A ritual in every glass.
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01 · The ritual
A ritual in every glass
Why a ritual? Because wine is the slowest thing we still share. A vine gives one harvest a year, and a great bottle may wait decades for its hour. When at last it is opened, it asks something of us in return: to slow down, to gather, to be fully present. Someone chooses a bottle with a person in mind. A table is laid. The cork yields, the first pour travels the table, and for a moment everyone leans in.
It is one of the oldest communions we know. Long before there were words for friendship, there was a cup passed from hand to hand. To pour for another is to offer a season of sun and rain, a single place, a year that will never return. Around that glass, strangers become guests and guests become kin. Stories surface that would be told nowhere else: a confession, a toast, the memory of someone absent. What passes between us is never only wine. It is time, trust, and the quiet recognition that we are here, together, and that this hour matters.
Yet the ritual is fragile. The glasses empty, the table is cleared, and what was felt there survives only in the memory of whoever was present. We believe such moments deserve to be kept.
SipSip exists to bring people to the table and to remember what happened there, so that every glass can become what it was always meant to be: a ritual.
02 · Party
The party
SipSip is the first platform built for Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB). Anyone can host a gathering or join one, and everyone arrives with a favourite bottle to share.
Prefer simply to arrive? SipSip curates the finest wine tastings in town, ticketed and a tap away.
In the app · example
Grand Cru Burgundy dinner
Hosted by Nicolas
Charlotte asked to join Grand Cru Burgundy dinner
04 · Sommelier
A sommelier who listens
Knowing a little more makes every glass richer. Why this grape, why this hillside, why that year was the one.
SipSip puts a sommelier at every table. Ask about any bottle on any post, or call on it in the middle of a party chat, and the answer arrives for everyone at once. With your permission, it learns your taste.
Party chat · example
SipSip AI
Start with the Chablis. Its bright acidity wakes the palate and suits the oysters. Open the Barolo now so it can breathe, and pour it with the lamb.05 · Venues
A curated list of wine-focused venues
Anyone can add a bar or restaurant to SipSip. Only a few earn a place on our recommended list, and each is told the way wine people want to read it: the story of the cellar, the sommelier behind it, the vintages worth crossing town for, and the facts that make a list worth trusting.
Diners no longer come for the food alone. The right pairing lifts every dish and turns dinner into an occasion, and more and more guests choose where to eat by the wine list.
SipSip is built to bring millions of wine lovers to the right table. List your venue with us and tell the stories behind your wines.
In the app: free listing, owners verified by our team · a recommended list curated for wine, told through its cellar, its people and its pours · corkage, wine list, glassware and sommelier on every venue page · ratings for pairing, glassware, service and the list · a small fee applies per guest who arrives.
In the app · example
Caprice
Caprice's French-led wine list runs to more than 1,200 labels, deepest in Bordeaux and Burgundy and reaching well beyond France. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and won a Silver Star for Best Long List at Star Wine List of the Year Asia 2025. Senior Sommelier Floriane Hureau received the Michelin Guide Hong Kong & Macau Sommelier Award in 2026, and the team hosts wine nights with French producers. — Four Seasons, LH Magazine, Time Out, En Primeur Club, James Suckling, Star Wine List
Burgundy-born, Victor leads the wine programme at Caprice. Under him the restaurant has poured more than a hundred 6-litre bottles of Château d'Yquem, making it one of Yquem's global ambassadors. — Four Seasons, Star Wine List
06 · Connoisseur
The path to SipSip Connoisseur
The people who make wine culture warmer are the generous ones: the host who sets one more place, the passionates who share every notes they experienced, the active enthusiasts who interact with the community.
SipSip honours them. Hosting, sharing and tasting all count, and a badge, once earned, is yours for good. Like a great vintage, it only gains with time.
Every point you earn brings you closer to an exclusive invitation to our annual wine events around the world, hosted with some of the most respected names in wine (coming soon).
Professional sommeliers with a verified certification carry the Sophisticated Sommelier badge, on their profile and on the venues where they work.
Badges
Bronze0 pts
Silver1,000 pts
Gold5,000 pts
Connoisseur15,000 ptsEmmanuel Cadieu
The waitlist
Save your seat at the table.
Members need only an email and a phone number. Restaurants and bars tell us about their wine, so the listing is ready on day one.
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03 · Social
Social: the community that keeps your moments and shapes your taste
A great wine, whether a masterpiece like Romanée-Conti 1945 or a beautifully crafted South African Cabernet, is never only a drink. Opening one is an occasion, a status made real: to pour it is to take your place in the long history of wine, a mark of standing and of taste earned over a lifetime. What endures is who sat beside you, and the story told as the glass came round. SipSip is here to help you share and celebrate those moments with the community.
On SipSip, sharing means leaving a record. Long after the glasses are empty, SipSip keeps it all: one photo of the table names every bottle, and your taste journal will always be captured.
In the app · example
Vivian
at Pinot and Chardonnay Tuesday · 2h