The sommelier
who learns.
Wine is personal. It should feel that way.
Wine has always been the territory of experts — critics, stewards, sommeliers with answers to questions you didn't know to ask. That's fine, if you happen to know a sommelier. Most of us don't. So we point at a bottle we've heard of, or the second-cheapest one on the list, and hope we guessed right. Sommvi exists because wine shouldn't feel like a test. It should feel like yours.
We built Sommvi on a simple idea: your palate is unique, it's knowable, and once it's known, the whole world of wine opens up. No more guessing. No more bluffing. Just bottles that taste the way you want them to — and the confidence to try one you've never heard of.
Six axes. A thousand shades of you.
Every Sommvi palate sits on six axes — bold, tannic, earthy, fruit, acidic, floral — each tuned from your actual preferences, not a personality quiz. The first time you use the app, we ask a few questions. From then on, every wine you try refines the shape of your palate. Over weeks, it stops guessing. Over months, it starts knowing.
Sommvi doesn't push you toward the popular bottle. It pushes you toward your bottle — the one you'll finish without checking the label, then open again a week later.
A conversation, not a catalogue.
Most wine apps hand you a list. Sommvi hands you a person. Ask "something bright for Tuesday night," and you'll get a recommendation with a reason — not a filter UI.
Under the hood, Sommvi runs on a conversational AI trained to think like a sommelier: it remembers what you've had, what you liked, what you're cooking, and what the weather's doing. Then it pours into the conversation exactly what a good sommelier would.
We know your palate
better than you do — and
we make wine feel like yours.
Built like a printed page.
Sommvi takes its design language from the things we love: the editorial rigour of Noble Rot, the restraint of Aesop, the quiet luxury of a vintage Bordeaux label. Every screen in the app is set in Fraunces and DM Sans, spaced on a four-pixel grid, and proofed like a magazine spread. This is not a dashboard. It's a printed page that happens to live in your pocket.
We believe software can feel like a thing you'd want to keep on a shelf. Sommvi is our attempt at that thing.
A Bottle of Sassicaia
and a Realisation
It started, as most good things do, with a bottle opened among friends.
Dmitry and Emil had drunk wine before — of course they had. But that evening, with a Sassicaia on the table, something shifted. The wine was different in a way neither of them could quite articulate yet. Not just better. More alive. More specific. It had a character that demanded attention, that rewarded curiosity, that made you put down your phone and actually pay attention to what was in the glass.
They looked at each other across the table and understood, without saying it, that they’d been missing something.
Vineyards, Winemakers,
and the Real Meaning of Wine
What followed was an education that happened mostly in person. They travelled — to Tuscany, to Bordeaux, to small estates down unmarked roads where the winemaker was also the one who answered the gate. They sat in cellars with sommeliers who spoke about their wines the way poets speak about language. They met vineyard owners whose families had been farming the same hillside for six generations, who tasted the soil before they tasted the wine.
They learned that wine isn’t just a drink. It’s a community. A hobby. A living record of place and season and human effort. It’s one of the few things in modern life that is genuinely irreproducible — a 2015 Barolo from a particular slope will never exist again.
And it’s a great deal of fun, which matters more than people in the wine world sometimes let on.
The Right Wine Exists.
Finding It Is the Hard Part.
Travelling and tasting, they kept returning to the same observation: most people would love wine more if they could find the wines that were right for them.
Not the wines that critics loved. Not the wines that scored highest or sold most. The wines that matched their specific palate — their taste for structure or softness, their preference for earth or fruit, their tolerance for tannin and their response to acid. Wine is intensely personal, and yet every tool available treated it as if taste were universal.
The rating aggregators. The algorithmic filters. The supermarket staff picks. All of them answering a question nobody actually asked: what do most people think of this wine?
The question worth answering was different: what wine is right for you?
A Sommelier
in Your Pocket
Sommvi exists because that question deserves a real answer.
Not a generic recommendation. Not a score. A personal sommelier — one that learns how you taste, builds a picture of your palate from every bottle you encounter, and uses that picture to find the wine you’ll actually love. Whether you’re choosing something for dinner, picking a bottle for a date, adding to a collection you want to actually understand, or simply wanting to know more than the person across the table — Sommvi is here.
The best wine in the world is the one that’s right for you. We built Sommvi to help you find it.
— Dmitry & Emil