Pair It! - Food and Wine Guide
By Pair It! LLC
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Description
Featured by Apple for "Apps for Going Out"
"5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers....This app knows wine."
- Mashable
“Offers more context around suggestions.”
- Bob Tedeschi, New York Times
CHANGING HOW YOU PAIR WINE
Pair It! is a FRESH new way to match food with wine, and vice versa. Simply search Pair It! by wine, food, or ingredient for expert pairing suggestions you'll find nowhere else.
Can't decide what to have? Shake or "Swirl" your iPhone for a different pairing every time.
Pair It! has over 20,000 unique and easy-to-follow pairing suggestions, recipes, and tips. The app was created by renowned wine pairing expert, chef and educator Bruce Riezenman from the Sonoma County Wine Country.
FEATURES
+ Expert and experienced pairing advice, suggestions and tricks of the trade
+ Wine library with 180+ varietals from around the world
+ Food library with 1000+ dishes, for every course in a meal
+ Hand selected wine pairings for each dish
+ Recipes for your favorite pairings
+ Regular updates of new wines, dishes, and pairing suggestions
+ Featured pairing picks
+ “QuickPair” recommendations for matching basic food dishes and ingredients
HOW WE'RE DIFFERENT
+ A comprehensive meal and wine planner
+ Searchable food and wine database
+ Ability to add personalized notes for every wine, dish and pairing
+ Save your favorite pairings
+ “Swirl” (or shake) device to select a random meal or wine pairing suggestion
+ Easy to use iPhone interface
+ Data stored locally on your device – free of internet connections
+ Detailed wine descriptions, pairing tips, country of origin and flavor bridges
· Pronunciations for every wine varietal
HOW IT WORKS
Each pairing is individually selected based on the following criteria:
+ Relative weights: Ensuring that neither the food nor the wine overpowers the other.
+ Flavor bridges: Choosing flavors in your food that complement or mirror those present in the wine.
+ Elements of Taste: Matching the food and its accompaniments with the wines that will best enhance their tastes.
EAT WELL!
What's New in Version 1.1
New recipe search feature, plus enhanced food tab.
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Customer Reviews
Robust and Thoughtful
This app is encyclopedic in the information it offers, sometimes overwhelmingly so - the only reason I didn't give it five stars is because the sheer number of pairing suggestions per food item can make it hard to make a decision. That said, most of the suggestions, no matter how many there are, make sense.
My favorite parts of this app are the "Swirl" function, which gives a random pairing suggestion - it's fun and educational - and the chef's pairing suggestions, which are more specific.
One of the best wine apps I've found in the App Store. Highly recommended.
Recipes?
So far I'm 0/6 on recipes when I click the "Find Recipes" tab. Tried fish, beef, chicken, salads and many more with not a single "recipe" found. Otherwise a decent app when it comes to understanding pairings. It would be nice I can get a recipe out of the pairings.
Where are the recipes?
There are titles or suggestions of recipes, but very little recipes themselves. The suggestions are also too gourmet - example wild boar showed up several times in suggestions.
I've been searching for Chicken with Wild Mushrooms cooked with Pinot Noir with no luck when I look. What good is listing recipe suggestions if the are not easily found? The app developers need to take a look at Steve Job's thinking - make it simple!!
Please keep swirl result so it shows up when you leave and then return to swirl page. I don't want to have to go through all the swirling again to get to where I left off.
A list of all possible swirl results would also be nice if one didn't want to swirl.
- $4.99
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: May 13, 2010
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 1.8 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Bandar Interactive
- © 2010 Pair It! LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
