# Vinous: Wine Reviews & Ratings — user reviews > 75 indexed App Store user reviews of Vinous by Vinous Media LLC Apps, rated 4.30/5 from 353 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinous-wine-reviews-and-ratings/id1010711422/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinous-wine-reviews-and-ratings/id1010711422.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 251 · 4★ 47 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 33 ## What do users think of Vinous? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 📚 Excellent wine review content and expert writers - ✍️ High-quality, insightful articles by knowledgeable critics - 🎯 Comprehensive wine database with extensive coverage - 📊 Useful vintage charts and wine ratings - 🔍 Reliable and consistent reviewer palates - 📱 Easy access to thousands of reviews on mobile - 🏷️ Helpful for wine selection and purchase decisions - 🎨 Clean and intuitive design (when working properly) - 📸 Label scanning feature for quick lookups **Cons** - 🔍 Poor search functionality across the app - 📱 App lacks landscape/iPad optimization - 🐛 Frequent crashes and technical glitches - 🚫 Login and subscription issues - 💰 High subscription cost ($140/year minimum) - 📄 Limited article access without paid subscription - 🧭 Confusing navigation and unclear back buttons - ⚠️ Inconsistent app performance vs. website - 🔐 Forced social media login requirements - 📊 Search only covers reviews, not articles **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes during subscription process - Login failures and persistent logout issues - Search functionality returns no results - Subscription purchase not recognized after payment - App won't launch in landscape mode on iPad - Registration completion fails - App crashes approximately 1 minute after opening - Delectable app integration button non-functional - Multi-part articles redirect to website instead of staying in app - Performance issues in certain regions (UK) - Label scanning fails to identify wines in database **Most requested features** - Advanced search filters (by vintage, region, price, rating type) - Landscape mode and full iPad optimization - Ability to search articles separately from wine reviews - Integration of 'Your Say' community discussion section - Apple ID login option - Free trial period before requiring subscription - Horizontal view support on tablets - Better navigation with clear back buttons - Restaurant articles and curated collections - Updated drinking window information in reviews - Email/password signup without social media requirement ## Newest reviews (10 of 75) ### 3/5 — Great Content, Meh App *2025-01-03* Great content but the app is very meh. The search is very substandard. Should be able to have many many choices. Such as show me the best 2011 Volnays, restaurant articles only (whoops! they aren’t included in the app), only review articles, only the latest ratings, etc. Navigation could be so much better, landscape mode, etc etc etc It’s very 2007 ### 4/5 — Seach *2023-11-30, version 1.3.9* Respect Vinous reviews but its database search is well in need of help. ### 2/5 — Make over *2023-01-15* This app really meads to be updated. One can not look at it in horizontal view. A log of the searches lead to no results, because the search function is just plain bad. This app could be so much more! It has the best wine tasters in the world writing for it, but a terribly bad app. Please fix it. ### 3/5 — Crash *2021-10-30* Crashes when I click the subscribe button ### 3/5 — Search is poor *2020-09-24, version 1.3.5* Despite being a full subscriber when using search on the app it only searches reviews and doesn’t offer searching articles which is a big shame. ### 5/5 — awesome，，，，，，，， *2019-10-21* ，，，，，，，，，，，，，，，，awesome ### 1/5 — Could not register *2019-08-10, version 1.3.4* Could not register. After entering all the required information, I was not able to complete my registration. Will be deleting the app. ### 1/5 — Poor app *2019-08-06* Created an account and the app asked me to pick a subscription and then the app crashed. Now I can’t log in because I don’t have a subscription. Also can’t create an account because I already created an account. Can’t move forward and can’t move back. Glad I did not give them my credit card information. ### 1/5 — Problem with payment *2019-05-16* When I try to pay to subscribe, app is fail ### 3/5 — Could be much better *2019-05-07* Crashes regularly after opening of approx 1 minute. Nearly nonexistent drinking windows referenced in the reviews. Reviews are scanty with data. Reviews are rarely updated. Only buy this if you already have Wine Advocate and Cellar Tracker. This not a primary wine evaluation tool. This app is better than Wine Spectator, however, beneath WA and CT. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not much help *2023-02-16, version 1.3.5* The site is long on wine puff and short of usable wine selection information. The site is not user friendly as to the limited amount wine data. Would not recommend If vinous responds can you recommend a better and more useful site. Thx ### 1/5 — Can’t subscribe *2022-09-05, version 1.3.5* When I try to subscribe the app crashes. ### 1/5 — Glitchy *2021-12-18, version 1.3.5* Terrible app won’t let me sign up just look up the wine this rip off is not worth it. ### 1/5 — Disfunctional *2021-06-18, version 1.3.5* This app would have been primitive 10 years ago. It’s hard to believe that accomplished, respected professionals would put their reputations and their brand on the line with something so poorly designed and built. It’s easy to create a good and even great version of this. Why have they not? ### 1/5 — Terrible *2020-10-29, version 1.3.5* Doesn’t let you sign in, cannot believe it has not been fixed yet. ### 1/5 — Bad app, bad content... *2020-08-25, version 1.3.5* It’s a very disappointing experience to use this application and their website as well, the information is badly organized, it’s really difficult to find what you are looking for. I’ve never seen that bad quality for money in the world of wine critics.... ### 1/5 — App has been broken for a while *2020-07-15, version 1.3.5* Search no longer works. Forcing me to renew, even though my sub has not expired. Just using the website works fine. ### 1/5 — iPad iPad iPad *2020-04-14, version 1.3.5* This app won’t landscape on an iPad. Others have commented about this. You’ve had time. Fix it. ### 1/5 — No content without $$$$ *2020-03-27, version 1.3.5* Just to make it clear, there is almost no content until you register with your email address. Subscriptions START at $140 per year, minimum. There is login with Google and FB but no login with Apple, which is a requirement as of April. Better add it soon or get banned. ### 1/5 — Help *2019-11-06, version 1.3.5* Signed up vis App Store and it won’t allow me to access anything. What is up....... ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A fount of great wine info *2025-03-22* Love this app. Easy to navigate, easy to read. So many terrific articles by knowledgeable people on wine, food, music ! ### 5/5 — Most interesting coverage *2024-12-06* I loved the video interviews during the pandemic and the broad range of coverage without deference to the price of a wine. Having visited I deeply appreciated your selection of La Ca Nova. The wine truly speaks for itself. ### 5/5 — Great content but needs technical improvement *2023-10-18, version 1.3.9* I’m an user of Vinous, Wine Advocate, Jancis Robinson and Cellar Tracker and here is how they compare. Jancis Robinson (JR) has the best search function, best focus on quality value and most poignant reviews. Their articles are also a treat to read. In the better known regions they have a consistent history of scores by JR herself and by Julia Harding. In the satellite regions, there is not much consistency between vintages due to changing critics and their chose winemakers. Everyone scores a little different - JR is predictably strict and Walter Speller gives 17.5 to pretty much every decent wine, while some other authors like my beloved Tamlyn Curryn may get infatuated. That is all correct and truthful, because it shows the fallibility of numerical scores and exposes the wine to the critic’s tastes, as it should be. For that reason, JR is the most honest. The scoring seems to express the potential of the earliest recommended drinking age but definitely not the full potential of the wine. What JR definitely lacks is the side note or addendum to wine notes, that would further reveal the wines character. Wine Advocate has the most prosaic and journalistic style of notes. It also has a lot of consistent history, even in satellite regions. It has a great reach among prestigious wineries and is stylistically quite descriptive in wine notes. With closed wines like young Barolos, the notes are long but say little about the taste and more about production, but that is all understandable. I suppose the scoring tends toward the wine’s full potential, often being 1-2 points higher than JR or Vinous. Vinous, conversely, I find strict and dry. Especially Neal Martin. He uses the low end of the score scale as freely as the high end, offering greater resolution than critics who squeeze most scores into a narrower score band. And yet, he is not that useful for my purposes. His notes are too factual, authoritative and judgemental to reveal the emotional energy of wine that I need to understand before buying. Antonio Galloni is a much more complete critic in this sense, with just as wide a range of scores even if a little more benevolent at times. I wish he scored even truer to his personal bias than by seemingly objective metrics of quality. My favourite Vinous author is Stephen Tanzer. His writing is like a woman’s: insightful in every important way. Vinous, just like Wine Advocate, are extremely useful for their wine note addendums, where the character of the vintage or production methods are explained, and sometimes purchasing tips are revealed. The best resource of them all is CellarTracker. Rarely does it have fewer notes than all of the above combined and it goes well beyond barrel samples and young pre-release bottlings. Yes, it takes much more time to research which user to trust, but then you get a historical line of comparisons across a producer’s range or the region’s best. It’s the best tool for wine discovery and all of my hidden gems come from there. It’s also free. Just don’t look at the score average for a wine because many notes seem inaccurate. I admire all of the above, including the tens of thousands of willing wine reviewers on CellarTracker. There’s a lot to choose from. ### 5/5 — So dependable *2023-06-27, version 1.3.5* I’ve depended on Vinous reviews sin AG started the company and find them consistent and reliable. ### 5/5 — Great data source! *2022-07-11* I can almost always find the wine in question! Great info about the wine and a source for purchase,too! ### 5/5 — goodapp *2021-03-04* goodapp ### 5/5 — Insightful,clear,concise and humorous *2021-02-11, version 1.3.5* I have been selling wine for a wholesaler fit 20 years. I have read Antonio and Neal since their Advocate days.Great in-depth writingAnd so happy to see folks finally take their wine maps seriously! Keep up the great work ### 5/5 — Excellent *2020-05-14, version 1.3.5* Excellent ### 5/5 — Best Site Available *2020-04-29* Absolutely the best wine site available. Galloni is doing everything right...from hiring the best writers to understanding the importance of allocated and DTC and timing his reviews to provide assistance. I trust his palate and value his insights. ### 5/5 — Recovery *2020-03-08, version 1.3.5* After reinstalling the app, everything goes normal. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*