Sipp - An iPhone app for wine lovers

Rate and share the wines you are drinking with your friends and the Sipp Community!

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We'll show you ours if you show us yours — what's your go-to cheap wine?

The other day, we gave you tips for getting good, cheap wine. (Did you do that 10 people party yet?!) So, this time, we thought we'd tell you what our go-to, can't-go-wrong, perfect-for-a-party wine is!

Drum roll, please... It's Cono Sur's Organic Organic Cabernet Sauvignon / Carmenere! Not only is it organic, it has a deep, rich and satisfying flavor that only comes from great Chilean wines. It also looks super chic because it has this wax seal on the top, which makes you look rather classy when you bring it to a party. Little do they know it's only about $10 USD. To drink it is to love it. Trust us, you won't go wrong with this.

If that doesn't suit your fancy, check out this great list of 20 good value wines under $10 USD.

So, what's your cheap go-to wine? Share it with us!

Cheers!

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Drink cheap and live rich - how to pick great cheap wines

A while back, we showed you how to know what you're getting when you go looking for a bottle of wine. Knowledge is power, so we want to make sure you use it wisely and get the best for the least — cheap but great wine.

The kind people at About.com have made a handy list of best tips for getting good, cheap wine. It has tips like look for wine from lesser-known regions or try a wine variety that you usually don't.

My favorite suggestion is to have a party with 10 friends who each get a bottle under a certain amount — you're bound to find a great wine in the batch! Brilliant!

What's your way to make sure you get a good wine for cheap? We'd love to know!

Cheers!

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Wait! That's the wrong glass!

You're not likely to hear that when you're pouring a glass of wine, but of course, no one wants to make a wine faux pas at a fancy dinner party. Don't worry! We're here to help!

This great infographic from Wine Folly shows you all the types of glasses and color coding for the types of wines. Brilliant.

It also helps you with shopping for wine glasses, showing you the two types of wine glasses you really need.

We love learning about wine, so for our benefit and yours, we'll be sharing some tips and stories here from time to time. Why not give us a follow?

Wine is a beautiful thing that the more you know, the more nicer it gets.

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You can't judge a wine by it's label... well, not if you don't know what you're doing!

Ever walk into a shop looking for a glass of wine and have no idea which one you should get? Yup, been there.

Picking wine by how pretty the label is can result in good results, but there’s a better way. One of our favorite sites, Wine Folly makes a great infographic that gives you the scoop on all the wines there are to want.

It shows you everything you need to know: colors, temperature, labels and tasting. Want to know what goes well with whatever? It’s here.

Like any great infographic, it tells you what you need to know and looks beautiful doing it. And you can get this one as a poster, too.

Enjoying wine is fun, but it can feel as though there is so much to know. The great thing is that once you get your foot in the door, a whole world opens up to you!

We're not all wine experts, and you certainly don't need to be one to love wine. Give us a follow and learn along with us.

Cheers!

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Become a Recommended User!

Many of our users will have noticed our Recommended User list. 

This list gets curated every month using the top five contributors on Sipp, which helps make it easier to build out your community and discover new people & great wines.

The list is updated ever month so get posting, leave comments and/or start liking, and next month you might be in the top 5!

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Sipp requires a Facebook account?

EDIT: In v1.1 of Sipp we introduced an option that allows users to create an account using and email/password combination, so a Facebook account is no longer required.  

We have had quite a few people ask us why the app requires a Facebook account to sign up.

The answer is rather simple.  We wanted to protect the app from malicious content, and being that we are a very small team of 2 (one designer, one developer) we would have a very hard time watching over the app and kicking out knuckle heads.  So for the first launch we decided to wrap the app in a Facebook login to somewhat protect the app and keep real users posting real content and not garbage to only spam, destroy, and ruin everyone’s experience.  Our next update will have the ability to sign up with email.  But we just needed a little Kickstart from Facebook.  We hope you understand and thank you a ton for your interest in our wine app!

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We are now available in the Apple App Store!

 It all started 20 months ago between one developer and one designer, to create a super simple iPhone app that enabled users to rate and share wines they are drinking with their friends. Well, after a ton of designing, developing, discussing, drinking lots of wines, and life in general... we are pleased to announce Sipp, the iphone App for wine lovers is now available for download from the Apple App Store!  

We have lots in the pipeline for updates (Activity Streams, Search by Barcode, adding to collections), but we figured it was good to start with a simple idea and expand from there.  Go get Sipp now and share with us what you are drinking!