Wine and Relationships: Here’s a light-hearted look at matching wine with relationships. Food and wine pairing is simple by comparison. From announcing a surprise relationship to your family to breaking up with kindness, you’ll find wine suggestions below. Listen
Social Media and Wine
Wine and Relationships II
Wine and Relationships II: Natalie chats with Amy Tobin, host of Amy’s Table, about more ways to pair wine with any stage of a relationship. Listen
Food and wine sites worth visiting
My thanks to following food and wine web sites and blogs that have recently posted the free Drinks Matcher on their sites to keep their visitors coming back for more pairings. Please let me know if you post the Drinks Matcher on your site so I can include you in a future blog post with a link to your site. These sites are well worth visiting, with their wealth of tips, articles and recipes: Everyday Sommelier www.everydaysommelier.ca Wine Love Lust winelovewinelust.com/2011/01/14/natalie-mcleans-food-and-wine-matcher Culinary Thymes www.culinarythymes.com/blog/natalie-macleans-wine-food-matcher Fireside Winery www.firesidewinery.com/products.html Kinkead Ridge Winery www.KinkeadRidge.com/htm/whats_new.htm Saveur Faire www.saveurfaire.net Nickle City Foodie www.nickelcityfoodie.com
Pair Wines with the People on Your Holiday Gift List
Wine is one of the few presents that makes both the giver and the receiver look good. You look like you spent a bundle on the gift (even if you didn’t) and the recipients are happy that you think they know something about wine (even if they don’t). This holiday season, anyone can tap into my free web site and mobile apps for iPhone, BlackBerry, Droid and other smartphones. They help consumers with a whole new type of pairing: wine with the people on your Christmas shopping list. The app and site also pair wines to thousands of dishes, including […]
Free BlackBerry Wine App: New Storm 2 and 9500 Series Approved
We recently got approval for the Storm 2 and 9500 series free wine mobile app for BlackBerry! The app also works on all other BlackBerry devices and operating systems. If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch user, we’ve got an app for you too and we’re currently working on a Droid version. All other smartphone can use the mobile site, which has been customized for their phones. We’re on an aggressive development path with the apps: lots more feature over the next few months. Stay tuned! Cheers, Natalie
Apple approved new iPhone app, yay!
Just got approval for a seriously big update of the free wine mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/nat-decants/id353052386?mt=8 I hope you’ll download it and give it a whirl. As always, if you have suggestions for further improvements or new features, please just e-mail me directly. I look forward to hearing what you think of it! Cheers, Natalie What’s new in version 1.2? – Improved performance, navigation and loads more free content – Added new section to Pairings for Occasions: find wines for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and other events – Added new sections under More for weird Wine Facts, […]
Yahoo News: New 10-in-1 Wine Mobile App
Yahoo News June 23, 2010 – The free Nat Decants iPhone and BlackBerry app has dished up more than 7.2 million mouth-watering wine reviews, pairings and recipes since its launch in February. Nat Decants now bundles a suite of 10 wine apps rolled into one, including a cellar journal, articles, blog posts, glossary, newsletter, pairings, wine reviews, recipes, book excerpt and world winery directory. “This new app gives wine lovers a complete dinner solution at their fingertips,” says Natalie MacLean, editor of one of the largest wine sites at on the web at NatalieMacLean.com. “Start with a pairing, get a […]
Globe & Mail says this wine app is the “clear winner”
We were thrilled to read the Globe & Mail’s analysis of wine apps in today’s paper! With thousands of apps to choose from, and new ones added daily, it’s incredible to just be reviewed these days let alone be picked as the clear winner. Our team intends to keep improving the app and adding new features based on our customers’ feedback. In a sense, this is already a crowd-sourced app with so many great ideas from wine and food lovers built into it based on their suggestions. We’ll be making some exciting announcements in the next few weeks, so […]
Top Wine Retweeters on Twitter
A few months ago, a wine friend sent me a list the top wine lovers on Twitter whose tweets get reteweeted most often: which tweets do wine lovers find most interesting or valuable, and forward to others, answering that eternal question: Is anyone out there listening or am I just twittering to myself? It’s a fascinating way to look at how the worlds of wine and social media are coming together. I think that Twitter in particular suits wine lovers who can dash off a quick note about a wine they’ve just discovered or they can ask others which wine to […]
Google & Wine: Great Pairing!
My team and I are thrilled that our site has hit #1 on Google for the most popular wine-related search terms: – wine and food – wine newsletter – wine and food matching – wine with food These search term rankings are driven by traffic. You can’t buy this traffic, you can only build it … in a sense these are click-through votes from wine lovers who visit the site. On these key search terms, these sites all ranked highly in the #2 or #3 spots: – Food Network – Globe & Mail – Montreal Gazette […]
