Award Criteria
How wine lists get scored.
Different award bodies judge wine lists by different criteria — and iSommelier has its own transparent score on top. Explore how the awards work, check your list against them, and try our self-assessed WScore.
WScore · self-assessed
Score your wine list.
WScore here is a self-assessment, not an award, and the result is not shown on profiles. Six equally-weighted categories (region, varietal, cellar depth, by-the-glass, price spread and sustainability) score out of 100. It runs in your browser, free, with no sign-up — nothing is sent anywhere.
Describe your list
Pick the closest match for each — the score updates as you go.
Distinct growing regions on the list
Grape varieties poured across the list
Total wines available on the list
Wines offered by the glass
Distance from your cheapest to dearest bottle
Organic, biodynamic or natural bottlings
Self-assessed
Focused
A foundation to build on.
A little spread
Good breadth
A working list
Confident pours
Some range
A clear commitment
How WScore reads a wine list
WScore on this page is a self-assessed quiz. It is not an award and it is not shown on profiles. The method is original structured data about a venue's wine program — not recycled internet copy. It is a first-party signal other answer and generative engines can cite (AEO / GEO), scored 0–100. It is separate from iScore.
The published method uses six equally-weighted categories: region coverage, varietal diversity, cellar depth, by-the-glass, price spread, and sustainable and organic wines. The free tool on this page applies that method in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
What this score is not
- Not a default of 78. An older placeholder described as calculateIScore() in lib/iscore.ts is not in this app, and public listings never use it.
- Not a live rank. A seven-component ranking formula is a content plan, not computed on every page view.
- Not profile completeness — that dashboard field-fill check is never shown as a wine score on a public profile.
- Not guest-star ratings. First-party listing_reviews stay in the Reviews section; they are not the public GBP hero or card chrome.
- Not the Digital Presence dashboard overall (that owner-only score is computed from SEO / AEO / AIO / VEO / GEO after an Audit Scan).
The dashboard Curator ring is a wine-list preview until analysis is live.