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Wine connoisseurs are in for a treat. The list of top wine apps for Android phones will enable users to check out the best wine and much more.
Swirl Pro is a great Android app that helps you find wine. It not only does that, but it helps you save everything relating to wine in a journal i.e. photos, reviews and everything! You can classify and rate wine in this app and locate good wine and wine stores near you. It is free but the pro version is available at $4.00. Wine + List, Ratings & Cellar is another application, it keeps a tab on your ratings of wine and notes. It is available free but the pro version is available at $3.00. Hello Vino is another wine app, but it is not just any wine app; apart from searching for wine and its stores, it even helps you pick the best wine and helps partnering the right wine with the food. It is free!
Drync Wine Pro (by Drync LLC) is another wine app that helps you find great wine and interact with wine drinking communities. The pro version is available for $4.00. The Wine Dictionary (by GreenLife Apps) is a good app that can help you out with wine jargons (it is free). Next up is Wine and Food Pairing (by Brian Call) which helps you pair food with wine. It is very user friendly; the food choices are categorized. This is also a free app and its ad-free version is available for $1.00 only!

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Wine is of two types: red wine and white wine. It is made from fermented grape juice. There are the top 10 red wine brands given. First up is the French Beaujolais, which is red wine, made from Gamay grapes and is a light bodied wine; it is from the Beaujolais region.
The South African Pinotage is from South Africa and was produced first in 1925. This red wine is available in smoky, earth and bramble flavours. The German Spatburgunder is next and is also known as Pinot noir (a grape wine). This is associated with Burgundy in France.
The Argentinean Malbec is next; this is a violet colored wine made from grapes with thick skins. The Californian Zinfandel is red wine made in the Napa and is very famous. Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon is also red wine which is internationally recognized to be one of the best. The Italian Chianti is red wine made in the area of Chianti, and its characteristic feature is that it is packed in straw baskets. Australian Shiraz is made from Shiraz which is a grape type. The French Bordeaux is made in Bordeaux, France. It has many ranks. Spanish Rioja is red wine that is made in Rioja (an area having 123,000 acres of wine yards).

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Bastille Day is France's national day which is one of the greatest symbolic events of the French Revolution. The revolution also brought in a dropping of the wine prices. Wine, like other products, had been a subject to a series of taxes before the revolution. This led to the multiplying of bars outside the walls as well as a lot of wine smuggling into Paris.
After the revolution, government cut down the complex tax system and also made the wine transport from one part of France to another feasible and easy. This lowered down the prices of wine to a great extent and on May 1, 1791, two million litres of the cheap wine came to Paris, The revolutionaries tried to improve the quality by presenting medals to the grape growers of France. Time to enjoy drinking some good French wine!