Fit Check

You're standing in the aisle holding a bottle you've never heard of. The shelf tag says 91 points. That tells you a stranger liked it. It doesn't tell you whether you will.

Fit Check answers the second question. Type a wine's name, say it out loud, or scan the label with Vision, and Sommy reads that specific bottle against the taste profile you've been building. You get an answer in seconds, before it goes in the basket.

Two questions, not one

Most tools ask whether a wine is good. Fit Check asks two narrower questions at once: does this suit your palate, and does it suit tonight?

Those can disagree, and that's the useful part. A bottle can be squarely your style and still fight the food you're cooking. Another can sit outside your usual lane and be exactly right for the meal in front of you. Fit Check tells you which situation you're in.

• Perfect fit. Matches your taste and tonight's pairing.
• Your kind of wine. Squarely in your lane.
• Your kind of wine, but it fights the food.
• Stretch pick. Great for tonight, new for you.
• Not the right fit. Outside both.

The Fit Lens

Behind the verdict sits the Fit Lens. Instead of collapsing a wine into a single number, it shows where the bottle sits on the characteristics that actually separate it from what you normally drink: body, acidity, tannin, sweetness.

It doesn't show all of them. It picks the two that say the most about this particular bottle, measured by how far the wine sits from your taste centre and from what the moment calls for. For a big tannic red next to your usual lighter ones, that's tannin and body. For a dessert wine, sweetness carries the story. The chart adapts to the wine rather than showing you the same axes every time.

There's no numeric score to second-guess. You get a picture of the gap, and you can expand it when you want the detail.

When it helps, and when it doesn't

Fit Check is at its best when you're choosing between specific bottles: in a shop, in front of a wine list, or holding something a friend swears by.

It's least useful in your first week. A verdict is only as sharp as the taste profile behind it, so if Sommy has a handful of ratings to work from, treat the answer as a direction rather than a firm call. Rate what you drink for a couple of weeks and it sharpens quickly. Coming from another app, Vivino Import brings your history across so you can skip that stage.

It's also not a quality judgment. Fit Check will tell you a very good wine isn't for you, which is the entire point.

Does Fit Check give wines a score?

No. There's no number to argue with. You get a verdict plus the Fit Lens showing where the bottle sits relative to your taste and to the moment.

Can I use it on a wine I don't own yet?

Yes, that's the main use. Type it, speak it, or scan the label while you're standing in front of it.

How is this different from ratings and reviews?

A rating tells you what a trained stranger thought of a wine compared to others of its type. Fit Check tells you how it relates to your palate, and to what you're eating tonight. We wrote about why critic scores can't answer that.

What about a whole restaurant list?

Fit Check handles one bottle at a time. For a full list, Current Venue reads and filters it at the table.