How to Use the Global Wine Score MCP in VS Code Copilot

Q: How do I share Global Wine Score across my team in VS Code Copilot?

Create a .vscode/mcp.json file in your repository root and add the server details. Once committed, any teammate using VS Code Copilot with the MCP extension will automatically have access to the wine rating tools.

Q: What fields does the search tool return?

When you call searchwinescores, the server returns the normalized score, confidence index, vintage, color, country, and regions. This gives you a complete profile for every matching bottle.

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Query critic ratings directly in VS Code Copilot

The `search_wine_scores` tool connects your VS Code Copilot agent directly to a massive database of normalized critic ratings using this MCP server. When you are writing backend logic or designing schemas for wine apps, you can ask Copilot to fetch real scores. This lets you inspect actual data structures without leaving your editor. Copilot uses these live queries to write accurate validation rules for your code. Because it sees real normalized scores and confidence indexes, it can write precise logic to handle different rating formats.

Share wine data tools across your team with this MCP Server

The `scores_by_country` and `scores_by_color` tools can be shared across your entire development team using a workspace configuration. By committing a configuration file to your Git repository, every developer gets instant access to these wine rating tools through the MCP. This ensures consistency across your team when building regional catalog features. This shared setup eliminates the friction of individual API key management. Vinkius handles the underlying authentication, allowing your team to focus on writing code that parses and displays the wine data.

Analyze vintage quality trends in your workspace

The `scores_by_vintage` tool provides historical context on harvest years directly to your VS Code Copilot chat. If you are building an investment dashboard or a cellar management tool, you can ask Copilot to analyze vintage quality. The agent pulls the top-rated wines for a year and helps you write the aggregation logic. This integration speeds up your prototyping phase. You can test your sorting algorithms against actual, high-quality critic scores instead of generating fake placeholder numbers that don't reflect real-world distribution.

Setup guide

Set up Global Wine Score MCP in VS Code Copilot

Prerequisites

VS Code 1.99 or later with GitHub Copilot extension
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open MCP configuration

Open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P) and run "MCP: Add Server". Select HTTP (Streamable) as the server type. VS Code will create .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace.
2

Add the Global Wine Score MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into your .vscode/mcp.json. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Switch to Agent mode

Open Copilot Chat (Cmd+Shift+I / Ctrl+Shift+I) and switch to Agent mode using the dropdown. MCP tools are only available in Agent mode — they do not appear in Edit or Ask modes.
4

Verify the connection

In the Copilot Chat input, type # to list available tools. You should see the Global Wine Score tools listed. Try asking: "List my recent Global Wine Score transactions" and Copilot will invoke them automatically.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "global-wine-score-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about Global Wine Score MCP in VS Code Copilot

Create a `.vscode/mcp.json` file in your repository root and add the server details. Once committed, any teammate using VS Code Copilot with the MCP extension will automatically have access to the wine rating tools.

Yes, you can ask VS Code Copilot to query the server and format the results as SQL inserts or JSON seeds. It will use the live ratings to populate your local database with accurate wine data.

You need an active Vinkius subscription to access the managed MCP server. Once subscribed, you get a single endpoint token that handles all authentication for your VS Code Copilot workspace.

When you call `search_wine_scores`, the server returns the normalized score, confidence index, vintage, color, country, and regions. This gives you a complete profile for every matching bottle.

All traffic between VS Code Copilot and the database is shielded by Vinkius's secure sandbox environment. Your search parameters and critic score requests are processed in memory and never written to persistent logs, maintaining strict enterprise data privacy.

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