The program also has some humorous touches that enhance the pleasure inherent in its use.

This CD runs a simple program and is fully compatible with older PCs and Macs. As such, it lacks high-end Flash animations or any of the other high-impact characteristics of newer adult educational software. What it has, instead, is a lot of information. Do you want to go on virtual tours of world vineyards, or widen your appreciation of the wines served at your favorite restaurants? Either way, Wines of the World Gold Edition will teach you the terminology, knowledge base, and fundamental skills to get you started down the road to wine expertise. --Alyx Dellamonica

Product Description

Enter the lush world of wines and winemaking, where you will learn at the side of internationally known winemakers and connoisseurs such as your on-screen host, Ronn Wiegand. Broaden your ability to choose and serve the best wines on the planet, as the Gold Edition of Wines of the World helps you.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Waste Your Money, December 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wines of the World Gold Edition (CD-ROM)

I received this as a gift and upon trying to install it found that:

1. It will only install and run on Windows XP when set to run in Windows98/ME compatibility mode.

2. The title, although still for sale is no longer supported by the publisher and the online content (reviews) are no longer accessible. i.e. web links are broken.

3. While the database of older wines still works, the software is archaic and functions poorly.

The publisher of this software really needs to remove it from distribution, what a rip-off!!!!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars no web based browsing, January 4, 2003

By 

Sharon Martinez (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wines of the World Gold Edition (CD-ROM)

The Gold Edition Wines of the World came out of the package and loaded in like a dream after we changed the compatability to run on a top of the line operating system. The information that was loaded in was great and presented very slickly even without Shockwave. When it came time to set up the web browser is when things got interesting. Trying to get the browser to work took over and hour. When it finally did work the web site for the software was nonexistant. So we called the tech support 1-800 number to get a little help. Imagine our surprise to be directed to an adult phoneline. Oh Boy. So we called long distance to the company to get a little help. No luck everyone was out for the holidays and would not be back until the new year (wish my employer had this type of setup). Since this was a gift we ended up looking like total shmoes and took the gift back with promises to find something else. We have since decided to keep the software ourselves as we cannot return it. We currently are in contact with the company that produces it to find an amicable solution to get this software to work. Long and short of the review is that it has great infrormation, but poor web based browsing.