Today I went to enter a wine I had just purchased. It was not in CellarTracker! I believe I’ve been on CellarTracker since it was launched, iirc this is either the 2nd or 3rd time I’ve had to enter a new wine.
How often does this happen? Happen to you?
Once I entered several hundred German wines in 2004 it mostly stopped happening.
Even aside from work, a lot.
I will run a report tomorrow on how many new wines are created regularly by my team and by users. It will surprise you.
A lot
I’ve added at least one new producer and maybe 3-5 new wines. Not quite up to that level, but got to add a missing designation recently to a wine. Woohoo! Oh, the excitement!
I find it happens frequently when I pick up from my monthly club selection from a local shop whose goal it is, among other things, to provide wines you can’t get at the big box stores. The other time I find it to be the case is shipments from my membership with a winery. They’ll often send unreleased wines or wines only available at the winery.
I’ve had several weird foreign things from trips abroad (mostly tasting notes, not actually buying for my cellar), and it’s a always a great joy and often quite taxing to be the first to enter a new Extradimensional Wine Co Yeah! wine when they release. I’ve done quite a few of those (and hope I got them right!).
I am constantly doing this for the small Washington wineries I frequent. Less recently, since some have become more popular and I’ve ended my quest to visit everyone but it was not uncommon for me to create up to 75-100 new wines per year.
Ditto. I enter new wines all the time for Washington wineries. Many of them source grapes from various vineyards requiring me to enter a new wine when they get a new source for their grapes.
Some friends of ours gifted us with a bottle of Texas made red table wine. I went to CT to enter it and no one had…so I didn’t either, it was so not good.
I also enter new wines reasonably often. However, I tried entering a new wine on the mobile app last week and found out it won’t let you do it, only new vintages. I was not pleased at first, but there’s a button for you to submit new wines, which CT support then enters, and it’s very smooth. I’ve had to add three wines in the past week, and all of them were turned around within 24 hours. I’m never going back, this is much easier.
A lot. I’ve definitely created a few dozen. Maybe even into the hundreds.
I love old wine and have bought portions of a few cellars and I’m often surprised when an old bottle from the 60s, 70s or 80s isn’t in there.
I had to a handful of times a while back.
Not too long ago I told a new winemaker that he needed to add his wines to CT. Else someone like me might do it for him and make a mistake.
That is the same as the old app too…
Jonathan is probably single-handedly responsible for entering more whisky than anyone not working for CT, and maybe even more than them! But whisky is different, with dozens of independent bottlers and thousands of single casks bottled as their own thing. Most people entering whisky likely don’t know what information needs to be included to differentiate, so it’s a good thing JR did a lot of it. Even people who know have different approaches for how to enter - like some people have put the number of bottles in the run in the name of the whisky, which isn’t really necessary. And sometimes it’s really not clear what needs to be included - cask type doesn’t need to be in there UNLESS it’s the only thing that differentiates it from another cask that otherwise is identical. Same with Importer/Bottler, sometimes it’s the most important piece of information.
Thanks to all who replied.
I didn’t think this through before my original post. There are at least a million wines bottled for sale every year. Although the large majority are new vintages of existing wines, that still means tens of thousands of debuts every year.
Thank you! My team works super hard and my goal is always to have these turned around < 24hrs, if not a lot less. It is so nice to see their work is appreciated.
Early on it was more commonplace (like in 2005). Hasn’t happened to me in ages. After looking up when I joined I noticed that CT will almost certainly get to 1,000,000 members in the next few months. Quite a feat over 21 years.
Add a new wine entirely? Rarely, but more often than never.
Add a new vintage for an already-existing wine? A few times per year.
I’ve probably added a dozen wines from whole cloth into CT. New vintages, like Brian said, yup. Happens. Honestly, it’s fantastic to just be able to do this as a user. Another reason why nothing touches CT. The gold standard.