# When Wine Tastes Best

> Food & Drink

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id557902225](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id557902225)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id557902225`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Floris Books
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 3.20 / 5 (31 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.9
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
- **First published:** 2013-03-08
- **Size:** 28 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/when-wine-tastes-best/id557902225)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.florisbooks.co.uk/privacy/](https://www.florisbooks.co.uk/privacy/)

## Description

A biodynamic calendar for wine drinkers

• Get the best from your bottle of wine: the best days to open your good wine revealed
• Top UK grocery chains use this calendar to choose their critics wine tastings days
• Customise for any global time zone, and choose 12-hour or 24-hour time
• Based on 50 years of research by biodynamic expert Maria Thun, discover which days are good (fruit and flower days), and which are less good (root and leaf days), as well as Maria Thun’s unique ‘generally unfavourable’ days (not included in other lunar calendars). This free version is for the current day and days past. For future days, purchase the annual data (in-app purchase).

## Rankings

- #240,897 — Overall

## Review summary

Users broadly praise the app for accurate, biodynamic-based guidance on wine-tasting days and for bringing a calendar approach to understanding how flavors change. Many rely on it daily and some feel upgrading is worth it, especially for planning tastings and learning about the lunar cycle’s influence. However, recurring issues with in-app purchases and billing, persistent calendar accuracy bugs, and a paywall with limited data and older UI significantly hamper experience. Support accessibility also appears lacking. Fixing billing, calendar accuracy, and UI would greatly improve its usefulness for wine enthusiasts.

### Pros

- Accurate guidance on the best wine-tasting days using a biodynamic calendar.
- Biodynamic calendar helps explain why a wine can taste different from day to day.
- Useful for daily use and many users consider upgrading worth it.
- Helpful for planning tastings and replacing a paper calendar with a convenient calendar tool.

### Cons

- In-app purchase and billing issues, with repeated prompts to buy again and failed upgrades.
- Calendar accuracy bugs, including incorrect day types and time-zone mislabeling.
- Paywall with limited data and an outdated, clunky UI.
- Limited or unclear developer support for fixing issues.

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