Vinoperte is an AI-powered wine recommendation app that lets users photograph an entire restaurant or wine bar menu and receive ranked suggestions based on their personal taste profile, not crowd ratings. The free app works in 40+ countries Trick and reads wine names in multiple languages, with a taste profile built from plain-language questions rather than grape varietals. It is available on iOS and Android.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Choosing wine from a restaurant or wine bar menu is often overwhelming, especially for people who lack deep wine knowledge. Existing wine apps require scanning individual bottle labels and rely on crowd ratings, which do not address the dining-out moment where users need immediate, personalized guidance across an entire menu.
Solution
Vinoperte provides an AI-powered mobile app that lets users photograph any wine list and instantly ranks every option by how well it matches their personal taste profile. The taste profile is built from five simple, plain-language questions about wine style preferences, such as light or bold and crisp or smooth, avoiding jargon like grape varietals. The app's cloud-based AI reads wine names across dozens of languages and delivers ranked recommendations tailored to individual tastes rather than aggregate crowd scores. Users can save favorites and view their profile offline, while all photo scans are processed securely through the backend.
Target Audience
Primary users are casual wine drinkers and restaurant-goers who feel intimidated by wine lists and want immediate, personalized recommendations while dining out, visiting wine bars, or shopping for wine.
Features
- AI-driven menu scanning that reads and ranks every wine on a photographed list at once
- Personalized taste profile created in about 60 seconds using plain-language questions instead of wine expertise
- Multilingual wine-name recognition for Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and other languages
- Privacy-first architecture storing taste profiles and saved wines locally on the device by default
- Free core experience available on iOS and Android with an optional subscription for power users