Cellar Sage: Wine Beer Pairing

Cellar Sage

About this app

What should you drink with dinner tonight?

Cellar Sage is a wine and beer food pairing app for Australia.
Tell it how you like to drink and what you are eating, and it matches you to bottles you can actually buy right now — from a shop near you, or online.

No jargon. No guessing. Answer a few quick questions about your taste, and the Cellar Fox does the rest.

— HOW IT WORKS —
Take the 2-minute palate quiz. For wine, dial in acidity, body, tannin and flavour. For beer, it is bitterness, body, fizz and aroma. Tell us what you are eating, and whether you want your drink to harmonise with the dish or contrast it.

— FOOD PAIRING, EXPLAINED —
Steak, spicy food, charcuterie, smoked barbecue, creamy pasta, fish — Cellar Sage explains why each match works, in plain language. The pairing logic follows classical sommelier and Cicerone method: match the intensity first, then find the harmony, then watch for the interactions that ruin a pairing (tannin against oily fish, alcohol against chilli heat).

— YOUR PICKS, RANKED —
Tiered recommendations, from your own backyard to the wider world:
• Local Hero — the best drop from your own state
• The Interstater — a standout from across Australia
• The Internationalist — a global icon worth the trip
• The Deal — the value pick

Each pick tells you why it earned its place, and how it compares to the cheaper option next to it.

— FIND IT NEARBY —
Where we know a local shop stocks it, you get the address, a map, one-tap directions and a phone number. Everything else links straight through to major Australian retailers.

— BEER, DONE PROPERLY —
The same palate-match smarts, built for beer the Cicerone way. Discover your top beer styles, compare per-drink pricing so a single can and a full carton are judged fairly, and see which beers made the GABS Hottest 100 — Australia's biggest public craft beer poll.

— HONEST ABOUT WHAT WE KNOW —
Where a wine has community ratings or critic scores, we show them.
Where we only know the style, we say so rather than inventing tasting notes. You will never see a confident description of a bottle we have not actually measured.

Cellar Sage promotes responsible alcohol consumption.
You must be of legal drinking age to use this app.
Please drink responsibly.

Made in South Australia.

What’s new

Organic wines are now labelled, and we say when there are none

- New: wines listed as organic carry an Organic badge, and we tell you when none are available for your varietal
- New: beers sold by the carton now show the smaller pack too, with the price per drink
- New: your top three matches now show as ranked cards, and weak matches are no longer listed
- Fixed: no more alcohol percentages we do not actually have; alcohol-free beers now say Non-alcoholic