Learn · Your taste
How the house learns your taste
On every wine, the house tells you the chance that it ends up among your favorites. Here is where that number comes from, how often it is right, measured, and what changes with each of your ratings.
How often the house is right
The house, with 3 of your ratings: 7 in 10
Saying “yes” to everything: 5 in 10
With 3 of your ratings, the house is right 68% of the time when it says whether a wine will end up among your favorites. Someone saying “yes” to everything would be right 54% of the time. Measured on X-Wines people the model had never seen.
The ladder
Each step is a number of your answers: a rating from 1 to 5 stars (half stars count), or an “I liked it / I didn't like it”.
- 0First guessyou are hereWith 1 or 2 answers, just the sentence: “similar to what you liked”.
- 3The house has your style downyou are hereThe number shows up. Right 68% of the time, measured.
- 10The house knows you wellyou are hereWith 5 checked guesses, your scoreboard shows up.
- 20From here on it changes littleyou are here69%. Taste changes, and the house keeps up.
Took the 1-minute quiz in your cellar? With it, the number can show up before your 3rd rating.
Measured, not promised
Right with 3, 5, 10 and 20 ratings: 68.3%, 68.6%, 68.7% and 69.0%. The curve is nearly flat, and the chart shows it: the number the house shows is already calibrated from the 3rd rating on, and it does not “climb” over time.
What really changes
- The guess becomes a number. Until your 3rd rating, the house only gives a sentence. At the 3rd, or with the quiz done, the chance shows up as a number. It can show up sooner, with two ratings pointing the same way.
- The scale becomes yours. People who usually rate high and people who are strict are each measured on their own scale.
- Exceptions come in. Didn't like a wine, “just this one”, even though it looks like the ones you like? The house notes the exception for it and its near-twins, without changing what it thinks about the rest.
- The scoreboard shows up. With 5 checked guesses, your cellar shows how many the house got right with you.
When the house says it, does it happen?
With 3 ratings: when the house said around 70%, 72% of the wines ended up among the favorites; when it said around 30%, 33%. The number means what it says.
How a guess gets checked
- Read the labelFriday, 9 pm
- The house saidGood chance · 75%
- You rated it4.5 of 5
- Guess checkedright
The house is right when it said 60% or more and you gave 4 or 5, or when it said 40% or less and you gave 1 or 2. In between, it is lukewarm and does not count. With 5 checked, your cellar shows your scoreboard.
The “For you” box, from zero ratings to ten
Examples of how the box looks on a wine's page.
0 ratings, no quiz
Take the taste quiz in your cellar, and the house tells you if this one suits you.
3 ratings
For you · from 3 of your ratings
Good chance · 70%
that this one ends up among your favorites
10 ratings
For you · from 10 of your ratings
Good chance · 75%
Measured on your own scale: your ratings tend to be high.
And, in your cellar, the scoreboard: “The house got 6 of the 8 wines you checked right.”
How the number works, and how it was measured
The number has two parts. What ranks the wines is the rating from people who already drank each one, in the open X-Wines reviews. The way you rate adjusts the scale: people who usually rate high and people who are strict are each measured on their own scale.
Your style (red or white, light or full-bodied) the house does not yet know how to use any better than that: measured, it did not improve the number. The house says so and keeps measuring.
A wine with no X-Wines rating (a house label, a community wine) uses what the wine is: type, grape, country. Then the box is called “For your taste” and says something else, the chance that you like it, a less certain number. The number comes in steps of 5, from 5% to 95%.
How it was measured: on X-Wines people the model had never seen. For each person, part of their ratings was hidden, and the guess was checked against them. Half stars do not change the number: they sit halfway between their neighbors.
What the house knows about your taste, only you see.
Spotted something wrong on this page?
Got it, thanks. The house checks the source and fixes it.