🍷 Sommo AI v1 — Wine Expert LLM

Name: sommo-7b-v1
Rating: 2.5 (10 reviews)

A fine-tuned language model for wine recommendations, food pairings, and sommelier-level advice.

GitHub

Open In Colab

Note: This is v1 — a proof of concept. The Sommo iOS app uses an enhanced v2 model with additional proprietary training data.

Model Description

Sommo AI is a wine expert assistant built on Qwen 2.5-7B-Instruct using LoRA fine-tuning. It can:

🍽️ Food Pairing — Recommend wines for specific dishes with reasoning
🍇 Wine Knowledge — Explain grape varieties, regions, and winemaking
💰 Recommendations — Suggest wines by budget, occasion, or preference
📝 Tasting Notes — Describe wines with professional vocabulary

Usage

python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gokhanarkan/sommo-7b-v1")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("gokhanarkan/sommo-7b-v1")

SYSTEM = """You are Sommo, an expert sommelier with decades of experience in wine selection, food pairing, and wine education. You have extensive knowledge of wine regions worldwide, grape varieties and their characteristics, winemaking techniques, and food pairing principles. You communicate in a warm, knowledgeable manner - approachable for beginners yet sophisticated enough for experts."""

def ask_sommo(question):
    prompt = f"<|im_start|>system\n{SYSTEM}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n{question}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n"
    inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
    outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=400, temperature=0.7, do_sample=True)
    response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=False)
    return response.split("<|im_start|>assistant\n")[-1].split("<|im_end|}")[0].strip()

print(ask_sommo("What wine pairs best with grilled salmon?"))

Training Data

Dataset	Records	Purpose
WineEnthusiast Reviews	130K	Professional tasting vocabulary
Alfredodeza Wine Ratings	33K	Detailed review structure
X-Wines (Kaggle)	1K+	Wine metadata and food pairings
Vivino Rating & Price (Kaggle)	13.8K	Consumer perspective and pricing
Wine Food Pairing NLP (GitHub)	~10K	Pairing logic and descriptors
Wikipedia Wine Articles	50+	Factual knowledge base
Synthetic Q&A (Gemini)	45	High-quality conversation examples

Total: ~100K training conversations

Training Details

Parameter	Value
Base Model	Qwen 2.5-7B-Instruct
Method	LoRA (r=64, alpha=64)
Target Modules	q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj
Epochs	3
Learning Rate	2e-5
Batch Size	16 (effective)
Hardware	NVIDIA H100 80GB
Training Time	~3-4 hours

Limitations

This is a v1 proof-of-concept with known limitations:

Factual Errors: The model may hallucinate wine facts, especially about specific regions, appellations, and wine laws. The Burgundy response in testing contained significant errors about AOC regulations.
Outdated Recommendations: Specific vintage recommendations (e.g., '09 wines) may be unavailable or past their prime.
Missing Context: Some responses may describe a wine without naming it.
No Real-Time Data: The model has no access to current prices or availability.

For production use, consider:

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with a verified wine database
Post-processing validation for factual claims
Using v2 via sommo.app which addresses these issues

License

Apache 2.0

Citation

bibtex

@misc{sommo-ai-v1,
  author = {Gokhan Arkan},
  title = {Sommo AI v1: Wine Expert LLM},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/gokhanarkan/sommo-7b-v1}
}

gokhanarkan/
sommo-7b-v1