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Thanks for an interesting and thorough overview. I just wanted to mention that I've made a wine organizer for OSX. It's available for download from http://eventless.net, and it's completely free.
Might be interesting for those who'd rather use their macs for keeping track of their wines.

Ben, thank you for the detailed evaluation and great review. We (Drync) are very excited about the app and doing everything we can to make it useful.
To comment on your two "quibbles":
- Creating a new Cellar entry from your Cellar - it's in the next release
- Primitive Search - our Search is going to change in a big way in the next few days. Stay tuned
Again, many thanks for the writeup.

am I the only person who came to this article expecting to read about a port of the WINE project for jailbroken iphones?

Very nice roundup of wine iPhone apps. Allow me to add one more to the list:
www.HelloVino.com was featured as a "Staff Pick" on Apple.com for the week of Feb 23. The iPhone/iPod web app will provide food and wine pairing suggestions, as well as ideas for wine gifts.
Thanks!

The article seems to indicate that Drync Wine offers ratings of wines, but does not address the CAPITAL question: who rates the wines?
I have followed wine ratings by magazines for many years. For example, I find those by Wine Enthusiast to be unreliable and in general inflated. IMHO (but shared by many), the most accurate ratings are from Wine Spectator, followed by Wine Advocate and one or two others.

Thanks for this very useful comparative review. I wish more journalists did this kind of thorough look at an app arena.

Great reviews! All of these wine apps are great (of course I like the one I worked). I like to see this treatment of iPhone apps around a certain topic, especially since the number of apps in the store keeps growing. It is getting hard to keep track of the new ones coming out that I want to try.

Don't forget about Corkz Wine Info (http://cor.kz)... It's a mobile front-end to CellarTracker and it's 700,000 unique wines and close to 1 million community generated ratings and reviews.
You can search the world of wines, see your CellarTracker inventory in Corkz and even add or drink (remove) bottles from your inventory in real time. There's also a "pedia" of varietals and terms, integration with Twitter and much, much more coming....
Corkz (http://cor.kz) integration with CellarTracker means your data will always be in sync, whether on a handheld device or the CellarTracker website.

Can't believe you missed Wine Journal. This app is great keeping track of your wines. It has separate lists for your cellar and wines you're considering to add to your cellar. The interface is simple and straightforward and lets you do your own ratings, tasting notes, photos, etc. I've tried most of the apps and this one meets my needs the most.

http://www.shinesbri...ne_Journal.html