I built a wine vintage reference app after years of frustration with what’s out there

Ive worked in wine (sommelier) for around 5 years now. I still often get caught out by a vintage I don’t know well enough.

Googling the vintage usually gives you an outdated chart with Parker scores, a paywalled article, maybe a forum post from 2013; nothing particularly useful. So I built something that’s exactly what I’ve always wanted to have in my pocket at work: 16,555 vintage reports for 353 appellations across 18 countries, going back to 1945. Not just a rating but drinking windows, seasonal context, and producer callouts for the years that matter. All information is synthesised from published critical consensus.

It’s called Cru Wine Vintage. It recently went live on the iOS App Store, £4.99 for unlimited access to the searchable database of 16,555 detailed vintage files. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/cru-wine-vintage/id6762121867

It’s probably of most use to people who work in wine or collect seriously, but honestly anyone who’s ever stood in a wine shop or looked at a wine list, not knowing if the vintage is going to be any good.

Happy to answer questions.