About this app
Latinawine is the most comprehensive app on South American wine by independent wine critic Florent Michel. Designed for travelling connoisseurs, wine lovers, or professionals and covering Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.
Florent Michel is a French wine critic based in Uruguay. He dedicates his work to bring independent, objective and expert opinion to wine consumers. Florent Michel has no interest in the wine trade or business in any way.
The app is private and has no advertising from the wine trade to preserve a total independence in wine ratings. All the wines are personally tasted and rated by Florent Michel.
Features
Feed:
A feed is permanently proposing new wines, winery information, jokes, events and other posts to the user.
Geography:
The app covers wines produces in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru and Bolivia and Brazil. This includes 49 key wine regions of South America including the largest ones such as Mendoza, San Juan, Neuquén in Patagonia and Salta for Argentina; Maipo, Aconcagua and Maule for Chile or Canelones for Uruguay.
Wineries:
Full detailed synopsis and description on 300 + wineries across South America including key information, ranking, pictures, and detailed access maps with GPS coordinates.
Tasting Notes:
The user has access to thousands of tasting directly from the feed or by using a comprehensive set of filters. Wines are added on a permanent basis. The user can share tasting notes with friends via mails and all his social networks. Tasting notes all include the picture of the bottle sticker, a technical description of the wine and a complete qualitative tasting note justifying the rating. Key grapes produced in the region are covered including Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon and Tannat. The tasting nota also show the wine price in any currency and at estimated local prices.
Best Buys automatic notification:
At its option the user can choose to be instantly notified of any new Best Buys included in the wine database. He can select the country he wants to receive notifications on.
Food Pairing:
Every detailed tasting note contains food pairing recommendation. What to eat with a good Malbec, Carmenere or Tannat?
My wines, favourites and taste profile:
Manage your favourite wines, rate them, and comment them. As soon as the user enters more than 20 wines he is being recommended wines that correspond to his tasting profile.
Shops and on line shops:
We help the user find where the winery is distributed close to him using geolocalization. The user can easily see on the map a wide range of shops including wine shops and supermarkets. The map also shows shops that are generally cheaper and on-going promotions. Latinawine conducts frequent store checks to provide the most accurate information. Key on-line shops where the winery is distributed are also proposed. Latinawine is and independent wine guide that does not sell wine.
Vintages:
A complete study and rating of vintages per country resulting from the average opinion of key winemakers in each region.
Best Buys and small budget
A simple tool to discover best buys by price range and country. Small budget are a selection of best buy for less than 8 usd.
Top Ten:
Top ten wines per country updated on a permanent basis.
Languages:
Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish
• Title of publication: Latinawine
• Free access: unlimited
• Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: http://latinawine.com/terms-use-conditions/
App Permissions
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
