How the app works, and how to talk to it.
The globe is the search field. Type a winery, a region or an appellation — Barolo, Walla Walla, Pauillac — and results come back from the catalogue that ships inside the app. There is no network call and no account, so it works on a plane, in a cellar, and anywhere the signal has given up.
Classification searches answer with the full, authoritative list rather than whatever happens to be in the catalogue: ask for second growth or Grand Cru Classé and you get all of them, in classification order.
Every screen has a small glass button in its bottom-left corner wearing the mark of the screen you are on. Press it and the dock rises out of it: Search, Near Me, My Wineries, My Cellar and Settings. Pick one and the new screen arrives with the dock still up, the tile you chose lit; your first touch on the screen folds it back into the corner. The dock is Liquid Glass — it lights under your finger.
Hold a tile for its menu. Search offers the Globe or the Map, My Wineries offers Favorites and Visited, My Cellar offers Collection, Post, Passport, Insights and Add a Bottle, and Settings lists its pages; each opens straight where you asked. The dock shows icons alone; Settings → Appearance → Dock puts the names back under them.
Near Me finds wineries around you. The circle on the map is how far it is looking — from one mile out to a hundred, a day's drive — and the slider or a pinch changes it. Wineries close together merge into one bubble with a count; tap a bubble to zoom in until they separate. The list underneath always starts with the nearest. The map shows the same thing spatially, with the wineries you have visited marked out.
Two lists — Favorites and Visited. Add from any winery's page, or ask Siri. If a winery is missing from the catalogue you can add it yourself — or straight from a bottle, when its label names one wineryIQ doesn't have — and it stays yours.
Tap the … pill beside the shelf’s name at the top of My Cellar, choose Add a Bottle, and hold a bottle up. On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence the camera takes the picture itself once the label is steady, then reads it — producer, wine, vintage, grape and appellation where it can make them out — and offers the winery it belongs to. Shoot the back too and it is kept alongside. A bottle with no label at all can still be added, and you type in what you know. A bottle whose front is a mark rather than a label — a coin or a crest on dark glass — is cropped as a label-shaped piece around the mark and the bottle, not a band of counter and belly, and its back label stays on the glass instead of running off the edge. Start a Tasting is in the same … menu: every bottle photographed until End Tasting goes on that tasting’s shelf, marked as tried rather than owned, and can be rated from your Apple Watch as it is poured. Between bottles the camera says which bottle this is and shows the one you just kept, with End Tasting right there; a blank frame offers Retake first, and a wine list held up mid-tasting is read before the camera comes back for the next bottle.
Search, the last row of the … menu, opens a field under the tabs. Type a few letters and only the bottles whose producer, wine, grape, year, place or notes begin with them stay on the shelves; the count on the right says how many. As you type, the names in your own cellar that begin with the word you are on are offered under the field — tap one and the word is completed, and what you typed before it stays as typed.
No bottle in front of you? Choose a Photo takes one picture, or two — the front, then the back — and when wineryIQ asks for the back label you can photograph it or choose it from Photos. If the label names a winery wineryIQ doesn't have, add it in one tap, filled in from the label, and the bottle goes with it.
Rate what you drink out of five glasses and add tasting notes. Across the top, Collection is your bottles, Post shares a bottle on Mastodon and shows your feed, Passport is your year in wine, and Insights keeps your Taste Match results. Holding My Cellar on the dock opens any of the four directly, or adds a bottle.
A bottle’s page is titled by the wine — the vintage, then its name or its grape, then a classification printed on the label, such as 2020 Rioja Reserva — with Identification first: Producer, Wine, Varietals and Origin can be corrected in place, each grape shows in its own colour, a blend lists them with commas, and a grape being typed is offered as you go. The winery card below wears the barrel.
A bottle you already have. Photograph a bottle that is already in your cellar and wineryIQ asks whether to count one more bottle of it, to update that bottle with today’s photo and anything the label adds — your rating and notes stay — or to add a second bottle. Each wine shows how many bottles you have, and the Bottles row on its page changes the count; every total in My Cellar, the Passport and Siri’s answers counts bottles, not records. Settings → My Cellar has one switch, Show Duplicate Bottles: off, each wine appears once in your Collection, its newest bottle, and nothing is removed.
Where you’ve had it, on a bottle's page, answers “where have I had this wine before?” — every named wine list you chose it from, with the date and what you thought of it.
A shelf can be filled by hand, by rule, or both — build a rule such as everything from Walla Walla or four glasses or more, then add or remove individual bottles without breaking it. The first bottle from an appellation, of a grape or from a country makes that shelf by itself — Rioja, Tempranillo, Spain — in the Appellations, Varietals and Countries groups of the shelf menu; only names wineryIQ can vouch for, and never in bulk. Delete a shelf and nothing in your cellar is deleted with it; the bottles simply stop sitting there. New Shelf, in the … menu, asks for a name and offers a row of icons; the one you pick is named under the row, in your language, so a heart, a cart or a crown is never a guess.
Four quick questions — how you take your coffee, what you drink on a hot day, popcorn or a green apple, and what you usually reach for — place you on the same four scales every wine is placed on: body, acidity, richness and sweetness. It is a starting guess and nothing more; a couple of bottles you have actually rated soon outweigh it. Take it, or retake it, under Settings → Profile.
Open a bottle you have not rated and a Taste Match card tells you about how many glasses out of five you will probably give it, how confident it is, and why. When you have tried it, answer with a thumb up, OK or a thumb down — or simply rate the bottle — and Taste Match learns from it. Insights lists the wines still waiting for your answer; answered ones move to its Archive, where you can change your mind, and its own Taste Match Engine keeps the score.
It goes by your own ratings and nothing else: no reviews, no critics' scores, nobody else's taste, and nothing leaves your phone. With little to go on it says so — a 50% confidence is a coin, and the card tells you it is mostly a guess. How Taste Match Works, in the app's Help, explains all of it.
Taste Match, in the … menu at the top of My Cellar, reads two things: a whole wine list, or one bottle in your hand. Point it at a bottle in a shop or on a friend’s table and it reads the label — asking for the back when the grape is only printed there — then says how you will probably find it and whether it is already in your cellar, rated or not yet, or a wine you have had from a list before. Save to Cellar keeps it, with its card waiting in Insights; Discard lets it go.
Choose Wine List under Taste Match and point the camera at one — a restaurant's, a bar's, an airline's — or photograph it from Insights. Each wine is marked where it is printed: a thumb up or down for whether you will probably like it, and a percentage for how sure wineryIQ is.
★ Best pick for you is the wine it is surest you will enjoy — always the highest percentage among the thumbs up. ✨ Might surprise you is the wine your taste points to most strongly but that you have had few like yet: less certain, possibly better, and shown only when one stands out. Tap the one you choose and Insights will ask, later, how it was; Insights keeps a separate score for the ✨ picks.
The highlight over each wine is its colour in the glass: pale for a light white such as Sauvignon Blanc, golden for a heavier one such as Chardonnay, and light to deep for the reds. wineryIQ knows the colour of more than a hundred grapes, and of wines named for a place — Barolo, Chianti, Chablis. Pinch to zoom into the small print, or double-tap.
Name this list says where you are — a restaurant, a bar, an airline — because the list itself often does not. Names you have used before, and airlines, are offered as you type. The name is kept with every wine you choose from that list, so Insights shows where you had it. The share button makes a picture of the list with its badges, headed by the name and the date.
If you have allowed location access, wineryIQ also remembers where you were: a bottle's page shows the town it was photographed in, and a list's name field offers the restaurant, bar or winery you are sitting in. It never asks at that moment, it stays on your iPhone, and Settings → Insights → Remember Where turns it off.
A wine you have had before — chosen from another list, or a bottle in your cellar — wears a small clock on its badge. Tap it to see where, and what you thought.
Passport is the tab between Post and Insights at the top of My Cellar: your year in wine, as a page from a passport. Every place you have had a wine — a winery, a restaurant, the town a bottle was photographed in — is a gold berry on a world map, with an arc from the place you drink most often to each of the others. Beneath the map are the flags of the countries your wines come from, most often first, and the page itself: your bottles, wine lists, wineries, regions and grapes, with the strip of capitals a real passport ends with. All-time shows everything; each year has a page of its own, and the Passport opens on this year.
Share your wines. The share button at the top of the Passport makes one picture of the map, the flags and the page, ready to send to a friend, post, or keep. Nothing leaves your iPhone unless you send it. The Passport fills as you photograph bottles, choose wines from lists and mark wineries visited; wineries you mark visited count in All-time, since a visit is not dated.
Hold a bottle in your Collection, or open its page, and Share a Bottle sends it to a friend who has wineryIQ — by AirDrop, Messages or Mail, with no account and no server. Their iPhone asks “Accept bottle from …?” and the bottle lands on their Imported shelf with the photo, the details and your notes, introduced by who shared it and when. Your rating stays yours. The bottle you sent joins your Exported shelf, and its page records when it went.
Someone without wineryIQ keeps the file until they install the app, then opens it from Files. The same bottle sent twice lands once.
The watch app comes inside wineryIQ for iPhone and needs watchOS 27. Open it from the watch and swipe between its cards: Near Me (the nearest winery with Directions — turn the crown for the next), your Passport, the Taste Match results waiting for a thumb, and About, which names the build you are wearing. Everything on the wrist is a copy of what your phone knows; nothing is sent anywhere else.
A tasting. In My Cellar, choose Start a Tasting from the … menu beside the shelf’s name. Photograph each bottle as it is poured — the camera comes straight back for the next, showing which bottle this is and the one you just kept; End Tasting on the camera when the lineup is done. On the watch, a Tasting card leads: one card per bottle in pour order, tap one to five glasses, tap the cart if you would buy it, turn the crown for the next. The last card ranks the flight by your glasses, best first.
A bottle photographed during a tasting is marked as tasted, not owned: it lives on the tasting’s own shelf and on the Tastings shelf, and is exported and restored like everything else. The watch speaks the language you chose on the phone and follows when you change it.
Your cellar, photographs, notes, shelves, Taste Match results and the names you give to wine lists live on your iPhone. Export saves all of it as one archive that opens in any spreadsheet; Restore from a Backup puts an archive back, adding only what is missing and never replacing anything; Reset erases everything after showing you what will go.
Under Settings → Appearance: five app icons, cellar lighting, the material your shelves are built from — Copper, Titanium, Redwood, Mahogany, White Oak or Walnut — and whether the dock's icons carry their names. The material also cuts your cellar door, the corkscrew on Settings and the My Cellar row there. Settings → My Cellar decides whether duplicate bottles show.
wineryIQ speaks English, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.
wineryIQ needs an iPhone running iOS 27.1 or later. The Apple Watch app needs watchOS 27 or later, and comes along with the iPhone app — there is nothing separate to install. Reading a label with the camera and Siri’s “just ask” understanding use Apple Intelligence, so they want an iPhone that supports it; everything else works on any iPhone the app installs on.
Things you can ask Siri to do, without touching your phone. These work the moment the app is installed — there is no shortcut to build and nothing to configure. Open wineryIQ once first, so your phone has seen it run.
With Apple Intelligence on iOS 27, Siri understands what you mean instead of matching a phrase. Begin with “Ask wineryIQ…” or “Search wineryIQ for…” and say the rest your own way, all in one breath — Siri asks no follow-up question there, so name the winery or the wine as you ask. wineryIQ opens and shows the answer: a winery’s page, or a card answering a question about your cellar or whether you will like a wine.
Say it the way it is written. Siri matches these phrases closely, so a wording it has not been taught comes back as “I don’t understand” even though the feature works.
| To do this | Say |
|---|---|
| Look up a winery | “Search for a winery in wineryIQ” |
| Bring up a wine | “Ask wineryIQ to bring up a wine” |
| Wineries near you | “Show me wineries near me in wineryIQ” |
| Look through your labels | “Show me my wine labels in wineryIQ” |
| Add a bottle | “Add a bottle in wineryIQ” |
| Will I like it? | “Ask wineryIQ if I'll like this wine” |
| Which wine should I pick? | “Ask wineryIQ which wine I should pick” |
| About your cellar | “Ask wineryIQ how many bottles I have” |
| Ask about your cellar | “Ask wineryIQ about my cellar” |
| Save a winery | “Add a winery to my favorites in wineryIQ” |
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Opens the winery you name, straight to its page — hours, address, phone and website.
“Search for a winery in wineryIQ”Siri asks “Which winery?” — just answer out loud.
“Ask wineryIQ to bring up a winery” does the same. Name a region instead of a winery — Walla Walla, Barolo — and you get the list of results to browse.
Also works: “Ask wineryIQ to bring up a winery” · “Ask wineryIQ to show me a winery” · “Ask wineryIQ to find a winery” · “Ask wineryIQ about a winery” · “Bring up a winery in wineryIQ” · “Show me a winery in wineryIQ” · “Pull up a winery in wineryIQ” · “Search wineryIQ” · “Search wineryIQ for wineries” · “Search for a winery with wineryIQ” · “Search for wineries in wineryIQ” · “Search for a winery on wineryIQ” · “Find a winery with wineryIQ” · “Find a winery in wineryIQ” · “Look up a winery in wineryIQ” · “Look up a winery with wineryIQ”
Opens the page for one bottle in your cellar — its label, your notes and rating, the winery, its Taste Match.
“Ask wineryIQ to bring up a wine”Siri asks “Which wine?” — just answer out loud.
Say the producer, or the grape and the year. If it is not in your cellar it says so, rather than opening the wrong bottle.
Also works: “Ask wineryIQ to bring up a bottle” · “Ask wineryIQ to show me a wine” · “Ask wineryIQ to show me a bottle” · “Ask wineryIQ to pull up a wine” · “Ask wineryIQ to find a bottle” · “Bring up a wine in wineryIQ” · “Bring up a bottle in wineryIQ” · “Show me a wine in wineryIQ” · “Show me a bottle in wineryIQ” · “Pull up a bottle in wineryIQ” · “Find a bottle in my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Find a bottle in wineryIQ”
Opens wineryIQ on the wineries around you, without asking anything first. The one to use while driving.
“Show me wineries near me in wineryIQ”Also works: “Show wineries near me in wineryIQ” · “Wineries near me in wineryIQ” · “Find wineries near me in wineryIQ” · “What wineries are near me in wineryIQ”
Shows the labels you have photographed from one winery, full screen. Swipe between them; tap Done to leave.
“Show me my wine labels in wineryIQ”Siri asks “Which winery's labels?” — just answer out loud.
Where you also photographed the back of the bottle, a button flips to it.
Also works: “Show my wine labels in wineryIQ” · “Show me my wine labels with wineryIQ” · “Show me my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Show my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Show me my winery labels in wineryIQ” · “Show my winery labels in wineryIQ” · “Show me a winery's labels in wineryIQ” · “Show my labels in wineryIQ” · “Show me my labels in wineryIQ”
Opens My Cellar with the camera ready, so the bottle in your hand is three taps closer to your shelf.
“Add a bottle in wineryIQ”Also works: “Add a bottle with wineryIQ” · “Add a bottle to my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Add a bottle to my cellar with wineryIQ” · “Add a bottle to wineryIQ” · “Add a wine to my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Add this bottle to my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Scan a bottle with wineryIQ” · “Scan a bottle in wineryIQ” · “Scan a wine label with wineryIQ” · “Scan a wine label in wineryIQ” · “Photograph a bottle with wineryIQ” · “Take a picture of a bottle with wineryIQ” · “New bottle in wineryIQ”
Answers out loud, without opening the app: whether you will probably like a grape or a style, about how many glasses, how confident it is, and why — from your own ratings.
“Ask wineryIQ if I'll like this wine”Siri asks “Which wine? Say a grape, or red, white, rosé or sparkling.” — just answer out loud.
No reviews are used and nothing leaves your phone. Asking does not record anything.
Also works: “Ask wineryIQ if I will like this wine” · “Ask wineryIQ if I'll like a wine” · “Will I like this wine in wineryIQ” · “Will I like this wine with wineryIQ” · “Will I like a wine in wineryIQ” · “Will I like it in wineryIQ” · “Would I like this wine in wineryIQ” · “Would I like a wine in wineryIQ” · “Do I like this wine in wineryIQ” · “Ask wineryIQ if I would like a wine” · “Ask wineryIQ will I like this wine” · “Forecast a wine in wineryIQ” · “Forecast a wine with wineryIQ” · “Should I order this wine in wineryIQ”
With a wine list on screen — My Cellar, Insights, Photograph a Wine List — Siri reads wineryIQ's own ranking and names the one you are most likely to enjoy.
“Ask wineryIQ which wine I should pick”If nothing on the list suits you, it says so.
Also works: “Ask wineryIQ which wine I'd like most” · “Ask wineryIQ which wine I would like most” · “Ask wineryIQ which wine I'd like best” · “Ask wineryIQ which wine I'll like” · “Use wineryIQ to tell me which wine I'd like most” · “Use wineryIQ to tell me which wine to pick” · “Use wineryIQ to pick a wine” · “Ask wineryIQ which wine to pick” · “Ask wineryIQ which wine to order” · “Ask wineryIQ what I should order” · “Which wine should I pick in wineryIQ” · “Which wine should I pick with wineryIQ” · “Which wine should I choose in wineryIQ” · “Which wine should I order in wineryIQ” · “Which wine should I get in wineryIQ” · “Which wine will I like in wineryIQ” · “What wine should I pick in wineryIQ” · “What wine should I order in wineryIQ” · “What should I order in wineryIQ” · “Pick a wine for me in wineryIQ” · “Pick a wine for me with wineryIQ”
Answers in one breath: how many bottles you have and what they mostly are, your best bottles, the last ones you added, or the ones still waiting for a rating.
“Ask wineryIQ how many bottles I have”Also works: “Ask wineryIQ how many bottles are in my cellar” · “Ask wineryIQ how big my cellar is” · “How many bottles do I have in my cellar in wineryIQ” · “How many bottles do I have in wineryIQ” · “How many bottles are in my wineryIQ cellar” · “How many wines do I have in wineryIQ”
For anything else about your bottles — a grape, a place, a producer, your best. Siri asks what you want to know, and you can put it your own way. Ask for a grape, a place or a producer and My Cellar opens on exactly those bottles while Siri says how many; the count, your best, the newest and the unrated are answered in a sentence.
“Ask wineryIQ about my cellar”Siri asks “What would you like to know about your cellar?” — just answer out loud.
It answers only from what is in your cellar, so “nothing from Tuscany yet” is an answer too.
Also works: “Ask wineryIQ about my wines” · “Ask wineryIQ about my bottles” · “Ask wineryIQ a question” · “Ask wineryIQ what I have” · “Ask wineryIQ what's in my cellar” · “Ask wineryIQ if I have a wine” · “Ask my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Question for wineryIQ” · “What do I have in my cellar in wineryIQ” · “Do I have a wine in wineryIQ”
Adds a winery to your Favorites without opening the app — useful when somebody mentions one and your hands are busy.
“Add a winery to my favorites in wineryIQ”Siri asks “Which winery?” — just answer out loud.
Also works: “Add a winery in wineryIQ” · “Add a winery with wineryIQ” · “Add a winery to my favorites with wineryIQ” · “Save a winery in wineryIQ” · “Save a winery to my favorites in wineryIQ”
Say the phrase exactly as printed. The usual cause is a small rewording. If it still will not, open the app once and try again — iOS can take a minute to notice a newly installed app’s phrases.
It will say so, and name what it heard: “I couldn’t find a winery called …” That is deliberate. An earlier version guessed when unsure and quietly saved the wrong winery while reporting success — being told nothing was found is far better.
Names are matched by sound as well as spelling, so ordinary mis-hearings still land: “Brady Sellers” finds Brady Cellars. If what you said fits several wineries equally well it asks again rather than guessing.