How we check wine facts
Every fact about a wine on Wineseekr – its type, grapes, region, appellation and when to drink it – starts with what the shops write. This is how we check it.
From the shops
We read each shop's title, categories and description. When several shops sell the same wine, the version most of them agree on wins; one shop's slip doesn't count against twenty.
The wine law
Some facts are fixed by law: a Barolo is always Nebbiolo, a Chablis always Chardonnay, a Pauillac always red. Where the law decides, it overrides the shops. When a shop's listing clashes with it, the wine is flagged for a closer look rather than changed blindly, because sometimes the place is the mistake (a red estate's white wine).
Checked by our AI
When you open a wine, our AI (Claude, by Anthropic) checks its details against the shops' listings and well-established knowledge of the producer, the wine and the wine law, together with the house's other wines. Only answers it is confident about change the page – you then see “Details corrected by our AI”. Anything less certain waits for a person on our team. Every correction can be undone.
Drinking window
When a shop states when a wine is at its best, we show that, with the shop's name. Otherwise our AI estimates it from the producer, appellation, vintage and style, and we say so. A drinking window is a judgement, not a fact: critics differ by years, and storage matters.
Critics' scores
Scores such as Robert Parker or James Suckling are quoted from the shops' own texts, with the shops that quote them. We don't buy or invent scores.
Measured, not assumed
We regularly check a random sample of wines by hand and with our AI to see how often a detail is wrong, and fix the causes we find.
Something wrong?
If a detail looks wrong, tell us; we read every message.