Community reviews are the reviews other InVintory members have chosen to publish. You can read them, like them and comment on them, and you can publish your own by switching a review from Private to Public.
🔒 Nothing you write is public unless you say so. Every review starts Private, and a one-tap Loved / Liked / Disliked reaction is always private. A review only reaches the community once you tap the badge and switch it to Public.
Your private reviews still appear in your own copy of the feed, which is what makes people think they went out. They did not — a padlock on the card is the tell, and only you ever see those cards.
Publishing a review
In the composer, tap the Private badge beside the wine name. It becomes Public.
A second badge appears: Comments on or Comments off. Tap it to choose.
If you have never published before, the app asks you to pick a username first — that is the name your review carries.
Tap Done.
Switching a published review back to Private takes it out of the feed and turns its comments off. Editing a review never changes who can see it — the badge does.
Reading the feed
iPhone & iPad | Explore tab → Latest community reviews |
Android | Reviews tab → Feed |
Web | Reviews in the left sidebar → Community |
Each card shows the reviewer, the wine and vintage, their reaction, their notes and any photos. Tap a card to open the full review, the reviewer's panel and more of their reviews. Tap the heart to like it, and Comments to join in — comments only appear when the author left them on.
Narrowing it down
Search the text of reviews, sort by Most liked or newest first, and tap Filter to narrow by reaction, whether the reviewer would buy it again, and reviews with photos only. The same filters work on your own reviews.
What other people see about you
Your username, your avatar, how long you have been a member, and how many public reviews you have written. Your bottle count is optional — turn it off under Settings → Profile, and it disappears from your reviews.
Reviews on a wine you are looking at
A wine's own page carries the community's reviews of that wine and vintage alongside the critic scores, so you can read what members thought before you open your bottle.
Next steps
How to review a wine — writing one in the first place
How to view critic ratings and reviews — the other kind of review on a wine
How to set wine review reminders — a nudge after you drink a bottle