A Modern Cellar Management Solution

WINE TALK
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Update — Beta Round 2 is still open, and here’s what’s been built since March:

Grand Cru tier still free during beta: [CellarAged — Fine Wine Cellar Management App]

The first round of feedback was genuinely useful and drove a lot of development. Here’s what’s new:

AI sommelier got a full rebuild. It now has direct access to your cellar data through structured query tools — it can actually look up what you have, filter by region or producer, check drink windows, and reason about your specific bottles. It’s not summarizing a data dump anymore; it’s querying your cellar

Analytics — Cellar, Composition, and Verticals. Three dedicated tabs giving you a real picture of your collection: what you have and when it drinks, how it breaks down by region, variety, and producer, and vertical views across your holdings. Clickable filtering throughout so you can drill into any slice.

Cellar Health Score. A single score summarizing your cellar’s drink window distribution — how much is too young, in window, peaking, or past peak.

Decanted — social palate matching. Connect with other collectors whose palate profiles align with yours. Still early but functional.

Insurance valuation export. Generates a formatted report of your cellar’s estimated value for insurance purposes.

Mobile UX overhaul. The add-wine flow was rebuilt from the ground up — registry-first, two-phase, fast on a phone. Wine detail view improved. Works properly on phone now actually means it.

Structured tasting journal is live with public/private notes, aroma/palate/body/finish fields, attached to each bottle.

Bulk import from CellarTracker is cleaner and handles edge cases that were breaking before.

If you joined the first beta and hit rough edges, a lot of them are gone. If you’ve been waiting — now’s a good time.

Thank you, Nick

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Is there an app yet?

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I’m in development for both Apple and Android apps — they will be added to their respective app stores very soon.

The site was built as a Progressive Web App though, meaning it can be installed and added to your Home Screen as an app:

iPhone: Open CellarAged.com in Safari > Login > Ellipses in the lower right > Share > View More > Add to Home Screen

Android: Open CellarAged.com in Chrome > Login > Ellipses in the upper right > Scroll to the bottom > Add to Home Screen

— Installable: Users can add the site to their home screen without an app store, launching it in a standalone window.
— Offline Functional: Service workers allow the site to work without internet or on low-quality networks.
— Fast & Responsive: Built to load quickly and adapt to any screen size (mobile, tablet, desktop).

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Is “Pro” the “Reserve” or “Grand Cru” level, or "something totally different?

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Sorry, I’ll upgrade to Reserve.

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Nick, the cellar map alone would get many to switch. I still can’t believe CT has no concept of where a bottle physically lives; I’m cross-referencing a spreadsheet every time I go to pull something, which kind of defeats the purpose. And showing drink windows as a timeline instead of one static field makes way more sense for actually deciding what to open next.

I was poking around the pricing page and one thing jumped out: 50 label photos and 5 shareable links on the Sommelier tier feels tight for a plan that supports up to 500 bottles. That’s probably your biggest user segment, and I’d guess a lot of them will hit those caps fast and feel nickel-and-dimed rather than motivated to upgrade. Might be worth revisiting those limits before they become a friction point in reviews.

Curious how the CT import handles edge cases too (older entries, custom fields, that kind of thing). I evaluate tools constantly and tend to send walls of text about UX friction and weird bugs rather than “looks good,” so if you’re handing out Grand Cru access for early testers, I’m happy to put it through its paces. Collection-size, though, I’d only be in the middle group.

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Quick note:
I attempted to create a free account to check it out, and got this error. The error does not indicate what failed. The password seemed to meet the requirements.

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Maybe a stupid question since I’m not super familiar with CellarTracker. I’m having trouble finding where on CellarTracker to download My Cellar inventory. Is that on the app or desktop?

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Hi Larry,

After you login to CellarTracker, you can use the link below to get to the page with the Export feature.

https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp

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Thank you

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I just got a big wine fridge finally so I am looking into different tracker options atm. Good timing! Here are some initial thoughts and bugs I found.

I would like the visual view of the cellar to look better. Specifically i don’t like that i have to hover over each bottle to see the name, and click on the bottles to see the back row

add option to just add the year/month when adding a bottle, remembering the exact day and month can be annoying

when i try and edit a bottle and save it makes me re fill out all of the bottle info

every time I add a bottle It adds it twice

Wont let me import a whole folder or gallery of label photos at once

Tried to us the AI and it immediately ‘encountered and error’

got this error a few times when adding bottles, I think its from not having a price, which I would like to be able to skip adding. I dont care too much about the value of my bottles they are all getting opened!:
Failed to save: Function addDoc() called with invalid data. deleteField() cannot be used with set() unless you pass {merge:true} (found in field purchaseLots in document users/GydZ3sgdG5cfyaU0dGTPN8khsPW2/wines/jrumWwyGtcMZ6FOhETwP)

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Hi Larry,
After you login to CellarTracker, you can use the link below to get to the page with the Export function.

https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp

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Thank you

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I’d be happy to unlock a Grand Cru membership in exchange for a thorough report.
I’ve added some additional error reporting to the sign-up process, hopefully that help diagnose the sign-up issue.

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Hi Nick:

What fields does it import from CT? All of them, including bottle notes, purchase notes, tasting notes, tasting stories, purchase info, consumption info, privately added professional tasting notes, etc?

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I tried to import my cellar to put it through the paces, but it appears the import only supports 5,000 bottles? Do I need to break it up into multiple files?

I came up with a pretty decent scheme to organize things so that I have a pretty good idea where they are, but with boxes on top of boxes, multiple layers deep, a 3D map is what I’ve been dreaming about building for years.

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Found it. I don’t use the full version of CellarTracker, just mobile and the app. Maybe reference the export location on the full site?

I do have some feedback:

When adding a bottle to collection it’s hard to change the default quantity of 1. You can’t delete the 1. You have to double tap on it to delete it.

Searching my collection by producer brings up the tiles but it doesn’t show the name of the wine. Example Realm The Bard shows as a Bordeaux Blend. I would have to know that to find it.

When adding a bottle and I don’t have it in front of me, instead of typing all of the information manually, Is it possible to add a search feature where you can select the wine by producer? Example search Realm and have the list of their wines come up. CellarTracker does this and makes it much easier.

The Drink Now tile. How do I interact with it to see what those bottles are?

I’ll explore more tonight.

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We pull over as much as CellarTracker will give us. For each wine that comes in, you’ll get your full inventory details — producer, vintage, region, varietal, bottle size, bin location, purchase price and date, drink window, and all your critic scores (JG, WA, WS, and the CT community average).

If you include the optional Notes and Private Notes exports, we’ll also bring over your personal tasting notes — including multiple tasting entries for the same wine, kept in order with their dates — along with your private annotations and your most recent tasting date.

A few things we weren’t able to get to, not because we didn’t try, but because CellarTracker simply doesn’t include them in any of their exports:

  • Your consumption history (bottles opened, when, how many)
  • Per-bottle and per-purchase notes
  • Tasting stories
  • Critic notes you’ve privately saved to a wine
  • Label photos
  • Wishlist items

If any of that data is important to you, we’d recommend keeping CellarTracker accessible as a reference while you settle in here. We know it represents years of your notes and history, and we don’t take that lightly.

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How long does the import take? The wheel has been spinning for a while now and I’m wondering if it’s because I signed up for the free account but imported 516 bottles.

EDIT: I stopped it and it appears to have imported most of my bottles. Do get some “Unknown” items, but unsure if that’s from how they were in CT or if I just cut off the import too soon.

EDIT 2: AI not functional

EDIT 3: When I cut off the import, it showed my bottles. I was able to use the site and look at them briefly. But then when I logged out and back in they were gone.

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Eric — great timing, and this is exactly the kind of feedback that’s useful. Good news: most of what you hit is already fixed in the latest build.

Cellar map visual — overhauled completely. Bottles now show lying on their side with the label facing you (like a real rack), producer name, wine name, vintage, region, and a drink window progress bar all visible directly on the bottle without hovering. Back rows are visible without clicking — depth rows 2 and 3 show inline below the front row. Click any row number to open the full 3D shelf view.

Purchase date flexibility — the date field now accepts just a year (2022), year/month (03/2022), or a full date. No more hunting for the exact day.

Edit re-fill issue — fixed. Country, region, and varietal now pre-populate correctly when editing, including wines imported from CellarTracker where the values don’t match the standard dropdown lists.

Double-add — fixed with a submit guard that prevents the form firing twice on mobile.

Bulk photo import — the Gallery button now supports multi-select. Pick a whole batch of label photos at once and it walks through them one by one, auto-advancing after each save.

The deleteField() / purchaseLots error — fixed. Price is now fully optional — leaving it blank no longer causes any errors.

AI error — still investigating that one. If you hit it again, what were you asking it?

Appreciate you taking the time to write it up properly.

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Andrew — the 5,000 bottle limit is gone. I’ve bumped your account to Reserve tier, so you’re clear to import the full thing. The limit is now 50,000 rows per file, so no need to split anything.

The boxes-on-boxes situation is exactly what the depth dimension in the cellar map is for. Each rack supports up to 8 layers deep, so you can model stacked boxes directly — front layer is what’s accessible, back layers are buried. The map shows all depths inline so you can see what’s back there without having to physically dig.

Would love to hear how it handles your setup once you’re imported — a collection organized that carefully is a good stress test.

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How is the search function, Nick? Search function on CellarTracker is awful and is a sole reason I don’t use it any more.