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How to ask Vincent about your collection

Because Vincent reads your actual bottles, the questions worth asking are the ones only your own collection can answer — what to open tonight, what a wine will taste like to you, and whether something is ready.

The strongest starting point is a wine itself. Open any bottle and tap Ask Vincent: the conversation begins already knowing that wine’s region, grapes, style, critic scores, tasting notes and drink window, so you can skip describing it.

Ask Vincent about one wine

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  1. Open the wine from your collection
  2. Tap Ask Vincent — it sits at the top of the wine’s page, and in the … menu
  3. Tap one of the four suggested prompts, or type your own question
Prompt What you get back
Will I enjoy this wine? Your taste profile and reviews weighed against this wine, including where it clashes
What should I pair with this? Food and occasion suggestions for this bottle
Is this worth cellaring? Drink now or hold, anchored to the drink window shown in the app
How should I serve this? Temperature, glass and decanting time

Ask Vincent is on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web app. On iPhone, iPad and the web it works on wines you own and on wines you are only looking up.

Questions worth asking in the main chat

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A new chat opens with Jump in cards for the jobs Vincent can walk you through: Recommend a wine, Scan a wine menu, Onboard bottles, Reconcile my cellar and Create a delivery. Tap one to start, or ask your own:

  • Your bottles — “How many Cabernets do I have?”, “What’s my most valuable bottle?”, “Which of my wines is ready to drink?”, “Show me my Italian reds under $50”
  • Tonight — “I’m making lamb — what should I open?”, “Something special for six people”
  • Your own notes — “What did I think of the Caymus?”, “What have I drunk this year?”
  • Wine beyond your cellar — “How was 2019 in Napa?”, “What does tannin mean?”

Have Vincent change something

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Tell Vincent plainly rather than asking a question, and it will act: “add three bottles of the 2019 Ridge Monte Bello”, “mark that Barolo as consumed”, “put the purchase price at $80”. Vincent looks the bottles up, confirms which ones you mean, then makes the change. Phrase it as a question and it will answer instead of acting — that is deliberate.

On the web app, the reply then lists each bottle it added, removed, moved or updated.

Photos, files, follow-ups and past chats

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Tap + to attach photos — a label to identify, or a bottle for context. You can send several in one message. The same menu has Add a File for a PDF or CSV of up to 10 MB, such as an invoice or a spreadsheet of your cellar, and Scan a Wine List, which photographs a restaurant menu page by page and hands it to Vincent to recommend from. On the web app, use the attach button to add photos, PDFs or CSVs.

After each reply Vincent offers a few short follow-up chips; tap one or keep typing. When Vincent asks you to pick a cellar, wine, bottle or similar, Show more under the chips opens the full list on iPhone, iPad and the web. Everything within one conversation stays in context. The menu icon at the top of the chat lists your past chats by date, opens Settings, and starts a new chat.

Collection → tap a wine → Ask Vincent → pick a prompt

You can also tidy that list. Pin a chat to keep it in a Pinned group at the top, and choose Unpin from the same menu to put it back. Delete a chat you no longer need. Deleting cannot be undone.

Device Pin a chat Delete a chat
Web app Click the chat history icon, then ⋯ beside the chat → Pin ⋯ beside the chat → Delete, then confirm
iPhone and iPad Press and hold the chat → Pin Press and hold the chat → Delete, then Delete again to confirm
Android — Press and hold the chat → Delete → Yes

Next steps

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