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- Boiled Aphids
- Anyone for Home Secretary?
- Prehistoric Vienetta
- Frozen Dog Turd
- A Lung Full of Air
- The Big Bitter
- Meatball Marinara
- Back to the 1980s
- The Case of the Mystery Bottle
- Bubblegum
- Quantitative Beesing
- Hula Heat
- Pipe and Sippers
- Sugar Rush
- 'loadsamoney'
Links to Other Blogs/Sites
- Jack Keller's Wine Blog
- Wine Wire
- Sour Grapes
- Vinography
- Jamie Goode's Wine Blog
- The Pour
- Spittoon
- Basic Juice
- Fermentation
- Winehiker Witiculture
- Wein-Plus
- 365corks.com
- Complete Wine Course
- morethanorganic.com
- Vivi's Wine Journal
- Nat Decants Free E-Newsletter
- London Restaurants - Square Meal
- Lloyd Morgan
- Classic Wines
- Guardian food blog
- allaboutyou.com
- Little House Wine
- The Italian Wine Blog - Wine 90
- Berrys' Wine Blog
- redwine.co.uk
- Martin's in La La Land
- These Glory Days
- Wine Wire
- Cambridge Guide
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My phone is on it last legs. It only vibrates now, too lethargic and cynical to ring. It has seen the rise of the iPhone and has just given up I think, slowly developing an inferiority complex. This means I am going to have to probably bite a chunk out of the Apple, and spend all my hard earned cash on an iPhone contract. Then I can be on the Internet wherever I am, sending tweets with one of the iPhone's rich application set.....that is until the battery gives out. I am told the Swiss Army Knife of phones is demanding on juice.... Like running a tank in the desert on tracks made of ice. My current phone will be smugly awaiting for me to discover this, and knows I will probably be back. In truth, I just like the look and feel of the iPhone. The rest is irrelevant (sort of). There are some wine apps for the iPhone which interest me. These are designed to help you source and choose wines.....sounds good doesn't it? I will let you know when I finally take the plunge. Snooth have just released on of these apps which I aim to road test. There are mixed reviews of some wine apps out there, and ultimately I get the impression that one app will not really be a good replacement for asking a member of staff in a good wine shop, but a complementary tool all the same. Do not vacuum out your brains just yet and plug the iPhone into the void. The choice of wine is ever more bewildering, probably not enough time on the iPhone's fragile life cycle to cope with the possibilities. I am sure that by the time I had typed in 'Gewurztraminer' to the slightly awkward touch screen keyboard (clearly engineered for The Borrowers' tiny hands) it would be too late and way too frustrating. Combine that with the inevitable half full mobile broadband Britain and you have a nightmare. My method is more to avoid wines I have bought, drunk and hated. The 'horse has already bolted' approach. You can only really know what you like by trying the stuff. After all.... 'One man's meat is another man's poison' Have your say |