Dating for people with opinions about casks

Sherry butt or ex-bourbon. Islay smoke or Speyside fruit. Distillery bottling or independent. Your shelf is a tasting note about you.

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How it works for whisky lovers

Import from Whiskybase or Distiller. Add your collection, wishlist and ratings, and we read your flavour profile. Nothing about how much you drink is ever shown. All opt-in, all revocable.

A bottle has a region, a distillery, a cask type, an age, a peat level, and a bottler
Matching happens at every level: shared bottles, shared regions, shared cask and peat preferences
Ratings act as sentiment: a 92-point Springbank and a 70-point one are different signals
Wishlist overlap is a forward-looking signal: the bottle you are both hunting is a date waiting to happen

Niche overlap > mainstream overlap

Both own a supermarket Speyside 12? Scotch exports were worth £5.4bn and 1.4 billion bottles in 2024. That is a shelf, not a signal. Both chasing Campbeltown, a whole whisky region with just three working distilleries? That is taste.

Mainstream

Speyside 12 year old

In most collections → NicheWeight 0.18

Niche

Campbeltown single malt

Rare in collections → NicheWeight 0.92

The five Scotch regions are Campbeltown, Highlands, Islay, Lowlands and Speyside. NicheWeights above are illustrative; real ones come from rarity across Affinity Atlas collections.

What gets scored

Shared bottles weighted by how rarely they appear in collections. Whiskybase lists more than 280,000 whiskies, so the long tail is real

Region profile - Islay, Campbeltown, Lowlands, Highlands, Speyside, plus Japan, Ireland, Taiwan and the American craft scene

Cask preferences - sherry, ex-bourbon, port, wine finishes, virgin oak

Peat tolerance - unpeated to heavily peated, discussed as phenol parts per million. A peat-head and a peat-hater can still match, but the system will tell you

Bottler philosophy - official bottlings vs independent bottlers, cask strength vs reduced, collecting vs opening

Wishlist overlap - shared hunts for the same release

Example match

"You share 14 bottles avg NicheWeight 0.69. Region overlap: Campbeltown (31%), Islay (27%). Both prefer refill sherry over first-fill. Wishlist overlap: 2 independent Glengyle releases. Both rate cask strength higher than reduced, by about 6 points."

Not "you both like whisky." The actual drams. The actual casks. The actual smoke.

Integrations

Whiskybase

Partner access · Collection, wishlist, ratings

Distiller

Partner access · Tasting notes, flavour profiles, scores

Untappd

Live link · Beer check-ins (spirits come from Whiskybase or Q&A)

All opt-in. All revocable. We score taste, never quantity. Please drink responsibly. Live links use an official API you authorise; file imports use the data export the service gives you; partner access needs the service's agreement; anything else you add by hand.

Keep reading: Affinity Atlas for Craft Drinkers · How Niche Weighting Actually Works

Affinity Atlas is in development

No real matching is live yet. If you want someone who will split a sample set and argue about the finish - get in touch.

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