First came hotel restaurants and gourmet recipes. Now comes a wine guide for your iPod.
But rather than a text index the Mark Phillips Wine Guide comes in an interactive audio format that contains over one and a half hours of advice aimed at both new and advanced wine lovers. While it includes such practical advice as how to buy and taste wine it also has some offbeat topics like microwaving and freezing wines, how to get wine stains out and why buying wines by the ratings is stupid.
All this is no doubt in keeping with what the guide's producer CyraKnow calls Phillips' progressive approach to talking about wine, which it sums up as "No snobs allowed. The guide is available for a relatively unsnobbish $34.95.
