# Wine Pairing Scout

> Wine Pairing Scout is an AI-powered mobile app (iOS & Android) that recommends the best wine pairings from any wine shelf, restaurant wine list, or personal cellar. Users photograph wines with their camera, tell the app what they're eating, and receive the top 3 ranked pairings with expert explanations, WPS scores, and pricing — powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet and Google Gemini vision models.

## About

- Developer: BatLab Studio (matthieu.labbat@gmail.com)
- App Store ID: 6764820045 (iOS), com.batlabstudio.winepairingscout (Android)
- Launched: 2026
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), British English
- Contact: info@winepairingscout.com
- Website: https://winepairingscout.com

## Main Pages

- [Home — Features & Download](https://winepairingscout.com/): Full overview of the app, interactive pairing demo, use cases, feature list, FAQ, and App Store / Google Play download links.
- [Contact](https://winepairingscout.com/contact.html): Contact form and support email for user enquiries, partnerships, and press.
- [Privacy Policy](https://winepairingscout.com/privacypolicy.html): Full GDPR-compliant privacy policy covering data collection, AI processing, third-party services, and user rights.

## What the App Does

Wine Pairing Scout solves a specific problem: choosing the right wine to match a meal, whether in a restaurant, wine shop, or at home from a personal cellar.

Core user flow:
1. User photographs a wine shelf, restaurant wine list, or selects from their personal wine cellar.
2. User enters their meal (e.g. "filet mignon", "lemon sole", "mushroom risotto") or selects from 25 cuisine types.
3. AI vision models analyse the wine labels and return 3 ranked recommendations — gold, silver, bronze — with pairing explanations, WPS (Wine Pairing Scout) expert scores, and price per glass or bottle.

## Key Features

- AI wine label recognition via photo (up to 4 photos per scan, full-resolution tiling)
- Top 3 ranked pairings with gold/silver/bronze badges and WPS expert scores
- Pairing explanations written in natural language by AI sommelier
- Price range slider and wine style preferences (body, dryness, acidity, grape, country, type)
- My Cellar: personal wine collection manager with drinking windows, tasting notes, and ratings
- My Pairings: full pairing history with dates, meals, and wines
- My Ratings: aggregated wine ratings (0–5 stars) across all sessions
- Cloud sync via Google or Apple sign-in (Clerk authentication)
- Push notifications: cellar drinking-window reminders and re-engagement nudges
- 9 language localisations
- Multi-currency price display

## AI Models Used

- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 (default — balanced quality and cost)
- Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (fastest, lowest cost)
- Google Gemini 2.5 Flash (via OpenRouter — cheapest overall)
- Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (strong reasoning)
- Qwen 2.5-VL 72B (open-source, strong non-English OCR)
- Meta Llama 4 Maverick

## Subscription Tiers

- Free: 5 pairings (one-time), 10 wines in cellar, 30-day history, ads shown
- Basic: 200 pairings/month, unlimited history, larger cellar, no ads
- Premium: 200 pairings/month, unlimited cellar, priority AI, exclusive sommelier notes, no ads
- One-time top-up: 10 pairings, tokens never expire

## FAQ

**What is Wine Pairing Scout?**
An AI-powered mobile app that analyses photos of wine shelves or restaurant menus and recommends the best wines to pair with your meal.

**How does it work?**
Take a photo of any wine shelf or restaurant wine list, enter your meal, and the app uses AI vision to read the labels and rank the top 3 best-matching wines with expert explanations.

**Is it free?**
Yes — 5 free pairings included. Premium plans unlock 200 pairings per month, unlimited cellar storage, and exclusive sommelier notes.

**Which AI powers the recommendations?**
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (default), with options for Claude Haiku, Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, and others.

**Does it work at restaurants?**
Yes — photograph the wine list and the app reads every bottle, even from a distance, and recommends the best match for your dish.

**Is there a personal cellar feature?**
Yes — My Cellar lets you store your collection with vintage, ratings, drinking windows, and tasting notes, and pair directly from it.

## Crawling & Usage

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