@LukeH - We decided to go with a warm white gradient. I think it looks pretty sharp, but I’d love your feedback. If anyone else out there has thoughts I’d love to hear them too.
Thanks,
Nick
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the section in wine details for community notes is just displaying the number of CT notes (e.g., “44” in screenshot) instead of actual content, is that intended behavior?
purchase history also does not appear to be importing directly - price shows up but not dates, retailers, etc.
Hey Mark — great catches, both of these were real bugs and both are now fixed.
The community notes issue: CT’s export stores the count of community reviews (e.g. “44 people reviewed this”) in a column that we were mistakenly treating as the note text itself. That’s been corrected — the number will no longer appear in the notes field. I’ve also run a repair across all accounts to clear those values out of existing imports, so you shouldn’t see it on any of your wines anymore.
On purchase history: this was our mistake — date and retailer were being dropped in the early version of the importer. That’s fixed now, but unfortunately the data didn’t come through on your original import so it’s not there to recover. If you’re willing to share your CT inventory export we’ll handle the whole process — clean out the existing data and do a fresh import so everything comes across correctly this time.
Appreciate you flagging these — exactly the kind of feedback that makes the product better. Let me know if anything else looks off.
Thank you,
Nick
Hi Nick,
I have a few more notes:
- The light mode/dark mode is a great idea, and I find light mode to be better for my eyes. However, whenever I click into help&docs or account&settings, it immediately goes back to dark mode. Is there any way to maintain the same light mode setting there?
- When I check out a bottle in my collection, it would be great if there was a button directed to checking that bottle out on other sites such as winesearcher.
- The vintage charts look much better now. Thank you.
- When importing from Cellartracker, I found issues importing wines that were pending delivery. They imported directly into my collection, and showed 1 bottle regardless how many were pending delivery.
Best,
Daniel
Also, something I was interested in was whether we could import the Wines consumed in CellarTracker onto CellarAged?
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
Thank you — really appreciate the detailed feedback, all four points were addressed in today’s update.
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Light mode now persists correctly on the Help & Docs and Account & Settings pages. Both pages were defaulting to a dark background regardless of your theme setting — that’s fixed.
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A Wine-Searcher button now appears directly in the bottle detail panel alongside Consume, Edit, and Discover. One tap opens the wine on Wine-Searcher in a new tab.
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Glad the vintage charts are working better for you.
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Pending delivery wines now import correctly — they’ll appear in your Incoming section with the right quantity rather than landing in your main collection as a single bottle.
And yes — consumed wine import from CellarTracker is now live. You’ll find a dedicated Consumed Wines drop zone in the Import modal alongside the existing Tasting Notes and Private Notes zones and a link in the side panel called ‘Import CT Consumed’. Just export from cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=Consumed and drop the file in. Your full consumption history will be imported with dates and notes preserved.
Thanks again for taking the time — this kind of feedback is exactly what makes the product better.
Nick
A few suggestions for the Vintage Chart:
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Sticky header. The header should persist as you scroll down. Without it, you lose track of which vintage year you’re looking at, and the “my cellar” toggle disappears when it could be useful.
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Collection highlight visibility. I still have trouble spotting vintages I own. The border indicating a wine is in my collection is either too thin or the color doesn’t have enough contrast. Worth checking against colorblindness accessibility standards.
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Vintage drill-down with linked wines. When you tap into a specific vintage year, it would be useful to see the wines you own for that vintage, with each one linked directly to its entry in the collection view.
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Sub-appellation data not pulling from collection. When I tap “Napa Valley,” it opens a sub-appellation view, but every appellation shows zero wines, even though I have bottles that should map to them. Looks like it’s not reading my collection data for that view.
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Collection not mapping to certain regions. For some regions, the chart doesn’t reflect what’s in my collection at all. Barolo and Barbaresco are a clear example: toggling “my cellar” shows I have wines in that region, but none of the vintages show a border, and hovering over vintages I know I own shows no bottles. Not sure if this is isolated to Piedmont or affects other regions too.
Thanks for the detailed feedback, Luke — all five addressed.
The top block — title, legend, My cellar toggle, region selector, and year labels — now stays pinned as you scroll, both on desktop and mobile. Year labels also slide with the cells horizontally on narrow viewports, so the “20” above a cell is always the “20” above that cell.
On border visibility: brighter gold, plus a dual-ring shadow (dark inner ring for contrast on the cream cells, warm outer glow for dark ones), and a small gold corner wedge in the top-right of owned cells as a shape cue that reads even in monochrome.
Tapping a cell that has your wines opens a drill-down modal listing every bottle for that region and vintage — producer, name, quantity, bin — each one linking through to the collection.
The Napa sub-appellation issue and the Barolo/Barbaresco issue turned out to be the same root cause. The chart was only reading the Region field, and parent rows weren’t aggregating their children. Both fixed: region matching now walks Appellation → Subregion → Region, and parent rows fold in bottles from all their children. So Oakville bottles show up on Napa, Barbaresco on Barolo, Yamhill-Carlton on Willamette, and so on.
Thanks again!
Nick
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One feature I’d find useful: some way to distinguish wines that are merely “ready” from those that are past peak and need to be prioritized. Right now the vast majority of my collection falls into the “Drink Now” window, but that bucket spans everything from bottles just entering their window to ones on the way out. I want to focus on the tail end first, and the current groupings don’t make that easy.
I also noticed the category names differ between the filter menu and the collection view, which is a bit confusing. The filter uses “Past Window” but the collection dashboard shows “Past Peak.” To me those mean different things: past peak suggests the wine is still within its drinking window but declining and should be prioritized, while past window means you’ve missed the ideal timeframe entirely and really need to move on it. If the app intends those as the same category, it might be worth aligning the labels. If they’re meant to be distinct, surfacing that distinction more clearly would be really useful.
Is finer granularity within the “Drink Now” cohort something on your roadmap? I understand drinking windows are inherently imprecise. CellarTracker’s windows get plenty of criticism despite the volume of user input behind them, so I get that this may not be worth prioritizing.
Thanks Luke — good feedback, and you’re right on both counts.
The “Past Peak” label was a real misnomer — every surface using it is actually testing whether the drinking window has closed, not whether the wine is past its peak year. Those are different states: a wine can be past peak (declining) but still comfortably in window, or past window entirely. I renamed every user-facing instance to “Past Window” — filter modal, Collection dashboard, Insights, Cellar Map legend, Analytics, Wine detail badges, notifications. The label now matches what the app is actually measuring.
A more robust system with proper peak/plateau granularity is on the roadmap, but I want to build it on real signal rather than invented math. Every drinking window in the app — whether from CellarTracker import, manual entry, or AI estimate — ultimately boils down to start/end/peak as individual years. Slicing that into approaching/at/past zones without real data to calibrate against would just be dressing up a guess with more decimals. As the beta grows and I have enough user overrides and consumption feedback to calibrate against, I’ll revisit.
In the meantime, the Vintage Charts give you a useful cross-reference. Each vintage cell carries its own drink/wait/past status based on the vintage’s broader window, so you can triangulate: if your bottle is in window but the vintage overall is near its tail, that’s a signal to prioritize. Not the same as a per-bottle plateau indicator, but useful for the case you’re describing.
Appreciate you pushing on it.
Nick
I just checked in on CellarAged and noticed I do not have a sticky header in the Vintage Charts. Was it removed, or never added?
Also, is there a way when filtering your collection to export the list of wines you have filtered? I only see the option to print labels.
Hey Luke,
The sticky header in Vintage Charts was patched but got commented out at some point. Fixed now!
The filtered export was just shipped based on your feedback. Great idea! You’ll see an Export button in the Collection header that exports exactly what you’ve filtered — including the search criteria in the filename so you always know what’s in the file.
Thanks for staying on top of this — it genuinely helps.
Nick