Enotria Guide app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Melissa Smith
First release : 29 Jun 2010
App size: 2.67 Mb
Enotria Guide: All-new audible app makes pronunciation of the worlds wines fast, fun, and easy!
Top five Ways to Use the Enotria Guide:
1. Impress your date!
2. Impress your coworkers!
3. Impress the guy at the wine store!
4. Use to learn the answers to key questions on professional wine and sommelier exams!
5. Use to train staff, sell more wine, become an asset to your establishment!
With this app you get:
•A database of over 200 wine terms cover the primary regions of France, Germany, and Italy
•Audio tracks by masters in their fields ease learning and pronunciation
The Enotria Guide contains over 200 common French, Italian and German wine terms and pronunciations, with each region broken down into the primary appellations, chateaus, varietals and styles. Masters of each region provide their voices to educate novices and experts on the proper articulation of the worlds finest wines.
Whether you are an enthusiast, a student, a restaurateur, a server, a consultant, a salesperson or just curious, the Enotria Guide will serve as an invaluable resource for learning the pronunciation of wine at both a basic and advanced level. A simplified navigation structure and starring system allows users to flow effortlessly between categories, save names for further study and help to learn the most difficult-to-pronounce wine terms.
Regions Include (at launch):
•France is broken down into Bordeaux, Burgundy, Loire, Rhone, Alsace, and Champagne. From there users are have access to the list of the 1855 Bordeaux Premier Crus, the 13 varietals permissible in the Chateauneuf de Pape and over 100 French specific wine terms.
•Italy cataloged by regions, DOCGs and primary varietals.
•Germany is indexed into primary regions, varietals and styles, ranging from Eiswein to Kabinet within the QmP category.
Features Include:
•A Study Guide allows users to bookmark and edit words they wish to review by holding down on the term for two seconds. You can store terms that are difficult to pronounce and replay the audio tracks until you have mastered them.
•A Play All features allows users to continually play all terms listed in each category, including: the five Premier Crus of Bordeaux, the 13 varietals permissible in Chateauneuf du Pape, the six styles of QmP Riesling, as well as the Study Guide.
•Technical Support is available to offer feedback, request additional terms or functionality and report issues with the app. Direct contact with the developers and designers (easily accessed through an email function on the home screen) allows users to be involved in the expansion of the app and to immediately address any issues that arise.
•Upgrades and Updates will include Google Maps integration to learn the geography of the worlds wine regions, varietal specific photographs for each entry and the expansion of Enotria Guide to include Spain, Austria and other wine producing regions with difficult to pronounce wine terms. Additional terms will be added on a regular basis and a vintage chart is under development to help you understand, pick the best, and avoid the worst, vintages.