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Hugh Johnson’s iPhone app reviewed

by on 12. Oct, 2010 in Apps

Hugh Johnson is one of the wine worlds cuddly creatures. He may not be seen too much in the media these days, but he still delivers his hugely successful ‘Pocket Guide to Wine’ each and every year. The ever popular paper version of the Pocket Guide now finds itself reformatted for the iPhone and WineOfTheWeek [...]

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iPhone App delivers Veuve Clicquot via GPS. Say What?

by on 19. Jul, 2010 in Apps, Wine Tech

WineOfTheWeek has been slurping on about the lack of innovation in the SmartPhone sector when it comes to wine brands for some time now. Just as we were planning on opening up the iPhone SDK to create our own Frankenwine’s monster, along comes this super concept from Veuve Clicquot. The idea is simple. If you [...]

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5 iPad wine apps reviewed and rated

by on 12. Jul, 2010 in Apps, WOTW News

The iPad has been out in the world for a couple of months now so we thought it time to make an early assessment of the first wave of wine apps to hit the iTunes store. Let’s start be saying that “best” is an extremely relative term when it comes to describe the early contenders. [...]

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Pulp Fiction Wine Labels: Bought to you by Some Young Punks

by on 22. Jun, 2010 in Wine Label Oddities

It’s 3am. The phone rings. It’s the D.A’s office. A gruff voice barks “Get down to the parking lot at 59th street, Marlowe needs you”. You roll out of bed, stumble into your car and head downtown. Rain is falling. You pull up alongside the flashing blues. A wine bottle lies empty on a road, [...]

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The new iPhone demands new Wine Apps. NOW!!

by on 10. Jun, 2010 in Apps, WOTW News

Amid the plethora of articles  reviewing iPhone wine apps (of which Jonathan Ray’s is but the latest), one question has remained unasked. Where are the wine producers? We have apps that allow you to scan barcodes, apps that allow you to search and rate wines and apps that allow you to inventory your cellar. But [...]

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"Found" in Barn – Is this the New Bordeaux Premier Cru 6.0?

by on 21. Apr, 2010 in WOTW News

You are looking at Bordeaux’s next Premier Cru. It was found in a barn in the Medoc, camouflaged to look like a bottle of village plonk. WOTW got it. We drunk it. It’s the real thing, and we can reveal today that the man behind the wine is none other than Baron Robert de Parker. [...]

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World of WineCraft: Let Battle Commence

by on 23. Oct, 2009 in Gadgets & Paraphernalia

When I first moved in with my present wife  four years ago, I decided to sell my PS2 and give up a life of gaming. I didn’t see this as a sacrifice, and it certainly wasn’t an act of submission to the impending life of servitude. No. Gaming for me had run its natural course [...]

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