BurgReport: Fine Wine Pricing Intelligence
A live pricing-intelligence tool that aggregates fragmented market data into fast, usable benchmarks for fine-wine buyers, sommeliers, and retailers.
The Business Problem
Fine-wine pricing is fragmented and slow to evaluate. Buyers often have to cross-reference multiple merchant listings, inconsistent critic scores, and scattered vintage guidance just to get to a usable pricing view. That slows decision-making for collectors, sommeliers, and retailers, and increases the odds of weak pricing decisions. BurgReport was built to compress that fragmented research into a single benchmark view that can be used in seconds.
What I Built
BurgReport acts as a specialized aggregation and pricing-reference layer for fine wine. It provides:
- Live price snapshots with average, minimum, and maximum retail pricing.
- Merchant-count visibility.
- A seen-price checker to compare an observed price against market benchmarks.
- Normalized critic consensus across major sources.
- Vintage and drinking-window context to make the pricing signal more useful.
Technical Architecture and Constraints
This project was less about model development and more about API reliability, data normalization, and fast search-to-insight UX. Key challenges included:
- Integrating external pricing data cleanly and consistently.
- Normalizing messy third-party data into a usable schema.
- Designing for near-instant utility with no login wall or onboarding friction.
- Keeping the interface readable even when the underlying source data is uneven.
The result is a lightweight, fast interface built to deliver usable pricing context with minimal friction.
Why This Matters
BurgReport proves a different product muscle than Reztrix. It shows:
- Pricing and yield-management intuition.
- Ability to turn messy external data into a usable product.
- Strong low-friction UX instincts.
- Comfort building live tools that depend on external APIs and normalization logic.