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Wine Cellar app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 6416 ratings )
Lifestyle Food & Drink
Developer: Simon Guertin
2.99 USD
Current version: 3.1.7, last update: 3 years ago
First release : 08 Jan 2009
App size: 28.99 Mb

Wine Cellar is an application for the wine enthusiast. It is made to help both the amateur or the more experienced wine enthusiast. It helps to manage your wine bottles and also to collect information about bottles already tasted.
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Wine Cellar HD for iPad is finally available on the App Store.
Look for Wine Cellar Import Pro for a full Import/Export support or upgrade later with the In-App purchase.
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Also available for free, Wine Cellar Companion v2.1 to fully sync, view and edit your cellar on your Mac (sync pictures also)
http://sg-iphone.com/winecellar/companion.html
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Easy to use, easy to learn
Wine Cellar is designed to be easy to use and learn. The interface is designed with Apples user interface guidelines for simplicity and ease of use. It is intuitive and simple.

Sync all your devices using iCloud. It is suggested to backup the cellar using one of the export techniques when using iCloud.

Share bottles with other users via email, SMS or turn the phone sideways

Scan bar codes and retrieve info automatically (information is from the SAQ and LCBO in Quebec/Ontario/Canada)

Thanks to all the feedback from users, of whom reported bugs or gave recommendations, Wine Cellar has been improving for over a year now and Wine Cellar will continue to improve with new features.

Quick
The interface presents the wine cellar in an efficient manner. It is easy and fast to locate a bottle, search for keywords, or simply browse bottles by the grouping defined by the user.

Favorite list
A favorite list of bottles provides an even quicker method to locate a bottle.

Export your cellar to your computer using 2 ways (WiFi required):
-Using the free Companion Tool (Mac OS X)
-Using the integrated web server.

Use Companion or OpenOffice to edit and view your cellar on your computer.

The main view can be sorted on most of the wines characteristics (by region, country, vintage just to name a few)

Improved main screen
The main screen shows pictures and more details about each bottle. A more compact display of the main list is also available for a more streamlined look.

Preview
The preview area provides a quick overview showing more details about the selected bottle.
Add/remove a bottle in stock directly from the main screen with the simple sliding gesture across the area.

Wine Cellar provides you all the detailed information that you want
For each bottle, you can add, remove or edit all characteristics. You can quickly add a new vintage from an existing bottle using the shortcut.

Many useful characteristics can be displayed
-Region, Country, Vintage, Rating (on a 5 star ranking system) and much more.
-Full screen picture of the label

Wine Cellar is user friendly and adapts to the users needs
You can fully configure what you want to be asked for when adding a bottle. Unneeded characteristics can simply be skipped, or removed from the wizard to allow a quick interaction with the software.

-Simple Statistics about your cellar
-Simple Vintage Chart

Wine Cellar is not affiliated with the SAQ or LCBO

Pros and cons of Wine Cellar app for iPhone and iPad

Wine Cellar app good for

Serves my needs very well. I love that I can input a photo of the label. Would like to be able to input the grape varietal if its not on the list, instead of using the "other" category. Would also like to be able to be more specific about the denomination. Rather than just saying its a QmP (all of my German wines are QmP), Id like to be able to show whether its Kabinett, Spatlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, or Trockenbeerenauslese. Thanks for a great app! Worth the money IMO. Update. Author has already addressed the comments above. Increasing my rating to 5 stars! Highly recommended!
This is a well thought out application, with some great features to help customize the user experience. Users can add as little or as much info as theyd like on a per-bottle basis.
I highly recommend this app It has many features and well worth it
This program is exactly what is was looking for in a Wine Cellar app. I would recommend this program to anyone.

Some bad moments

I used to use this app a lot few years ago and was going to start using it again and I noticed all my data has been lost and after trying to start again it wont save anything.. Downloaded vivino instead, friends have had no problems with that one.
Overall this app is okay. By far, its most powerful feature is the ability to export to CSV file. One of my main gripes is with the user interface which is a bit clunky. For example, when adding a bottle the app uses a wizard approach with 1 page per field and each page with a "Next" button and all fields are required for all bottles. For my wines without vintages (eg, non vintage Port), the app requires you to enter a Vintage. Also, the app loves to use "list" control for everything. Personally, Id rather type in "1993" than scroll through a list.
Some items remain to be desired. It would be nice to be able to view pictures of the bottles in full screen. While it provides many options of information to see, getting to those options is a bit confusing.
Bar code scanner says will only work for iPhone 4, well Im using the iPhone 4 and it wont allow it to work. After spending money on this app it wants you to buy the pro in order to use the features it is supposed to have. Not well thought out. It could be a very good app but it needs some bugs worked out. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY UNTILL THIS IS FIXED!!!!
Scans bottle codes correctly but never returns any information - just an error message.
After giving up on this app long ago, I saw an update (2.2.0) so decided to revisit it. The main reason I wanted to give it another shot was to use the bar code scanner. It doesnt work with the 4S though. Also when I try to enter the barcode manuall it crashes the app. I guess I revisit this app later to see if anything is resolved because for me in its current state it is useless.