Question 1

What is Vinius?

Accepted Answer

Vinius is a wine operating system. It unifies lot-based inventory, a rules-based pricing engine, live digital wine cards and PDF wine lists, supplier reordering, valuation visibility, drinking-window intelligence and governed AI into one platform, so a wine program runs with precision instead of spreadsheets.

Question 2

Who is Vinius for?

Accepted Answer

Vinius is built for wine professionals first, restaurants and wine bars, multi-venue hospitality groups, sommeliers offering services, and wine clubs, and equally for serious private collectors who want to treat a cellar like an asset.

Question 3

How is Vinius different from a consumer wine app?

Accepted Answer

Consumer apps optimise for discovery and tasting notes. Vinius optimises for operations: inventory modelled as lots and movements with a full audit trail, explainable pricing across bottle and by-the-glass, wine cards generated from live data, supplier reorder workflows, and multi-site context so a second venue doesn't break the system.

Question 4

Is Vinius available yet?

Accepted Answer

Vinius is live and accepting applications. You can request access for founding-member onboarding. A free plan for small operations is planned.

Question 5

How does Vinius track inventory?

Accepted Answer

Inventory is modelled as lots and movements rather than a simple count. Vinius records purchases, transfers, pours, stock adjustments and sales, so you can see what changed, when it changed and why, with full attribution.

Question 6

Can Vinius handle by-the-glass programs?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Vinius tracks pours at the millilitre level and connects glass pricing to real bottle economics and configured glass volumes, so by-the-glass programs stop leaking margin through guesswork and over-pours.

Question 7

How does pricing work?

Accepted Answer

Vinius includes a real pricing engine: lot-based pricing policies, markup ranges, rounding logic, VAT-basis choices and market-aware options. Pricing becomes explainable, repeatable and consistent across the organisation instead of living in spreadsheets or one person's head.

Question 8

Does Vinius support multiple venues or locations?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Vinius is built multi-site. An active site context drives inventory, pricing and wine cards, with deterministic fallback to organisation-wide defaults, so groups keep one wine program while allowing venue-specific prices, lists and availability.

Question 9

Can I generate wine lists and digital wine cards?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Vinius generates branded PDF wine lists and digital tablet/kiosk wine cards directly from current inventory and pricing, so guests see what's actually available and staff stop patching stale lists by hand.

Question 10

Does Vinius help with ordering and reordering?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Low-stock signals become reorder suggestions, saved order lists, supplier-ready PDFs, branded emails and an auditable order history, closing the loop from low stock to a placed order.

Question 11

Is Vinius useful for private collectors?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Collectors use Vinius to track a cellar across rooms and storage units with lot-based inventory and movement history, see purchase-based and market-based valuation, and manage drinking windows, peak windows and tasting notes in one structured place.

Question 12

Can Vinius show what my collection is worth?

Accepted Answer

Vinius supports purchase-based, selling-based and market-based valuation semantics, giving clearer portfolio visibility so you understand not just what you own, but what it's worth.

Question 13

Can Vinius track drinking windows?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Vinius tracks drinking windows, peak windows, serving guidance and multiple tasting sessions over time, helping you see what's ready, what's peaking and what deserves attention next.

Question 14

Does Vinius integrate with my POS?

Accepted Answer

Vinius is designed to connect with point-of-sale systems so sales and depletion flow into a lot-level system of record. A POS is excellent at recording what sold; Vinius adds what remains at lot level, with pricing rules and publishing surfaces on top.

Question 15

How does Vinius use AI?

Accepted Answer

Vinius uses governed AI to enrich wine content, pairings, winery context, critic detail and translations, with confirmation workflows that keep human oversight. The goal is data quality that improves over time, not a pile of untrusted AI text.

Question 16

Who owns the data in Vinius?

Accepted Answer

Your organisation does. Pricing rules, supplier history, inventory records, wine notes, wine-card structure and access control stay with the business, so when a sommelier or key team member leaves, the operating memory of the wine program doesn't leave with them.

Question 17

What does Vinius cost?

Accepted Answer

Pricing is being finalised. A free plan for small operations (such as a single cellar or single venue) is planned, with paid tiers for larger and multi-venue operations. Request access to secure founding-member terms.

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