Wine Cellar - Wine Collection & Cellar Log
Wine Cellar is a quiet, private catalog for the bottles you keep at home. Each record holds the wine's name, vintage, producer, country, region, grape variety and type, along with how many bottles you have, where they sit (a rack, a shelf, a box in the closet), what you paid and in which currency, and the range of years in which the wine is expected to be at its best.
It is meant for people who have outgrown a mental list or a scribbled notebook: collectors who buy a few bottles to age, or people who receive wine as gifts and lose track of it. It answers the practical questions: what do I have, where is it, and which bottles are nearing the end of their window.
There is no account and nothing is uploaded. Everything you enter is saved in this browser on this device.
The app runs entirely in your browser. What you enter is saved only on this device.
How to use Wine Cellar
- Add a bottle. On the Cellar tab, press Add Bottle. Only the wine name is required; fill in vintage, type, producer, country, region and grape as far as you know them. Producer, region, grape and storage fields suggest values you have used before.
- Record stock, storage and purchase. Set the number of bottles, a storage location such as "Rack A-3", the purchase date and price with its currency. A label photo can be attached from your files or, on a phone browser, the camera.
- Set a drink window. Enter a From year and an Until year. The bottle card then shows whether the wine is still resting in the cellar, within its window, close to the end of it, or past it.
- Find bottles quickly. Search by name, producer, region or grape, sort by newest, purchase date, price, name, vintage or drink-by year, and filter by type, country, storage location or wines that are within their window this year.
- Update stock when a bottle is opened. Open a bottle's page and use Drink One to log the date, a 1-5 rating, tasting impressions, food pairing and company; the stock count goes down by one. Use Add to record more bottles of the same wine, or Duplicate to start a new record for another vintage.
- Review your collection. The Stats tab shows the number of bottles and labels in stock, the total purchase value in your chosen currency and a chart of the collection by wine type. Opened bottles stay listed on the Consumed tab of the Cellar.
Features
- Detailed bottle records: vintage, producer, country, region, grape, type and notes
- Stock counts and storage locations for each wine
- Purchase date and price in 11 currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD and more)
- Drink windows with status tags: in the cellar, at its peak, ending soon, past its window
- Search, seven sort orders and filters by type, country and storage spot
- Tasting history per wine with ratings, notes and food pairings
- Collection summary with total value and a wine-type chart
- Light and dark themes, no account, data kept in your browser
Storing wine at home and reading drink windows
Most wine is not meant to age for long
A common assumption is that every wine gets better with time. In practice most wine sold is made to be enjoyed within a few years of release, and many everyday whites, rosés and light reds are at their freshest within one to three years. Only a smaller share, such as structured reds with firm tannins, some high-acid whites, vintage port and certain sweet wines, develops in interesting ways over a decade or more. Knowing which of your bottles belong to which group is the main reason to keep a record at all.
What a drink window means
A drink window is an estimate of the years in which a wine is likely to show well. Producers, merchants and critics often publish one, for example 2026-2034. Before the window the wine may feel tight or closed; after it, fruit fades and the wine may taste flat or tired. The window is a guide, not a deadline: storage conditions, bottle size and personal taste all shift it. Recording it when you buy the bottle saves guessing years later.
Conditions that matter for storage
The most important factor is a cool, steady temperature. Around 12-14 °C (about 55 °F) is the traditional cellar figure, but steadiness matters more than the exact number; repeated swings from warm to cool push wine in and out against the cork and speed up ageing. A dark place helps, because light, especially sunlight and some fluorescent tubes, can damage wine in clear or pale glass. Moderate humidity of roughly 50-70 percent keeps natural corks from drying out, and bottles with corks are usually stored lying down for the same reason. Screw-capped bottles can stand upright.
Avoid spots beside the refrigerator, near radiators or ovens, or in a garage that heats up in summer. An interior closet or a small wine fridge suits a modest collection.
Keeping an inventory that stays accurate
An inventory is only useful if it matches what is on the rack. A few habits help: give each storage spot a short name you can write on the shelf itself, update the count at the moment a bottle leaves the rack, and note the drink window and price as soon as the wine arrives. Reviewing the list once a season, sorted by the end of the drink window, shows which bottles should be used soon and which can keep resting, so nothing is forgotten until it is past its best.
If you collect wine, please do so responsibly and in line with the laws where you live.
Frequently asked questions
Where is my data stored?
Only in this browser on this device, in its local storage and IndexedDB. There is no account and nothing is sent to a server. Clearing your browser's site data, or using a private window, removes your cellar, and records do not move to another browser or device.
Is there a limit on how many wines I can add?
The web version keeps up to 20 wines in stock at the same time; each wine can hold any number of bottles. Wines whose stock has reached zero do not count toward this limit.
Can I add photos of labels?
Yes, one photo per wine. On a computer the photo option opens a file picker; on a phone browser you can usually take a picture or choose one from your library. Photos are resized and kept in this browser.
Which currencies are supported?
Eleven: US dollar, euro, pound sterling, yen, yuan, Australian, Canadian, Hong Kong and Singapore dollars, Swiss franc and won. You can set a default currency in Settings and choose a different one for any bottle.
What happens to tasting notes when a wine runs out?
They stay. When the stock of a wine reaches zero it moves to the Consumed tab, and its tasting history remains available, even if you later delete the bottle record.
How is this different from the phone app?
The iPhone and Android app can also keep an unlimited number of wines, store up to three photos per wine, show deeper analysis (by country, vintage spread, a list of wines nearing the end of their window and a monthly pace chart) and import or export CSV and JSON backups. Those extras are not available in the web version.
Limitations of the web version
- Up to 20 wines in stock at a time and one photo per wine
- Country, vintage and monthly analysis and the end-of-window list are only in the phone app
- No CSV or JSON import, export or backup on the web, so data cannot be moved to another device
- Data lives only in this browser and is lost if site data is cleared
Phone app
Wine Cellar is also available as an app for phones and tablets: