Cellar operations, digitized

The working cellar,
finally in one place.

Pinotiq turns a restaurant's wine list into structured, live data — stock, pricing, and the guest-facing menu — built by people who've counted the bottles themselves.

The problem

A cellar runs on knowledge that lives in one person's head — and a spreadsheet nobody trusts.

01

Stock and the floor disagree. The sheet says twelve, the rack says four. Guests order what isn't there.

02

The menu is always out of date. A new vintage arrives, the printed list doesn't know for another two weeks.

03

Licensed software doesn't know wine. Generic inventory tools match on barcode, not on producer, cuvée, and vintage.

What it does

One structured source. Three surfaces that read from it.

Inventory

The stock-take, on the floor

An iPad-friendly count that matches by producer and cuvée, not vintage — so a bottle is never lost to a mismatched year. Every count updates one master record.

Sync

POS and stock, reconciled

Direct sync to point-of-sale stock levels and pricing, so what's sold on the floor and what's counted in the cellar are the same number.

Menu

A guest list that's never stale

The public wine list is generated from live inventory, cached at the edge, and updated the moment stock changes — no separate document to maintain.

Ingest

Upload a PDF, get a database

Drop in an existing wine list as a PDF. Pinotiq parses it into a structured, cloud-based table — the backbone for everything above.

How we work

Run for you, not licensed to you.

Most cellar software is sold as a seat license and left at the door. Pinotiq is set up, tuned, and maintained as an ongoing service — closer to a cellar consultancy that happens to write software.

Background
WSET-trained, sommelier-track floor experience
Technical
Data & Information Science, applied to hospitality
Model
Fixed-price setup, per-client configuration, one codebase

Built first for a single working cellar in Cologne — then generalized, because every restaurant has the same problem.

Pilot case study Zippiri · Cologne