A Touching Wine List

South Gate wine tablet

As more and more common folk flock to the iPad, restaurant and bar owners are wisely trying capture its uniqueness, sustainability and supreme functionality. New York City's South Gate restaurant converted their wine list into the browser-friendly format. Many restaurants have opted for paper-free wine lists (SD26 and Aureole), but each have turned out to be subjectively cumbersome and the diners often default to a real live sommelier.

iPad apps and overall user functionality will continue improving to educate and satisfy drinkers in the quickest way possible.

App Review: iWhiskey

It's time to use technology for good and sip seriously. iWhiskey, the robust whiskey app by expert F. Paul Pacult, gives you all the low down you need for this renewed brown spirit. The 600 reviews are categorized country - American, Canadian, Irish whiskeys and single malt scotches.

Features include ratings, ABV%, dynamic search, descriptive review of each whiskey, my favorites, 10 whiskey cocktail recipes and images, plus you can browse the least to most expensive.

The only drawback is the download price of $10.99. But chances are if you're into paying high dollar for a good whiskey then you're beyond the age of free wet t-shirt apps.

Download from iTunes

Watch a demo

Project: Box Wine

Kickstarter is a way to fund creative endeavors from blossoming business owners, musicians, thought leaders, etc. It's powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.

The posting here is for a group of guys trying to finish a movie about "box wine and sloth". Who doesn't love a good box wine movie?

Check out Kickstarter to support your local starving (or thirsty) artist.

Plan Your Trip to Sonoma with Snooth

Snooth is a comprehensive website dedicated to sharing the best wine knowledge to wine lovers.

Recently Snooth has teamed up with Visa to let you plan your trip to Sonoma by using Google maps to guide your way through the region. Each winery is highlighted on an interactive map where you can pick and choose the winery based on location and then read their profile as well as the wines they produce.

The promotional spin is that if you're a Visa Signature card holder you will receive: 

• Two complimentary tastings per cardholder
• Savings on wine purchased same day in Tasting Room and non-wine purchases
• Savings on Reserve tastings and special wine-and-food pairings

Read more: http://www.snooth.com/wine-tours/sonoma/#ixzz0wybSK9kL

Twittering with the Wine Harlots

The Wine Harlots are two spunky wine drinking sisters who grew up in Washington State. They recount their wine adventures and cost-saving recommendations to their over 16,000 Twitter followers. Learn wine and much more from these sassy siblings.

Food & Wine - Monthly Drinking Club

Look to the wine experts at Food & Wine Magazine to give you their drinking opinion in this amped up wine-of-the-month club. Two different clubs are suited for your wine drinking personality - Adventures at $90 per month and the Collectors at $180 a month. Each club comes with 6 bottle shipments you can use to share your new found wine knowledge.

Taste thousands of hard-to-find wines, pair each wine with recipes straight from the pages of FOOD & WINE magazine, choose your deliveries every 1, 2 or 3 months, and cancel anytime.

App Review: Flip 'N Drink

Gary Regan (Joy of Mixology and Bartender's Best Friend) and Mardee Haidin Regan (Ardent Spritis) team up to bring you a iPhone app for serious mixers and shakers.

Flip 'N Drink is a $3.99 pay for play app that's worth the price of admission. Unlike other cocktail recipe applications this is unsponsored app is created by drinkers for drinkers. This grown up bartender's guide offers great photos, search engine, a corral for your favorite recipes and a suggestion box of "if you like this, drink this". They also offer a free or "lite" version.

Check out their video demo on YouTube.

*Available for iPhone only