Vinote
Features
One job, done properly: remembering what you drank.
Vinote does five things — capture, note, ask, understand, share. Everything below is in the app today. Nothing here is a roadmap promise.
01 — Capture
The label does the typing.
Photograph the bottle and Vinote reads it: wine name, producer, vintage, grape, region. The entry arrives already filled in, and anything it misreads takes one tap to fix. No bottle to hand? Add a photo from your library, or type it in yourself.
Read from the label
02 — Note
Five stars and a sentence.
One rating, one free-text note — no appearance/nose/palate/finish grid to fill in like a homework sheet. Write “too oaky, drank it anyway” if that's the truth of it. Hold the mic and Vinote transcribes while you talk, which is the only realistic way to take a note across a loud table.
Ratings carry the app's own labels — Outstanding, Very Good, Good, Decent, Pass — so a five means the same thing to you in two years' time.
Your rating
OutstandingYour note
03 — Ask
Ask Vinote anything, including about yourself.
A wine expert in the app that also happens to have read your journal. General wine questions, pairing help, or a direct look through your own history. On every plan, and unlimited with Premium.
"My top-rated reds"
Your journal, sorted and read back to you — with the wines it used listed underneath.
"What pairs well with lamb tonight"
Straight wine knowledge, weighted towards the styles you already like.
"Help me choose from a wine list"
Photograph the list; Vinote reads the page and narrows it down to a couple of bottles.
Follow-up suggestions appear as chips under each answer, so a whole conversation can be had by tapping.
04 — Understand
Palate Profile, built from what you rated — not what you bought.
Grapes you rate highest. Regions you rate highest. Your split between reds, whites and rosé. Your favourite entries, and — kept deliberately secondary — what you simply log most often, whatever the score.
It needs a handful of entries before it says anything confident, and it tells you so rather than inventing a personality for you. A one-minute palate quiz at sign-up gives it something to go on from day one; you can skip it.
Regions you rate highest
Most logged
05 — Share, and keep
Private by default. Shared one bottle at a time.
There's no feed and no followers. When someone asks what that wine was, you send them a link to that single entry — label, rating, note — and nothing else.
Share links
A proper page for one wine, with a preview card when you paste it into a message.
Buy again
Your highest-rated bottles kept together, for the next shop or the next wine list.
Leave whenever
Delete your account and everything in it outright, from inside the app.
What Vinote deliberately isn't.
A short list, because knowing what an app refuses to do is usually more useful than its feature grid.
Not a cellar manager. No bottle counts, no storage locations, no inventory to maintain. A journal is a record of what you drank, not what you own.
Not a social network. No feed, no followers, no likes on your tasting notes.
Not a wine shop. Nobody pays to appear in your Palate Profile or in an answer from Ask Vinote.
Start with one bottle.
Free to begin, and the free plan is a real one — every feature in the app, your first 10 wines and 20 questions for Ask Vinote.
