Traditional wine journals are diaries: you write a tasting note, close the book, and the insight stays trapped on the page. Saignée is a living journal. Every wine you rate — even a quick thumbs-up on a weeknight bottle — teaches it your palate across three dimensions: varietal, region, and style. Over time it surfaces patterns you wouldn't have noticed on your own ('you consistently prefer Nebbiolo over Sangiovese at the medium-weight end'), and it turns that knowledge into proactive recommendations from the bottles you already own. No manual tagging, no curated spreadsheet. Just drink, rate, and watch your taste profile sharpen.
What Saignée does for wine journal apps
Automatic taste profile
Rate a bottle and Saignée updates your Palate — a live map of what you love, what to avoid, and what's neutral — across varietal, region, and style.
Tasting notes on every bottle
Log impressions, food pairings, and a personal rating. Notes stay attached to the bottle and appear in your consumption history.
Drinking window on every wine
Every bottle in your journal gets an AI-generated drinking window so you know when to open it — not just what you thought of it.
AI pairings from your journal
Tell Saignée what you're cooking tonight and it picks the best match from the wines you actually own, filtered by your taste profile.
Consumption history
Browse every bottle you've ever opened, when you drank it, what you thought, and what it paired with — a complete drinking record that grows with you.
Wishlist & restock prompts
Loved a bottle? Saignée offers to add it to your wishlist the moment you log it as finished, so you never lose track of a wine worth repeating.
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Start freeFrequently asked questions
Can I import my existing wine notes into Saignée?
Yes. Upload a CSV from CellarTracker, Vivino, InVintory, or a spreadsheet and Saignée imports your cellar, maps columns automatically, and enriches every wine with a fresh drinking window. Your existing inventory becomes the starting point for your journal.
Does Saignée work as a free wine journal app?
Yes. The free Taster plan tracks up to 10 bottles with tasting notes, ratings, and drinking-window guidance. No credit card needed. Upgrade to Collector ($7.99/mo flat) for unlimited bottles, AI pairings, and push alerts.
How is Saignée different from a paper wine journal?
A paper journal stores what you write; Saignée learns from it. Every rating feeds your Palate (your structured taste profile), which Saignée uses to personalise recommendations, flag bottles at peak, and suggest what to pair with tonight's dinner.
Can I see a history of every wine I've drunk?
Yes. The consumption history shows every bottle you've logged as finished, with the date, your rating, any notes, and what you ate with it — a complete record you can scroll and search.