Wine Spectator App Now on iPhone and iPod

Finally! Wine Spectator has just released their WineRatings+ app for all of us who cannot live without our iPhones and iPods. 

The new app offers both a mixture of free and premium (yes you pay) but it's worth it content.

For you see, Spectator's helpful new app includes over 270,000 insightful reviews with famed ratings and expert tasting notes, supportive articles and videos as well as detailed vintage charts that all in all cover 55 of the world's leading wine regions and grape varieties. 

Such an array of information should definitely improve wine selection and encourage new discoveries for everyone from guests to sommelier. 

You can also easily mark your favorite wines and then share the info with your family and friends. Not a bad bargain for $2.99 USD.

Your Culinary World copyright Ana Kinkaid/Peter Schlagel 2012 

A New Wine Movie to Premiere at 2012 Napa Valley Film Festival

On November 7, 2012 the Napa Valley Film Festival will launch its second year as a must-attend event. That gotta-be-there feeling is especially true this year as the Festival will be screening a new wine film, SOMM. 

SOMM (slang for “sommelier”) follows four very talented young sommeliers as they get ready for the grueling, notoriously difficult Master Sommelier exam. 

The exam, which only 200 people in the world have ever passed, requires a stunning knowledge of everything to do with the pairing of wine and food on a global level.

The film is well worth seeing for it serve as a reminder that the life we desire always takes dedication and courage to achieve. In short, never drink alone or in ignorance!

Your Culinary World copyright Ana Kinkaid/Peter Schlagel 2012