What to expect from Winebutler.
What you can ask, where the wine knowledge comes from and how individual and commercial use differ.
What is Winebutler?
Winebutler makes professional wine knowledge accessible through conversation. Ask about wine in your own words and receive guidance shaped by your question, drawing on a knowledge base containing more than 100,000 professional tasting notes.
What can I ask?
Ask about taste, ratings, vintages, maturity, drinking windows, decanting, grape varieties, comparisons, food or occasions.
Is Winebutler free?
Yes. Individual users can explore Winebutler free of charge in their browser, whether privately or as part of their own work. Business use that produces wine descriptions for a company’s catalogue is arranged separately.
Where does the wine knowledge come from?
The knowledge base contains more than 100,000 tasting notes from established experts. Coverage depends on the wine, vintage, region and available evidence.
Why can answers vary?
Each question is interpreted and answered anew. Wording and nuance may vary, and additions to the knowledge base may affect later answers.
Do partners influence recommendations?
No. Partners support free access and may receive clearly identified visibility, but they do not influence substantive answers, recommendations, rankings or ratings.
How can companies use Winebutler?
Wine shops, online retailers and wine auctions can use Winebutler to create consistent, expert-informed descriptions for recurring or changing catalogues. We begin with representative wines and an agreed description format; partnership and commercial use are then arranged individually.
Does Winebutler learn my personal taste?
Not at present. Answers can reflect preferences and context included in your current question, but the released application does not yet use a persistent personal taste profile.