Wine Cellar: Track Your Collection with AI Food Pairing

Your Bottles. Your Way.

You know that feeling of opening a bottle and thinking, “I should have saved this for a better occasion”? Or the opposite: cooking something special and realising you have no idea which bottle in your collection would actually pair well with it?

The wine cellar in Sommo solves both problems. It gives you a clear view of what you own, lets you organise bottles across named racks, and pairs you with an AI that tells you what to open tonight.

Multiple Racks, One Cellar

Most collectors don’t keep every bottle in one place. The everyday reds live in the kitchen, the special bottles age in the basement, the office fridge holds the whites that need to be cold by 6pm.

Sommo’s cellar mirrors how you actually store wine:

• Named racks. Create as many as you need. Kitchen, Cellar, Office, Wedding Stash, In Storage. Each rack gets its own name and its own grid.
• Per-rack grid sizing. A 12-slot wine fridge needs different dimensions than a 60-bottle cellar wall. Each rack picks its own rows and columns.
• Cross-rack moves. Move a bottle from Kitchen to Cellar with a drag. The bottle keeps its history, your inventory updates instantly.
• All Racks view. Step back and see your whole collection at a glance, with adaptive cell sizing that keeps everything legible across rack sizes.
• Rack switcher in the navbar. Tap the rack name to jump between them. The chip strip at the bottom shows you which rack you’re on without taking your hand off the wine list.

A Default rack is always pinned at the top so newcomers can start without thinking about layout. The moment you add a second rack, the picker and chip strip light up.

A Collection You Can See

Every wine in your cellar shows the full details from its original scan: producer, vintage, grape varieties, region, tasting notes, and your personal notes. You see quantities at a glance, so you know whether you have one precious bottle or a case to work through.

Adding wines is fast. Scan a label and Sommo offers a placement card: pick the rack, tap a slot in the grid, set quantity, optionally add a note like “Anniversary dinner” or “Gift from Marco.” Done.

When you open a bottle, mark it as opened. The slot frees up. Changed your mind? Undo it.

AI That Knows Your Cellar

The standout feature is AI food pairing. Tell Sommo what you’re eating and it looks at every bottle you own, across every rack, analyses the flavour profiles, and recommends the best match.

This isn’t a generic “red wine goes with steak” suggestion. The AI considers the specific wines in your collection. If you describe “grilled salmon with lemon butter,” it might recommend your Chablis over your Sauvignon Blanc based on the vintage and producer style. If you’re making a rich beef bourguignon, it’ll point you to the right Burgundy or Rhône bottle, and tell you which rack to grab it from.

Pairing results are cached for 24 hours, so asking the same question twice doesn’t waste time.

Recent Searches You Can Revisit

Wine pairing is rarely a one-time decision. You plan a dinner over morning coffee, then come back to it at 6pm. The pairing sheet keeps your last 20 searches, with the meal description, the top pick, and a relative date. Tap any row to reopen the full result, re-enriched against the wines currently in your cellar (quantities, rack positions, anything you’ve consumed since).

Pairing to Journal in One Flow

Picking a wine is half the job. The other half is remembering what you drank.

Tap Add to Journal on any pairing pick and Sommo runs the full chain: opens the bottle, decrements the cellar, then surfaces the rate sheet so you can capture your impression while it’s fresh. One continuous flow from “what should I open” to a journal entry that feeds your Wine Character Analysis.

Drinking Windows That Learn Your Palate

Every bottle gets a drinking-window estimate: not a single date, but the full too-young, ready, and past-its-peak curve, with the strength of the vintage folded in. The rack glyph is coloured by wine type with the outline tracking the window state: young, ready, declining. Tell Sommo how a bottle is stored, warm and swinging or cool and steady, and its window tightens to match. Rate the bottles you open and Sommo nudges future windows toward how wine actually tastes to you, showing the standard window and your taste side by side.

When a bottle moves into its peak, Sommo sends a push notification so a good wine doesn’t get forgotten in the back of the cellar. The Next to Open card on the home screen surfaces a recommended bottle with a haptic-confirmed Open button, and Open Tonight ranks the bottles most worth drinking now by readiness. Tap the info button on any window for a plain-language guide to how the estimate is built. For the full story, see how Sommo estimates drinking windows.

For Collectors Who Drink

Sommo’s cellar isn’t built for people who want to chase auction prices. It’s built for people who buy wine to drink it and want to drink it well.

You scan a bottle at the shop. Sommo offers a rack and a slot. When the right moment comes, you ask the AI what to open, or you check the Next to Open card. You open the bottle. You rate it. Simple.

Pair the cellar with your wine journal and you have a complete loop: buy, store, pair, drink, record. Every bottle gets the attention it deserves.

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