SmartCellar keeps a proper note of every bottle, where it is resting and when it may be worth opening—so you can stop hunting through racks and decide what would be good tonight.
It is simply cellar bookkeeping with wine drinkers in mind. Keep the facts you need, add your own notes and leave the rest until it becomes useful.
The free plan is enough to try SmartCellar with a real rack or case. No card required.
What is in the cellar? Where did I put that case? Which bottles are ready? SmartCellar keeps the quantity, location, vintage and drinking window together, so the record can answer without a search through racks, invoices and old files.
The merchant, price paid, label photograph and a private note may not matter tonight. Years from now, when you find the last bottle of a favourite case, they often do. Keep them beside the wine instead of hoping the invoice is still in your inbox.
A short tasting note can tell you whether the remaining bottles need patience, should be enjoyed soon or deserve replacing. When several wines would suit, Cella can offer another view drawn from the bottles recorded in your cellar. You still decide what comes to the table.
Open SmartCellar on the web or iPhone while you are at the rack. Move a bottle, change the quantity when the cork comes out, or let someone you trust help keep the cellar current through their own account.
A kitchen wine fridge, a few racks under the stairs or cases stored in several places all belong here. Paid plans are in pounds, and support comes from a UK company that understands a private collection is not a warehouse.
There is no need to catalogue everything in a weekend. Start with a familiar rack or case, use SmartCellar for a while and see whether it earns a place in the rest of the cellar.
Use rack, shelf, fridge and case names that make sense when you are standing in front of the wine.
Choose bottles you know well, so you can spot a wrong quantity or location without second-guessing the record.
Find a bottle, change the count and leave a note. That ordinary moment is a better test than filling every field at once.
If the record makes the cellar easier to use, add another section when you have time. The rest can wait.
Begin with the wine, vintage, quantity and exact storage place. Add the price, merchant, drinking window and your own notes when they help you choose, open or remember the bottle.
No. It can be useful for any collection where bottles are hard to find, quantities drift or several vintages of the same wine are easily confused. If a simple list already works, there is no need to complicate it.
Yes. You can look at drinking windows, remaining quantities and previous notes, then ask Cella for another view when several bottles would suit. The final choice remains yours.