WhatWine app for iPhone and iPad

WhatWine is a free app that helps you decide which wine to choose in a restaurant, based on the food you and your friends are ordering.

Why should choosing wine in a restaurant be such a daunting task? Professional wine stewards, or sommeliers, study for years how best to match wines with specific dishes. How can you be expected to know if a 2009 Malbec Gran Reserva from Argentina is a good choice if people in your party are eating beef, tuna AND lamb?

WhatWine employs advanced character recognition technology (OCR) to interpret and analyze the entries on any wine menu. To find out which ones go best with your order, just tap on any food icon. The best wines for your food selection will appear at the top of the list.

Wine lists are scanned and indexed by our community of users around the world. If nobody has scanned the wine list of the restaurant you are in, all you have to do is point your phone at the list and snap a full page picture. We handle the rest.

Just sit back and enjoy the food and wine.

Scanning is very simple. Simply hold your phone above the wine list to snap an image of the page. You take take more photos if the wine list has multiple pages. From there, our iPhone sommelier will read the image, line by line, identifying each wine.

WhatWine requires an active internet connection.