Honest selection
Every batch is blind-tasted by Adrian and a rotating panel. If it doesn't earn the code, it doesn't ship.
A modern wine catalog coded by variety. Every bottle gets a shape, a batch number, and nothing to hide.
Traditional wine selling hides behind centuries-old stories. We don't. Every bottle in the SIP C0DE catalog is here because it earned its place — and we'll show you exactly how.
Every batch is blind-tasted by Adrian and a rotating panel. If it doesn't earn the code, it doesn't ship.
12 geometric codes. One shape and color per variety. Find what you like by sight, not by jargon.
Every bottle carries a batch number. Scan it, see the producer, the harvest, the panel notes. No fog.
Adrian Solomon holds a Master's in Oenology and spent two years as Marketing Manager at Purcari, Moldova's most exported winery. Across a decade in the trade he's tasted hundreds of wines — Moldovan, Georgian, Italian, French, Argentine, Spanish — and learned how to tell genuine character from borrowed prestige.
Along the way he's built relationships with several of the 250 international Wine Experts and professional tasters regularly invited to international competition juries — the panel he leans on when a wine needs a second, third, fourth opinion.
SIP C0DE is what's left after he stops being polite about the rest.
"I'd pour any of these for a friend without explaining anything. That's the only test I trust — and the only filter I run a bottle through before it earns a code."
Four steps. No exceptions. About one in nine wines we open ever makes it onto a shelf.
Adrian visits the producer, tastes barrel and bottle samples blind — no labels, no stories, no sentiment.
A rotating panel of 3–5 tasters scores the wine against the variety's tier. Two-thirds must say yes.
Three random bottles from the lot are tasted on different days. Consistency beats peak — both must hold.
The wine earns its shape, its color, its batch number. Label printed, QR linked to the panel notes. Live.
Launching with three carefully selected varieties — one autochthonous red, one international classic, one autochthonous white. The full 12-code roadmap rolls out batch by batch.
"Black cherry, dried herbs, leather."
"Plum, baking spice, soft tannin."
"Pear, white blossom, salt."
We taste at small & mid-size Moldovan wineries. The ones whose wines made the cut, and the ones whose didn't (yet).
Try one bottle, or commit to the curated path. Subscribers get the new batches first, with panel notes attached.
Pick exactly what you want.
Three bottles. One code each. New batch every month.
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Start with the Code Box — three bottles, three codes, three honest tasting notes attached. After one month you'll know what you reach for.
No labels, no producer names, no prices on the table. Three to five tasters score the wine cold against the variety's tier. Two-thirds must say yes.
Charged monthly. Three bottles ship within 48h of charge in Chișinău, 5–7 days elsewhere in Moldova. Pause or cancel from your account in two clicks.
Scan it. You'll see the producer, the harvest year, the panel notes, and the exact lot it came from. No fog.
Not yet. Starting domestic, scaling to the EU once we lock the next three codes.
One email per batch. No marketing, no myths — just the panel notes and a link to buy before it's gone.
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