Wine Scanner & Expert Reviews App Reviews

Tons of free reviews from a well respected wine taster with a talent for pairing wines and food. As such, its most powerful and best feature is that you can start by selecting either a favorite food and let Natalie suggest a varietal that pairs well, or start with a wine and let her suggest foods or cheeses that pair well. Even better, once you select a varietal, it leads you to specific wines with Natalies reviews. The app even includes wine friendly recipes. The application is web-based, thus the app stays fresh and current, as it integrates into her website. This eliminates having to download large updates from time-to-time. The app easily pulls current reviews, recent newsletters, etc. Great app for anyone who is interested in pairing suggestions.

Love this app! The pairings ability is terrific! I also like being able to save my favorites so now I can throw all those corks away!

Nat Decants is more than an encyclopedia of wine, it is a sherpa that guides through the maze of wine facts, opinions, pairings and prices. And in typical MacLean style, it is clear, precise and infinitely useful for any wine lover, from novice to expert.

I recently downloaded this app to my iPhone and am a big fan! I am always trying out new recipes and this is my "go-to" app for finding wine pairings and reviews. Having been a fan of Natalie MacLeans book, website and food/wine columns, it is great to have her wealth of knowledge at my fingertips!

Finally the food and wine pairing app we have all been waiting for. Loaded with almost 400,000 food and drink pairings, if its ever been paired, you will find it here. The best wine app out there!!! Bravo Natalie!

Great app, its fast, easy, relevant, usefull, informative, and free. Whats not like?

I am impressed. This app is loaded with features. You really cant go wrong.

This app is great for those of us that appreciate a good wine but need a little assiatance pairing the right one with our meals. The fact that it covers everything from Hamburgers to Chicken Marsala makes it useable for all walks of life. Getting reviews from more midwest US mom and pop wineries would be the only thing that would make it even better. Thank you for the wonderful tool.

It has some interesting wine quotes but the reviews are not extensive. Not what I expected.

Overall disappointing. Was trying to find wines that paired with fruit or fruit salad and the only choices are pomegranate and raisin dishes.. What?! The glossary which claims it will tell you why wines pair well with something only offers a sentence or two about the wine that is so basic and uninformative it is nearly useless. Two stars but only b/c it has some pairings.

I just downloaded and installed this new version on my iPod Touch and iPad. I continue to love this wine and food app. Natalie provides such comprehensive information with regard to pairings, reviews, recipes, etc., and I can share what I find via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. This new version is even more comprehensive, very streamlined, and also very quick. Its also visually appealing. The performance is amazing. Thank you, Natalie, for continuing to provide such a wonderful app to wine enthusiasts like me.

I have a number of wine apps on my iPhone and one or two that I seem to use often. One of them is Natalie MacLeans. My wife is very good at food and wine pairings but I am not. And because Im in the wine business, everyone expects me to be this authority figure on all things food and wine. The truth about food and wine pairings for me is that I have no real expertise beyond enjoying well matched cuisine and wine. All I do is quietly refer to Nat Decants and then speak up like the bona fide expert Im supposed to be. Im not sure if anyone is wondering exactly how I manage to come up with some suitable suggestion right after glancing at my phone but thats for another day. Her new app is smart with some great development behind it. I like what natalie MacLean does in the wine world, a lot! Galen Struwe Sacre Bleu Wine

Natalie MacLean has composed an app that is everything an oenophile could need. Pairing suggestions for virtually anything, a cellar tracking section, access to her thoughtful wine reviews...you name it, its all included in this app - for FREE! This is a great resource for wine beginners and wine geeks alike.

I entered 3 bar codes and got a "No data available. Enter another bar code" msg. (note: exact wording may have been different, but the message was clear.) My problem is the 3 wines I entered are NOT esoteric or rare wines: Beringer Knights Valley cabernet, Oyster Bay sauvignon blanc, and. You get the point. These were test bottles from my "table wine" rack. Perhaps the particlar vintages are no longer in shops (test bottles were purchased 6 months ago.) whatever, I expected one of these would have been reviewed. Oh well. Thankfully the app is free. So no real loss, just a bit of a disappointment.

Seems pretty good.

I also entered 3 wine barcodes and got a message saying not found and enter another code. The developers need to enhance their database or use an internet look up like the music apps.

Tried out this app and couldnt get the bar code scan to hardly any wines and tok several tries before it actually saved one. Needs upgrades before this is useful.

I like the guide this app provides. Not only can you look up a wine by barcode to see if it has been reviewed but it also gives specific food pairings. However the personal cellar feature appears to have a bug that crashes the app when you save a wine that is not in the database.

Great app! I cant believe its free! I had already used it a few times and I know I will use it many more times. Easy to use too.

Tried 3 bottles of red wine it found one and had no real information!