Features

Cellars, racks and positions

Your storage is described the way it physically exists. A cellar holds racks, a rack holds positions, and every bottle sits in one. When you want the 2016 Shiraz you know which rack to open rather than shifting three cases to find out it was drunk last winter.

• Multiple cellars, for a home rack and offsite or commercial storage
• Named racks within each cellar, with a default rack for quick entry
• Bottle positions so a specific wine can be located, not hunted for
• Bulk moves when a batch of wine shifts to another rack or cellar

Peak drinking windows

This is the reason Vinocellar exists. Each wine carries the first and last year it should be drunk, and every listing is colour-coded against today's date: still developing, ready now, or past it. Wine you paid for gets drunk when it is worth drinking.

• Record a peak range per wine, not a single guessed year
• Under-peak, at-peak and over-peak status shown at a glance
• A peak report ordering the whole cellar by how soon it needs drinking
• A summary chart of how many bottles peak in each coming year

Label scanning

Entering a case of wine by hand is the reason most cellar records stop being accurate. Photograph the label instead: Vinocellar reads it and fills in the winery, wine name, region, vintage and grape variety for you to confirm. The photo stays attached to the bottle.

Rack audits

Records drift. An audit walks a single rack and reconciles it against what is really there - photograph the rack, and Vinocellar ticks off the bottles it recognises, adds ones it has no record of, and flags the gaps.

• Audit one rack at a time, so a stocktake fits in a spare half hour
• Bottles found beyond your records are added rather than ignored
• Missing bottles are moved into drinking history, not silently deleted
• An audit in progress can be cancelled and fully reverted
• A summary at the end shows exactly what the audit changed

Tasting notes

Record appearance, nose and palate along with a rating, so next time you are deciding whether to buy another case you are reading what you actually thought rather than trusting a memory of it. Notes stay with the wine after the last bottle is gone.

Cellar temperatures

Log temperature readings against each cellar over time. If a wine disappoints, the storage history is on record instead of guesswork, and a cellar drifting warm shows up before it costs you a vintage.

Reports

• Peak period - everything you own, ordered by how soon it needs drinking
• Summary - bottles by peak year and a breakdown of the cellar by grape variety
• History - every bottle drunk, when, and what you thought of it

Wine lists are searchable and filterable across winery, region, vintage, grape, rack and value, so a question like "what Barossa reds peak before 2030" takes one filter rather than a spreadsheet.

Costs and values

Each bottle records what it cost and what it is currently worth. For a cellar built over decades that difference matters, whether you are insuring it, deciding what to sell, or working out whether that case was a good idea.