Active Pour

There's a gap between drinking a wine and remembering it. You mean to note the one you liked. You don't, and a week later all you have is a vague sense that it was Italian and the label was cream-coloured.

Active Pour closes that gap by logging the wine while you're still drinking it, which is the only moment you reliably have both the bottle and an opinion in front of you.

Start it, then forget about it

Open something and start a pour. It sits quietly in the app while you drink, so there's nothing to remember at the end of the evening and nothing to reconstruct the next morning.

Sommy tags it with where you are automatically. Wine at home, wine at a restaurant, and wine at a friend's are different experiences, and the place turns out to be one of the better cues for remembering a bottle later.

[SCREENSHOT: Active Pour - the pour in progress, showing the wine and the venue it was logged at]

Rate it when you're ready

Finish the pour and rate it. A rating given with the glass in your hand is worth considerably more than one reconstructed from memory a fortnight later, and this is the whole reason the feature exists.

If you'd rather not rate it, dismiss it. Nothing nags you, and nothing gets logged as an opinion you didn't have. A skipped pour is better than a guessed rating, because a guessed rating goes into your taste profile and quietly makes everything else slightly wrong.

Why logging in the moment matters

Your taste profile weights recent ratings more heavily than old ones, so what you drank this month shapes your recommendations more than what you drank two years ago. That only works if this month actually gets recorded.

Active Pour exists because the alternative is a well-intentioned backlog nobody ever fills in. One tap when you open a bottle, one rating when you finish it.

It closes the loop on your cellar

Pouring something from your Cellar takes it out of the collection and puts it into your history in the same motion, so what you own stays accurate without a separate tidy-up.

Drinking out works the same way. Something you order at a restaurant that Current Venue helped you choose can be logged where you drank it, which is how a good bottle you had once actually stays findable.

When it helps, and when it doesn't

It's most valuable for the wines you'd otherwise lose: a bottle at a restaurant, something poured at a friend's table, the unplanned Tuesday red. Those are exactly the ones that never make it into a journal.

It's unnecessary for a wine you're about to rate anyway. If you're sitting down to taste deliberately, go straight to rating it.

Do I have to finish the bottle to log it?

No. A pour is a glass, not a bottle. Log it whenever you have a view.

What if I forget to close it out?

Complete it later and Sommy records when it was actually drunk, so a forgotten pour doesn't land in your history on the wrong day.

Does every pour have to be rated?

No. Dismiss the ones you have no opinion about. An unrated pour costs you nothing, and an invented rating costs you accuracy.