Wine Glass Emoji
U+1F377:wine_glass:About Wine Glass 🍷
Wine Glass () is part of the Food & Drink group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E0.6. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.
Works in iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, and every app that supports Unicode.
Often associated with alcohol, bar, beverage, and 8 more keywords.
Meaning varies across cultures, see cultural notes below.
Scroll down for the full story: meaning, trends, combos, and more.
How it looks
What does it mean?
A stemmed glass filled with red wine. Approved in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as WINE GLASS, it was meant to represent wine as a category rather than a specific varietal, which is why the glass is red and there is still no white-wine counterpart (more on that below).
🍷 does three jobs. It says 'I'm drinking wine.' It says 'I'm the kind of person who drinks wine.' And on platforms like TikTok it says 'this is elegant,' sometimes sincerely, sometimes as a joke. The global wine market was roughly $463 billion in 2024, so whatever the emoji is doing culturally, it's hitched to an actual trillion-dollar lifestyle economy.
If 🍺 is after work, 🥂 is a toast, and 🍾 is 'we did it,' 🍷 is the one you send when nothing in particular is happening. It's a shorthand for the kind of evening where the vibe matters more than the event.
🍷 is a mood emoji dressed up as a product emoji. People use it to signal 'wine o'clock' (added to Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2015 and defined as 'an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine'), wine-themed weekdays (#WineWednesday has 140,000+ Instagram results and its own ritual), and whole identity scripts like 'wine mom' and 'wine aunt.'
On TikTok, 🍷 got a second life paired with 🗿. The hashtag #🗿🍷 crossed 539 million views by January 2023 as shorthand for 'fino señores' — fine gentlemen, sigma male content, anything meant to read as sophisticated, usually with tongue in cheek. The same emoji that signaled tired-mom solidarity on Facebook in 2015 signals Patrick Bateman cosplay on TikTok in 2025.
Platform-wise: Instagram leans earnest ('date night 🍷🕯️'), X leans ironic ('reading theory 🗿🍷'), TikTok leans performative ('fino señores' edits set to Toshifumi Hinata's 'Reflections'), and LinkedIn uses it sparingly for 'celebrating a work win' posts.
Usually one of three things: 'I'm drinking wine,' 'it's a wine kind of evening,' or 'I'm feeling sophisticated / elegant / relaxed.' With the 🗿🍷 TikTok meme, it also carries an ironic 'fine gentlemen' sigma-male meaning, depending on the platform and audience.
The alcohol emojis and what they mean
What it means from...
Likely an invitation disguised as a vibe. 'Wine later?' or a photo of a single glass at 9pm reads as open-door flirting rather than a casual update.
Usually 'tonight is ours.' A 🍷 text mid-afternoon from a partner is a date-night signal, not a grocery list item.
Solidarity and plans. 'Same 🍷' answers anything from a rough day to a good gossip. Group chat shorthand for 'come over.'
Older relatives use it literally ('enjoying a glass'). In queer and millennial circles, 'the fun aunt' identity, often sent by the cool family member avoiding family drama.
End-of-week exhale or the tactful version of 'what a day.' Safer than 🍻 for work chats; reads as a grown-up vent, not a party invite.
From a crush, often a soft flirty signal — 'wine later?' with romantic undertones. From a partner, a date-night cue. From a friend, solidarity or an invitation to hang out. It reads less horny than 🥂 (which is a toast) and less casual than 🍺. Context and time of day matter most.
Emoji combos
Alcoholic drink emojis on Google Trends (normalized, 2020-2025)
Origin story
🍷 was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010, riding the first big batch of emoji standardized for international use. Its original proposals — L2/07-257 (2007) and L2/09-026 (2009) — grouped it with other beverage symbols. The Unicode Consortium picked red because it was the most recognizable wine color, and the character was named 'Wine Glass' rather than 'Red Wine' so it could stand in for wine in general.
That decision haunted a California winery. In 2018, Kendall-Jackson submitted a 19-page proposal asking Unicode for a white-wine emoji, arguing that white wine now outsells red in many U.S. markets. Unicode turned it down in 2019. The reason: approving a white-wine variant would force the consortium to consider color variants for every beverage and object in the catalog, an endless road. Red wine stays. Everyone drinking pinot grigio is just going to have to make do.
Design history
- 2010Approved in Unicode 6.0 as U+1F377 WINE GLASS↗
- 2015Emoji 1.0 published; 🍷 included. 'Wine o'clock' added to Oxford Dictionaries Online.↗
- 2018Kendall-Jackson submits 19-page white-wine emoji proposal to Unicode↗
- 2019Unicode Technical Committee shelves the white-wine emoji to avoid a color-variant precedent↗
- 2022🗿🍷 'fino señores' meme begins on Brazilian TikTok (@peiranoo) and spreads globally↗
- 2023#🗿🍷 hashtag passes 539 million views on TikTok↗
- 202549% of Americans say they're trying to drink less alcohol, the steepest sober-curious surge on record — yet 🍷 usage on social media remains steady, which researchers read as 'aesthetic decoupling' from literal consumption↗
Around the world
Portugal
🍷 is the most 'lived-in' emoji. Portugal drinks 61.1 liters of wine per person per year, more than any country on earth. The emoji reads as 'dinner,' not 'treat.'
Italy / France
42.7 and 41.5 liters per capita respectively. 🍷 is everyday. Bringing it up in a text carries almost no celebratory weight; it's the equivalent of an American texting 'coffee.'
Japan
Wine imports grew for two decades before plateauing in the 2020s. 🍷 reads as Western and upscale; when Japanese users want to signal 'drinks with friends,' 🍶 or 🍺 are more common.
Brazil
Home of the #🗿🍷 'fino señores' meme, which started on Portuguese-language TikTok in 2022 and gave the emoji its biggest ironic upgrade.
United States
Only 11.8 liters per capita, but the emoji punches far above its drinking weight thanks to wine mom / wine aunt discourse. Millennials just overtook Boomers as the largest wine-drinking cohort (31% vs 26%).
Nordic countries
Very high wine emoji usage relative to literal wine volume. High posting culture plus long dark winters plus 'hygge'-style domestic content makes 🍷 a cozy signal more than a drinking one.
It's the 'fino señores' or 'fine gentlemen' meme, started on Brazilian TikTok in 2022 and now used to label content as elegant, sophisticated, or sigma-male — often as a knowing joke. The hashtag passed 539 million views on TikTok by January 2023.
Yes, historically. Researchers documented 🍷 as a core marker of #winemom Instagram culture in the 2010s. That meaning has since expanded — queer creators reclaimed it as 'wine aunt' around 2023, and TikTok's fino señores meme pulled it toward men's content too. 🍷 is now a shared identity emoji rather than a mom-specific one.
Portugal drinks the most wine per capita (61.1 liters/year, almost six times the US rate), but social-media usage of 🍷 is disproportionately high in Nordic countries, the US, UK, and Brazil — places where the emoji does more cultural work than volume work.
Wine consumption per capita by country (2024)
Often confused with
🥂 is two glasses mid-toast, which makes it a celebration emoji. 🍷 is a single glass, which makes it a mood. You toast with 🥂 at a wedding; you wind down with 🍷 on a Tuesday.
🥂 is two glasses mid-toast, which makes it a celebration emoji. 🍷 is a single glass, which makes it a mood. You toast with 🥂 at a wedding; you wind down with 🍷 on a Tuesday.
🍾 is the cork flying. It's the moment something's announced. 🍷 is the slow sip after.
🍾 is the cork flying. It's the moment something's announced. 🍷 is the slow sip after.
🍸 is a cocktail — the martini glass shape reads as 'night out.' 🍷 reads as 'night in.'
🍸 is a cocktail — the martini glass shape reads as 'night out.' 🍷 reads as 'night in.'
Some people use 🍇 to mean wine when a 🍷 feels too on-the-nose. 🍇 is the raw material; 🍷 is the finished product. Wine-industry marketers use 🍇 for vineyard content.
Some people use 🍇 to mean wine when a 🍷 feels too on-the-nose. 🍇 is the raw material; 🍷 is the finished product. Wine-industry marketers use 🍇 for vineyard content.
🍷 is a single glass of red wine and reads as a mood (relaxing, dinner, date night). 🥂 is two glasses mid-toast and reads as a celebration. You send 🥂 at a wedding or promotion. You send 🍷 on a random Tuesday.
Caption ideas
Who drinks wine in the US? Generational share (2024)
Fun facts
- •The wine glass emoji is officially named WINE GLASS, not RED WINE, even though every vendor draws it red. That naming choice is why white-wine advocates lost their 2019 fight — Unicode views 🍷 as generic.
- •Kendall-Jackson's 19-page white-wine proposal to Unicode in 2018 was one of the longest single-emoji proposals ever submitted by a commercial brand. It was rejected the next year.
- •'Wine o'clock' officially entered Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2015, beating 'adulting' by a year.
- •Portugal drinks 61.1 liters of wine per person per year, almost six times the US rate. If emoji usage tracked liters, 🍷 would be a Portuguese emoji.
- •The #🗿🍷 'fino señores' TikTok meme had 539M views by January 2023 and kept growing. It's arguably the most-viewed thing any single-drink emoji has anchored.
- •A 2021 peer-reviewed study in Maternal & Child Health Journal analyzed 🍷 on Instagram and concluded that #winemom content 'normalizes images and meanings of liberated motherhood' with measurable effects on how other moms perceive alcohol norms.
- •The emoji does NOT change color across platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and Meta all render the wine red, despite the generic name.
- •Wine sales drop 36% during Dry January, but the emoji's usage barely dips. Researchers call this 'aesthetic decoupling' — the symbol has outgrown the substance.
- •Millennials became the largest U.S. wine-drinking generation in 2024 (31%), finally overtaking Baby Boomers (26%). The 🍷 emoji moved generations before the drinkers did.
In pop culture
- •Patrick Bateman edits: the most-used clip in the 🗿🍷 sigma meme canon is Bateman in American Psycho sniffing a glass of red. The irony is that Bateman is a villain.
- •The Real Housewives franchises: 🍷 is the unofficial series mascot across every city. Bravo social teams post it constantly around reunion specials.
- •Olivia Pope on Scandal: popular press credits the show with turning oversized red-wine pours into a TV cliché that fed the emoji's 'stressed woman, big glass' association.
- •Carrie Bradshaw rewatches: wine is the fifth character in Sex and the City, and Gen-Z TikTokers caption rewatch clips with 🍷 to signal the specific 'sipping at brunch' mode.
- •Taylor Swift red era marketing: the 2021 re-recording pushed 🍷 into fan communications because the bottle matched the album color palette.
Trivia
For developers
- •🍷 is . Common shortcodes: (Slack, Discord, GitHub, most Unicode implementations).
- •Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 — universally supported on every modern platform since 2010. No FE0F variant needed.
- •Renders red across every major vendor despite the generic 'Wine Glass' name. If you need white wine, you're out of luck — the 2018 Kendall-Jackson proposal was rejected in 2019.
Kendall-Jackson submitted a 19-page proposal in 2018 asking Unicode for one. The Unicode Technical Committee declined in 2019 because approving a color variant for wine would open the door to variants for every beverage, animal, and object in the catalog. 🍷 is officially 'wine glass,' generic by design.
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What does 🍷 mean to you first?
Select all that apply
- Wine Glass Emoji — Emojipedia (emojipedia.org)
- U+1F377 Wine Glass — Codepoints.net (codepoints.net)
- Fino Señores / 🗿🍷 — Know Your Meme (knowyourmeme.com)
- White-wine emoji rejected — Slate (slate.com)
- Kendall-Jackson's 19-page proposal — TODAY (today.com)
- Wine Mom — Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- #sendwine Instagram study — PMC / Maternal & Child Health Journal (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Wine consumption by country — OIV 2024 report (oiv.int)
- Which countries drink the most wine — Decanter (decanter.com)
- Wine market size — Straits Research (straitsresearch.com)
- Millennials overtake Boomers — Wine Market Council (winemarketcouncil.com)
- Wine o'clock in Oxford Dictionaries — Winerist (magazine.winerist.com)
- Beer/wine/spirits drinking slang — PUNCH (punchdrink.com)
- Dry January economic impact — NA Beer Club (nabeerclub.com)
- Chrissy Teigen $13,000 wine story — Slate (slate.com)
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