Create your first cellar

Decide what the cellar represents

In SmartCellar, a cellar may be a room, rack, wine fridge, bonded storage account or a particular collection. Start with the place where most of your bottles are kept.

Give it a name you will recognise at a glance. Home cellar, Kitchen wine fridge or Bonded storage will still make sense when the collection grows.

Create the cellar

Open Cellars, choose New Cellar, then enter the name and any helpful location note.

1. 1. Choose a clear cellar name.
2. 2. Add a short description if someone else may help to manage it.
3. 3. Set it as the default cellar if most new bottles should be added there.
4. 4. Save it, then add a handful of bottles before entering the rest of the collection.

Add a few bottles first

Add a small batch and see whether your locations match the way you look for wine in the rack. It is much easier to settle on a naming system now than to change hundreds of records later.

• Use separate cellars when bottles have different owners or access arrangements.
• Use the storage location for the rack, shelf, case, fridge or bin within a cellar.
• Archive a cellar when you no longer want it in your everyday views.