Somm AI
Never overpay for restaurant wine again
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Never overpay for restaurant wine again
7 followers
The second-cheapest wine on any list has the worst markup. You've probably been ordering it. Somm AI analyzes any restaurant wine list by URL and returns your top 10 value picks β every bottle scored on quality, retail markup, regional value, vintage, and market dynamics. Free. No account. Takes 10 seconds.
Does it pull pricing data from somewhere specific like Wine-Searcher, or are you building your own benchmark for what counts as a fair retail price?
@hkalmuk14663Β
Great question β neither, actually, and that's deliberate (for now).
Right now Somm-AI doesn't lean on an external retail price feed. Value is reconstructed structurally: producer track record, vintage quality for the region, and appellation classification give each bottle a quality signal, and then every wine is compared against its peers on that specific list. So a bottle isn't "good value" against an abstract retail number β it's good value relative to what else you could order tonight at that restaurant, which is the decision a diner is actually making.
The list-relative approach also means it works on any wine list, including obscure producers and older vintages where retail feeds get thin or stale.
That said β a retail markup layer is on the roadmap. When it ships, it'll be a benchmark blended from multiple market sources rather than a single feed, used as an additional signal on top of the structural model rather than the foundation. Happy to go deeper on the scoring model if you're curious.
Tested it on a place near me and it flagged a bottle I've walked past for years that was way better than what I usually grab. The score breakdown actually makes sense too.