My confusing wine cellar

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Hi all Again I need to pick some brains. I have a rather large wine collection, when I moved in to my current home 2 years ago, I had to rush and to fill the cellar, so as you may imagine my wine is all over the place. What I have decided to do is sort it out, so I'm looking for a program to list my wine and where it's situated in the cellar, the other thing on my wish list is some way of bar coding it, so as I drink it I can delist it.I think it should have a way of adding tasting notes and the price I paid So all you wine lovers and there seems to be a lot of you on here let me know how you store and categorise your wine Wayne
 
Due to the peculiar atmospheric conditions at casa notzac (primarily the evaporative nature of the climate I believe), wine doesn't tend to last long enough to get barcoded .. ;)
 
I think if you provide an open invitiation to the AFF forum there will be a few of us happy to come around and categorize and provide tasting notes.

Then all you would need to do (using the newly developed system of course) is replace all the empty bottles with full ones..... :cool:
 
Well I am old fashioned and it is a pen and cellar book.
Never found it onerous even though i did bring ~ 1200 bottles from the Hunter when i moved here.
Of course I am now in the drinking phase and only 700 left.
 
Well I am old fashioned and it is a pen and cellar book.
Never found it onerous even though i did bring ~ 1200 bottles from the Hunter when i moved here.
Of course I am now in the drinking phase and only 700 left.


That's pretty restrained given you only moved there 3 months ago...... :shock: :D
 
The idea of having Aff around to help sound good, however I only have 7000 or so, and that would not last long with this group, as for pen and paper my penmanship is not that great, I should never have done prescription writing 101 at Uni
 
7,000 in a cellar - now that’s impressive. Are they all neatly stored in racks or do you have cases stacked on top of cases? If the former then I take my hat off to you and it’s no wonder you want to systemise things. :)
 
I use Winebase (WineBase - Wine Cellar Inventory Software) and can highly recommend it. Happy to come over and help you enter the data for a few samples along the way :cool:.

Be aware that it doesn't run under Windows 7 Professional. If using that variant of the OS, you need to install Virtual XP (free from Microsoft and easy to install and run).
 
Hi Homer
they are a mix of racking and box holding, but most are in racks, I have looked Wine base and it looks quite good, anyone wanting to help with the input, I’m happy to open some wine but only after the work is done, as I know it will be all downhill after the second bottle.
 
I am impressed by a number of things:

1) People have enough focus to have a system (my grandfather used a cellar book too)

2) People have thousands of bottle in storage

3) People have restraint enough to keep a bottle long enough to have it registered - mine last very short periods



I bought 12 bottles today (varied types - from $10 a bottle to $30 a bottle - nothing special here folks :( ) and they'll be gone shortly as I have 3 friends visiting from Sydney for the weekend.

I may as well go ahead and exclude TonyHancock and myself from this exercise as it would be pointless cataloguing Dan Murphy's cleanskins ;)

NB: Today's wines were at least proper labels (and though cheap, decent drops) - and it isn't even pay week! :shock:
 
I don't have any more specific suggestions, but I'm wondering if QR codes could be useful here?
 
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Misha I do have a lot of wine and it's a lot of fun going to vineyards around the world to try different wines and buying them but I'm no a wine snob when it comes to wine it's never the cost it's how much you enjoy it and I have had some great wines under 10 dollars then again I have had some great wine The joy of collecting wine is you get to enjoy it with others there would be nothing sader than a wine cellar full of wine at the end of your life.
 
Very well said. :)

I buy cheap wines and sometimes not so cheap, and rarely very expensive bottles. Admittedly I know nothing about wines - I buy the ones I have tried and that I like.

I think your sentiment is perfect. Like hiding all your cash under your mattress and not leaving your house all your life. They can't bury you with it (well I guess they can but what's the point). ... Live life, travel (in J where possible!) and leave this world with a smile...

So... when shall I come round to help you enjoy this wine with others? ;)
 
No pressure of course. We just like to help. :D

You won't even need to provide airfares or accommodation (transport would be good though....) :D

If you do provide airfares please note we would be grateful as long as the fares are eligible for SCs ;)
 
I do plan to start a cellar but it will be in my next life as time is running out at least if I plan to age bottles for fifty years. In the meantime I buy a case a month at auctions, aged for me by someone else for 5-20 years. Much easier to store. And as I try to be flying elsewhere during summer, the Melbourne heat has usually destroyed my wine when I get back.
 
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