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Drinks culture data,
bottled at scale.

We extract wine ratings, spirit reviews, tasting notes, cocktail recipes, and industry news from VinePair. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your schedule.

Reviews extracted
14.2K /run
Recipes parsed
4.8K /run
Articles indexed
22.1K /run
Active pipelines
41
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from vinepair.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Drink Reviews objects from vinepair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_urldrink_namecategorysub_categorybrandratingprice_usdtasting_notesabv_percentorigin_regionorigin_countryreview_datereviewer_namebottle_image_url
drink_reviews
● 200 OK
"drink_name": "Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 2019",
"category": "Wine",
"sub_category": "White Wine",
"rating": 94,
"price_usd": 70.0,
"tasting_notes": "Bright acidity with notes of green apple, lemon curd, and a hint of toasted almond.",
"abv_percent": 13.8,
"origin_region": "Napa Valley"
# review_urldrink_namecategorysub_categorybrandrating
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Complete list of extractable fields for Cocktail Recipes objects from vinepair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

recipe_urlcocktail_namebase_spiritingredientsmeasurementsinstructionsglass_typegarnishprep_time_minsdifficulty_levelauthorhero_image_url
cocktail_recipes
● 200 OK
"cocktail_name": "Classic Negroni",
"base_spirit": "Gin",
"ingredients": "['Gin', 'Campari', 'Sweet Vermouth']",
"measurements": "['1 oz Gin', '1 oz Campari', '1 oz Sweet Vermouth']",
"glass_type": "Rocks Glass",
"garnish": "Orange Peel",
"difficulty_level": "Beginner"
# recipe_urlcocktail_namebase_spiritingredientsmeasurementsinstructions
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Complete list of extractable fields for Articles & News objects from vinepair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

article_urltitleauthorpublish_datecategorytagscontent_bodyword_countread_time_minshero_image_url
articles_& news
● 200 OK
"title": "The Rise of Agave Spirits Beyond Tequila",
"author": "Tim McKirdy",
"publish_date": "2026-03-14",
"category": "Spirits",
"tags": "['Mezcal', 'Sotol', 'Raicilla', 'Industry Trends']",
"word_count": 1240,
"read_time_mins": 6
# article_urltitleauthorpublish_datecategorytags
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Complete list of extractable fields for Brand Profiles objects from vinepair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

brand_nameparent_companyorigin_countryprimary_spirit_typedescriptionflagship_productswebsite_urlfounded_yearprofile_url
brand_profiles
● 200 OK
"brand_name": "Campari",
"parent_company": "Campari Group",
"origin_country": "Italy",
"primary_spirit_type": "Liqueur",
"founded_year": 1860,
"flagship_products": "['Campari Bitter', 'Aperol']"
# brand_nameparent_companyorigin_countryprimary_spirit_typedescriptionflagship_products
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Complete list of extractable fields for Buying Guides objects from vinepair.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

guide_urlguide_titlecategorypublish_dateproduct_countproducts_listedauthorintroductionconclusion
buying_guides
● 200 OK
"guide_title": "The 50 Best Wines of 2025",
"category": "Wine",
"publish_date": "2025-12-01",
"product_count": 50,
"products_listed": "['Chateau Montelena 2019', 'Ridge Vineyards Zinfandel']",
"author": "VinePair Staff"
# guide_urlguide_titlecategorypublish_dateproduct_countproducts_listed
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Capabilities

Extract drinks intelligence with precision

Our VinePair scraper parses unstructured tasting notes, normalises cocktail measurements, and extracts deep brand metadata across thousands of reviews and recipes.

Full Review Extraction

Capture ratings, tasting notes, ABV, price points, and regional origin data from every wine, beer, and spirit review.

Recipe Parsing

Extract structured ingredients, exact measurements, glass types, garnishes, and step-by-step instructions from cocktail pages.

Brand Intelligence

Map parent companies, origin countries, and flagship products from detailed brand profiles and industry reports.

Buying Guide Structuring

Parse 'Best Of' lists and buying guides into structured arrays of recommended products and their associated rankings.

Article & News Archiving

Extract full article bodies, author metadata, tags, and publication dates to track industry trends and PR mentions.

Author Mapping

Track which contributors and critics are reviewing specific categories or brands across the platform.

Podcast Metadata

Collect episode titles, descriptions, guest names, and show notes from the VinePair podcast network.

Media Capture

Extract high-resolution image URLs for bottle shots, cocktail preparations, and editorial photography.

Scheduled Updates

Run continuous pipelines to capture new reviews, updated buying guides, and fresh articles as they publish.

// engagement pipeline

From target list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, specific brands, or content types. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, handle infinite scroll pagination, and build custom parsers for unstructured tasting notes.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and normalisation testing for recipe measurements before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on an agreed cadence.

Under the hood

Handling unstructured beverage data

Extracting data from editorial content requires advanced parsing. Here is how we turn prose into structured datasets.

pipeline-monitor · vinepair.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Unstructured parsing
Turning prose into data points

Editorial reviews often embed ABV, price, and origin data within paragraphs. We use custom regex and NLP pipelines to extract these specific entities into distinct, queryable schema fields.

Measurement normalisation
Standardising cocktail recipes

Cocktail recipes use mixed measurements (ounces, dashes, parts). Our parsers isolate the numeric value, unit, and ingredient name, ensuring your database remains clean and uniform.

JavaScript rendering
Handling infinite scroll and dynamic grids

VinePair uses dynamic loading for article grids and review archives. We deploy Playwright to execute JavaScript, trigger lazy-loading, and capture every item in a category.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what is new

We maintain a hash index of previously scraped URLs. Subsequent runs only parse newly published articles and reviews, reducing compute overhead and delivering a clean changelog.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation

To prevent rate limiting during deep historical crawls, we route requests through residential ISP proxies with randomised request timing and realistic browser fingerprints.

Applications

Who uses VinePair data - and how

Teams across industries use vinepair.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Beverage Market Research

Analysts track rating trends, price points, and emerging categories to identify consumer preferences and market gaps.

02
Retail & E-commerce Enrichment

Online liquor retailers populate their product pages with expert tasting notes, ratings, and cocktail suggestions to drive conversions.

03
AI Recipe Generation

Machine learning teams use structured cocktail ingredient lists and measurements to train generative AI models for mixology.

04
Brand Monitoring

Beverage companies track PR mentions, competitor reviews, and editorial coverage to measure brand sentiment.

05
Competitor Analysis

Brands benchmark their portfolio ratings and price points against competitors within specific categories like Tequila or Bourbon.

06
Content Curation

Aggregator platforms and newsletter publishers use automated feeds of industry news and buying guides to curate content.

Why DataFlirt

"VinePair holds the definitive archive of modern drinks culture - but its true value is only accessible when editorial prose is converted into structured data."

Extracting data from media sites requires more than simple HTTP requests. It requires handling infinite scroll, parsing unstructured text, normalising varied measurements, and maintaining selectors against frequent CMS updates. DataFlirt manages this entire process, delivering clean, structured records ready for immediate analysis.

Technical Spec

VinePair scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our vinepair.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for infinite scroll and dynamic content grids
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs to prevent rate limiting during deep historical crawls
Supported
Ingredient normalisation
Parsing raw recipe strings into distinct measurement, unit, and ingredient fields
Supported
Rating extraction
Isolating numeric scores from review badges and text blocks
Supported
Author & Tag mapping
Extracting all metadata tags and contributor profiles per article
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diffing to only emit newly published content since the last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per new article or review for real-time downstream processing
Supported
Historical archive extraction
Deep crawling of category pagination to retrieve years of past reviews
Supported
Newsletter exclusive content
Content delivered only via email subscriptions and not published on the web DOM
Partial
User comments / forum data
VinePair does not host public user comments on articles or reviews
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the VinePair pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and infinite scroll interactions. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to prevent IP bans during extensive historical archive extraction.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested arrays - ideal for complex recipe structures
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible for analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted dataset on demand
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow - incremental or full-replace
// faq

Common questions.

About vinepair.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping VinePair legal?

Scraping publicly available information from VinePair is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated editorial content, recipes, and reviews. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle unstructured tasting notes?

We deploy custom parsing logic using regex and NLP techniques to isolate specific entities like ABV percentages, price points, and regional origins from within editorial paragraphs, outputting them as distinct JSON fields.

Are cocktail ingredients cleanly structured?

Yes. Our parsers split raw recipe strings into three distinct fields: measurement (e.g., 1.5), unit (e.g., oz), and ingredient (e.g., Gin). This ensures your database can perform accurate queries and conversions.

How often can you update the data?

We can configure pipelines to run daily, weekly, or hourly. For news and articles, frequent change-detection runs ensure you capture new content shortly after publication.

Can you extract historical reviews?

Yes. We can perform deep crawls through category pagination to extract years of historical reviews, buying guides, and recipes to build a comprehensive baseline dataset.

Do you extract images?

We extract high-resolution image URLs for bottle shots, cocktail preparations, and article hero images. We do not host the image files directly, but provide the source URLs.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 reviews or recipes as part of the pre-engagement scoping process, allowing you to validate schema fit and parsing accuracy.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=vinepair.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a complete historical archive of wine reviews or a continuous feed of new cocktail recipes, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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