Your ready-to-drink wines
Choose from wines that are ready for dinner, or revisit a bottle you have been saving. Filter by drinking window to see what is ready and where it is stored.
See which wines are ready to drink
Find bottles that are ready to enjoy and follow the ones you’re keeping. Your tasting notes help you judge how each wine is developing.
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- Bottles
- 27
- Wines
- 6
- Ready to drink
- 13
- Purchase cost
- £818
- Paid per bottle
- £38
- Bought from
- Local wine merchant
- Purchased
- 16 November 2020
Grapes
Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon
Your drinking window
2025–2036
Last tasting · 30 August 2026
Lovely with the roast lamb. Dark plum fruit, cedar and a savoury finish. More expressive after half an hour in the glass; save the next for Sunday lunch.
What the last bottle tells you
Was it still rather closed, beginning to fade or drinking beautifully? A short note will help you decide when to open the others.
Reminders for wines you’re saving
Choose email reminders as wines approach their drinking windows, or a weekly summary of your cellar. It’s a useful nudge to revisit a bottle you’ve tucked away.
Adjusting your own window
Perhaps you love the freshness of younger wine, or prefer the savoury complexity that comes with age. Set your own drinking dates to reflect your taste and how the last bottle showed.
Learning from a bottle
Suppose a wine has a suggested window of 2026–2032, but the bottle you open seems too young for your taste. You could set your own window to begin in 2027 and note why. Keep the note for the remaining bottles.
When storage is uncertain
If you do not know how a wine was stored, note that in its record. A suggested end year cannot tell you the condition of the bottle.
A reminder to check a bottle
In Settings, choose reminders for wines approaching their window, ready to drink or nearing its end. A wine-ready reminder names the wine and vintage and links to your ready-to-drink wines. For example: Château Grand Corbin-Despagne 2016 is ready to enjoy. This is an illustrative reminder, based on the sample cellar’s dates; drinking windows are estimates you can adjust.
Questions & answers
What is a wine drinking window?
It is a guide to the years when a wine is likely to be at its best. How it has been stored and whether you prefer younger or more mature wine will make a difference.
Can I override a generated drinking window?
Yes. If a bottle seems too young for your taste, you can give the others more time. Set your own dates and keep a note of how the wine tasted.
How does this help day to day?
You can see which wines are ready to enjoy, including bottles you may have forgotten about. Your tasting notes can help you choose between them.
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