Every number published, before we are taking money for it.
Nobody in this category publishes a valuation price. Ours: Pairing Studio $225 a month per property, Cellar Signals $125, both $295, valuation from $750 one-off. The free cellar report is the only thing available today and it costs nothing. No seat counts, no bottle-volume tiers, nothing held back for a call.
Not sold separately. Every product reads and writes it.
Pairing Studio $225 a month, per property
Per property, not per seat.
Cellar Signals $125 a month, per property
Per property, not per seat.
Pairing Studio and Cellar Signals $295 a month, per property
The pair rather than $350. The only discount Aivin publishes.
Cellar Valuation From $750, one-off
A cellar under 400 lots. $375 to re-certify.
Portfolio From $495 a month, per account
Groups and consultancies. Onboarded by conversation.
Taking Pairing Studio and Cellar Signals together is $295 rather than $350 — that $55 is the only discount published anywhere on this site. Re-certifying a valuation is $375.
The founding cohort
Ten houses get founding terms in exchange for shaping the product, held twelve months from the day their room goes live, with the list price printed beside every founding number so nobody is guessing what it becomes.
A cohort, not a promotion. No countdown, no urgency theatre, and the eleventh house is quoted list. Nothing is invoiced until a room is live and the property has signed off on it.
Founding cohort against list price
Product
Founding cohort
List
Cellar report
Free, now, before anything else
Free
Cellar Record
Free for 12 months
Included
Concierge Onboarding
Included
Included
Pairing Studio
$95 a month, held 12 months
$225 a month
Cellar Signals
Free for 12 months
$125 a month
Cellar Valuation
First one free
From $750
Portfolio
By conversation — groups only
From $495 a month
What a founding property gives back, in writing
Name and logo
On the site and in materials, on wording agreed in advance.
One operating metric
Published, and agreed before it is measured rather than after it looks good.
One reference call a quarter
For four quarters.
An introduction to an appraiser
One you have used, or know of.
Thirty minutes every two weeks
For the first three months, and an honest opinion when a screen is wrong.
Questions people ask first
How much does a wine cellar valuation cost?
Nobody in this category will give me a number.
From $750 for a cellar under 400 lots, and $375 to re-certify against a new effective date. Published, not quoted. Larger cellars scale by lot count on the same scale. An outside appraiser runs $2,500 to $6,000 and rebuilds the schedule from scratch every time, because nobody kept the working from the last one.
Do we have to replace BinWise or Backbar to use Aivin?
We just got the whole team onto BinWise. I am not moving again.
No, and you should not. Your inventory system counts bottles and reconciles against the POS, which is what it is for. What it does not carry is a market reference, an evidence grade, a house service window or a provenance chain, so it cannot tell an insurer what the cellar is worth. Aivin reads from it and never writes to your POS.
Our wine list is a mess. Will it import?
Three sommeliers have edited that spreadsheet. Good luck.
Not cleanly, and Aivin says so on screen rather than committing bad rows quietly. Half-case splits logged as singles, two growers filed under one surname, Ch. and Château as separate producers, bin cards that disagree with the sheet. An operator resolves that queue by hand, once, and you sign off before anything commits.
Can software appraise a wine cellar?
An appraisal is a professional opinion. You cannot automate that.
No, and Aivin does not claim to. The opinion is an appraiser’s and the signature carries their credential. What Aivin removes is the fortnight underneath it: pulling comparables by venue and date, applying format and condition adjustments, and grading the evidence lot by lot. Unsigned, the document states on its own face that it is appraisal support.
What happens to bottles you cannot find a market price for?
Half my Jura has never traded anywhere.
Carried at cost, excluded from every market total, and listed as unresolved on the face of the appraisal. Aivin will not interpolate from a neighbouring vintage or a producer average to make a cellar look complete. An estimate with no comparable behind it is the number that collapses the first time an adjuster tests it.
Can two competing restaurants sit on one consultancy account?
I have two houses four blocks apart. One leak and I lose both.
Yes, and the isolation is the product rather than a setting. Houses show as letters by default. A cohort under three is suppressed outright, not blurred, because a member who knows their own GP can solve for the rest from an average. Naming anyone needs written consent from every house on the account.
Who owns the cellar data and the pairing notes?
If I leave, does my work leave with me?
The property does, and it exports complete in CSV or JSON without asking us. Your pairing corrections go with it, attributed to whoever wrote them. Nothing is pooled across houses and nothing trains a shared model, because a cellar list is commercially sensitive and so is knowing what you paid for it.
What can we actually buy from Aivin today?
Is this software I can use, or a pitch deck?
The free cellar report, delivered by a person in five working days, and nothing else. Subscriptions open to founding houses when their room goes live, and every price is already published so you can decide without booking a call. Nothing is invoiced until a room is live and you have signed off on it.