WineSelect

A Claude Code skill that picks wines from a restaurant menu based on your personal taste profile and Vivino history.

You send a photo, link, or text of a wine list. WineSelect returns 3 ranked picks in seconds — filtered against grapes you dislike, prioritized toward grapes you want to explore, cross-checked against live Vivino ratings, and tied back to your own past scores.

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How it works

your wine list (photo / link / text)
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  Step 1: Load your taste profile
  (liked · disliked · neutral · want-to-try grapes + regions)
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  Step 2: Read the menu
  (photo OCR · WebFetch · direct text)
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  Step 3: Filter + rank
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
  │ ✗ Eliminate disliked grapes         │
  │ ✗ Eliminate neutral grapes          │
  │ 🎯 Prioritize want-to-try grapes    │
  │ 🆕 Surface unknown grape varieties  │
  │ ✅ Favor liked grapes               │
  │ 🌍 Bonus: preferred regions         │
  │ ⭐ Live Vivino rating check         │
  └─────────────────────────────────────┘
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  Step 4: Return 3 picks
  (grape · region · ABV · why you'll like it)
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  Step 5: Vivino sync (silent, desktop only)
  (new ratings → auto-written to your profile)

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What you get

🍷 WINE PICKS
📍 Restaurant Name

#1 — Wine Name (Grape — Region/Country)
🎯 Want to try
ABV: 13.5% | Vivino: 4.1
Why: You rated two Etna Rossos above 4.0 — this is the same volcanic style.

#2 — Wine Name (Grape — Region/Country)
🆕 New variety
ABV: 14.0% | Vivino: 3.8
Why: From South Africa, a region you consistently rate highly for reds.

#3 — Wine Name (Grape — Region/Country)
✅ Favorite grape
ABV: 13.0% | Vivino: 3.9
Why: Syrah from the Rhône — matches your top-rated profile exactly.

🥂 Drinking order (low → high ABV):
1. Wine Name  13.0%
2. Wine Name  13.5%
3. Wine Name  14.0%

💡 Interesting fact about one of the picks.

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Rate this recommendation: ws0 (skipped) ws1 ws2 ws3 ws4 ws5

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What each step does

Step	What happens
Load profile	Reads your wine-profile.md — grapes you like, dislike, want to try, and your Vivino rating history
Read menu	Accepts a photo, URL, or pasted text. Looks up grape variety via web search if not listed
Filter	Removes disliked and neutral grapes. Never suggests what you've already ruled out
Rank	Prioritizes want-to-try grapes first, then unknowns, then favorites. Region is a tiebreaker, not a filter
Vivino check	Pulls live community ratings for each candidate. Below 3.0 gets deprioritized. Missing rating is not penalized
Output	3 picks with grape, region, ABV, and a one-line reason tied to your past ratings
Rate	ws0–ws5 logs recommendation quality (not the wine). Helps track if suggestions are actually useful
Vivino sync	Runs silently on every call. Detects new Vivino ratings and writes them into your profile automatically

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Try it

Invoke /wineselect followed by a wine list.

Photo from your phone:

/wineselect [attach photo of wine list]

Menu URL:

/wineselect https://restaurant.com/wine-list

Pasted text:

/wineselect Syrah 2021 · Pinot Noir 2020 · Cabernet Franc 2019 · Grenache 2022 · Riesling 2021

Then rate the recommendation quality:

ws1   ws2   ws3   ws4   ws5

ws0 = I didn't try any of them · ws5 = perfect pick

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How the profile works

wine-profile-template.md is the knowledge base WineSelect reads at every call.

It contains:

• Grapes you like, dislike, are neutral about, and want to try — for Red, White, and Rosé
• Preferred regions (used as a tiebreaker, not a hard filter)
• Your full Vivino rating history (synced automatically in Step 5)

What's in the profile is what gets used. The more complete it is, the more personal the picks.

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Files

File	Description
wineselect.md	The Claude Code skill
wine-profile-template.md	Your personal taste profile — fill in your own data

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Requirements

• Claude Code with a skill plugin (e.g. Superpowers)
• An Obsidian vault or any folder Claude can read/write
• Chrome MCP (optional — for live Vivino rating lookup and Vivino sync)
• Telegram bot (optional — for mobile use and ws0–ws5 rating flow)

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Setup

1. Place wineselect.md in your Claude Code skills folder
2. Copy wine-profile-template.md to your vault — fill in your grape preferences
3. Replace placeholders in wineselect.md:

Placeholder	Replace with
YOUR_VAULT_PATH	Absolute path to your vault or notes folder
YOUR_FALLBACK_PATH	Backup path if primary is unavailable
YOUR_LOG_PATH	Where you want logs saved
YOUR_VIVINO_USERNAME	Your Vivino profile username

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Created by Serhat Kücükler