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Snooth Wine App, The Label Tells All

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A friend comes over and brings with him a bottle of wine, you've never seen this bottle before and are curious. If you've got your iPhone handy, in seconds you can snap a picture of the bottle and the new app from Snooth.com can tell you all about the wine. The new iPhone app, Snooth Wine Pro uses image recognition technology to help recognize any bottle of wine. Take a picture of a wine label, find the wine, and view maps, directions, and inventory of the stores closest to you, check out reviews and add the wine to your Wishlist or Virtual Cellar or purchase the wine online through the Snooth retail network.

"Snooth Wine Pro is the ultimate mobile tool for finding wine," said Philip James, CEO/Co-founder of Snooth.com. "It can be difficult to remember an exact vintage and year, now just take a picture and let Snooth Wine Pro do the rest."

Snooth Wine Pro is available in the iTunes App Store for $4.99. Users can also install Snooth Wine, a free, ad-supported version.

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Gunter Grass Designs Wine Label

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Chateau Mouton Rothschild isn't the only wine label that commissions famous people to design its labels. Italy's Fattoria Nittardi has commissioned artists to design the labels of its Casanuova di Nittardi, a top Chianti Classico since 1981. This year's artist is Nobel-prize-winning author Gunter Grass. The 83-year-old author of the Tin Drum is also a sculptor and painter. Decanter reports that his design includes a snail on a cluster of grapes for the label of te 2008 vintage of Casanuova di Nittardi, which goes on sale in November. Grass wrote a book in 1972, Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke, which translates to From the Diary of a Snail.

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European Union Extends U.S. Wine Restrictions

by Laura Malesich (RSS feed) —

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After twenty years of grappling over the trade agreement between winemakers in Europe and the U.S., 2005 marked the beginning of a somewhat peaceful understanding between the two markets -- with a few conditions. At that time the words 'Champagne', 'Burgundy', 'Port' and 'Sherry' were no longer allowed to be used in America. Just this past month the EU added another restriction to American winemakers' verbage. Wines bearing these words on their labels will no longer be sold in Europe:

'chateau', 'classic', 'clos', 'cream', 'crusted/crusting', 'fine', 'late bottled vintage', 'noble', 'ruby', 'superior', 'sur lie', 'tawny', 'vintage' or 'vintage character.'

Bureaucracy at its finest. I certainly understand protecting rights to regions but not simple words with more than a location's name at heart.

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The Note Wine Label Saver

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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It can be hard to find the right wine to give your favorite wine lover so how about a gift that helps them enjoy their hobby. Hinckley Cellars has created The Note Wine Label Saver. The tool peels wine labels from bottles so they can be saved in an accompanying leather journal. The Note Wine Label Saver is made of stainless steel with a leather blade cover and it comes in a wooden keepsake box. It can be purchased on its own for $64 or with an Italian leather wine journal for $98. Check out how it works in the video below.