One app that answers the only question that matters on a Thursday night: what should I open? It learns from every bottle you rate — you never fill in a form.
No feature grid, no settings maze. Each destination answers one question in plain language — and the sommelier is never more than one tap away from any of them.
Three wines chosen for you, what is peaking in your cellar, and the one thing worth knowing about your own taste this week.
By mood, occasion, food or place. Regions come with the story, the growers and the wines actually available now.
Type, speak or point the camera. It remembers the conversation, so “is there something cheaper?” needs no explaining.
Bottles, racks and drinking windows — including the imports and gifts that no catalogue has ever heard of.
A living taste fingerprint and your wine passport.
In a shop, at a friend’s table, anywhere. The label comes back with the taste, the drinking window and whether it is your kind of thing.
Photograph the page. Every wine on it is ranked for your palate, by the glass and by the bottle — then tell it what you are eating and it narrows to one.
Twenty labels, no time. It finds the ones worth your money and says why — including the cheaper one you would not have picked up.
Scanning recognises New Zealand wines published on AIWine — that is the honest limit. Anything else, including imports and old vintages, you add to your cellar by hand in about fifteen seconds, and it behaves exactly like a library wine from then on.
This is not a mock-up. Your three answers run through the same matching the app uses, against the same published wines a member sees — and the number you get back is the number they would get.
In the app the sketch keeps sharpening: every tasting, scan and purchase nudges the profile, and the matches move with it.
Most cellar apps ask you to be a librarian. This one earns its keep: it watches the windows, notices the last bottle, and answers the only question that matters on a Thursday night.
Every bottle carries a window. You get told when one opens — not a notification begging you to come back.
Scan the New Zealand wines, hand-enter the rest. Imports and gifts get a match score, a window and pairings all the same.
Loved it, enjoyed it, it was OK, not for me. That single tap is what moves your profile — everything else is optional.
Straight from the winery, with its own delivery rules shown before you commit.
Your cellar, taste profile and AI sommelier are free — and they stay free. You only pay for the wine you choose to buy.
Everything above is built and being tested on real phones. We are holding the app back until it is right rather than putting it out and hoping. Leave your email and you will hear from us the day it opens — first, and once.
In the meantime the whole catalogue, the sommelier and your cellar all work here on the website, on a phone as well as a laptop.
AIWine Companion