Price: $5.99    Score: 9/10    By Michael Essany

If you’ve ever found yourself planning a dinner party or at a restaurant wondering if your meal is nicely complemented by a particular selection of wine, you’re in luck.

The De Voorkant B.V. corporation has developed Winestein, an impressive and comprehensive iPhone application that interfaces with the online sommelier of WineWineWine.

Serving as your own personal wine and food pairing adviser, the database powering the app contains most wines worldwide – one logical explanation for why Winestein is already an international success, placing no. 3, for example, in the lifestyle section of the Dutch App Store.

Whether you collect fine wines or merely drink them when available, it is always important to know how to select the best wine possible for any meal. In this regard, Winestein is an absolute gem of an app that simplifies what can prove a surprisingly complex challenge.

Other features of the $5.99 iPhone application include:

• Plan a meal,complete with the “perfect wine” by selecting a main ingredient, side dishes, sauces, etc.
• Generate a unique “meal DNA” to leave you with the best wine selections possible.
• For each suggested wine a meal matching score and a full wine description is returned.
• Personalize the wine result list by filtering the wine’s color or its price range.

Wherever you are in the world, Winestein, which is simple and easy to use but requires an internet connection – connects you to a burgeoning database of wines that is consistently updated and revised faster than your own knowledge of fine wines could ever possibly grow.

Both practical, efficient, and just plain cool, wine drinkers can confidently raise their glass in a well-deserved toast to Winestein.

Winestein requires the iPhone OS 3.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch.