Hello Vino is a free wine pairing and suggestion tool app for mobile device users. This app offers beginner wine consumer recommendations on Meal/Food, Occasions, Taste/Style, Country/Region and Holidays. In addition, it will suggest which food is best for the kind of wine that you will be drinking or planning to have. I do not know how they come up with recommendations, but I’m guessing it’s based on surveys. If your mobile device can not download the app, you can always access their service by either text the word “hellovino” …

It’s a beautifully designed app with an easy navigation interface.  However, it requires internet because it needs to load the database of all the cocktail recipes and social media sharing features. This app comes very handy when you are in need of a cocktail recipe because they are at your finger tip and it saves you a lot of time going through books or internet to find good cocktail recipes for special events.  Also, it will improve and expand your skill at mixing drinks with the help of all the …

Recently Starbucks introduced an instant coffee product that will provide more ways for customers to enjoy their coffee. So I went to a nearby Starbucks store to get some of the VIA Ready Brew Instant Coffee samples and they were giving out ready brew Colombia Coffee and ready brew Italian Roast coffee. I think the idea of instant coffee is pretty good, but is it really going to help the company to earn more money by providing more opportunities for customers to enjoy their rich and smooth coffee?

Anyway, I tried …

The weather is getting cooler and Students are back to school. The fall has arrived and so are the seasonal flavor drinks from Starbucks. One of the signature drinks from Starbucks that caught my eyes was the Pumpkin Spice Latte. I never had it before and I’m very curious about how the taste would be when pumpkin mixing with the coffee. So, I figured I’d give it a try.
I’m a big fan of hot drinks. So I ordered a grande Hot Pumpkin Spice Latte with no Whipped Cream. When you …

The weather is cooling down and it’s perfect time for a warm and comforting hot chocolate drink. Usually, I drink Starbucks Tall Hot Chocolate because it tastes really delicious. The other day, I want to try hot chocolate from another store. After few minutes of battling in the head to decide which one to, I ended up choosing  McDonald McCafe Hot chocolate because people said they tastes really good and I ordered a small size one.  It turns out that the drink tasted a bit different than Starbucks hot chocolate. …

There are many drinking recipe apps available in App store, but only few of them are actually consider useful. Mixology is  one of those apps that actually brings value for people and it’s developed by www.digitaloutcrop.com. The app is for both iPhone and iPod Touch.  It provides a database of all kinds of drink recipes for every event.  According to their website, the app contains 7,900 or more drink recipes and more than 1,300 ingredients. you can use it at your finger tip and you do not need to think …

I went to a Starbucks store last weekend and I noticed that they change their menu board again. It seems true for all other Starbucks stores around where I live. Each store has its own unique menu board design with many different drinks to choose from. Well, I ordered a Grande Iced White Chocolate Mocha with whipped cream under their signature drinks rather than the usual Tall Hot Chocolate or Tall Hot Green Tea that I always order.  It was my first time that I ordered a coffee drink from …