Wine Cellar

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.

Easy to use, easy to learn
Wine Cellar is designed to be easy to use and learn. The interface is designed with Apple's user interface guidelines for simplicity and ease of use. It is intuitive and simple.

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 to your Mac/PC
You can export your cellar to your PC/Mac (Including all the pictures). Wifi connection required for export. You can use the Companion Tool (Mac OS X) or OpenOffice to edit and view your cellar on your PC.

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

Improved main screen
The main screen now shows pictures and more details about each bottle. The more compact display of the main list is still available for a more streamlined look (without pictures).

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 preview area. (See screenshots sectionfor more details)

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.

Share with others on Twitter
Share bottles, findings or tasting notes quickly using the integrated Twitter client.

Share with other iPhones
Simply turn the iPhone sideways and drag bottles to you friends.

Many useful characteristics can be displayed

Name

Country

Year

Region

Winery

Dates

Evaluation (on a 5 star ranking system)

Comments

Start/End years

bar code

and much more.

Possibility to add missing items when the proposed list does not have enough choices (for instance, you can add a missing region for a country)

Thumbnail picture of the label

Full screen picture of the label

Pictures can be taken with the iPhone's camera or imported from the Photo album of the iPhone/iPod Touch

Wine Cellar is user friendly and adapts to the user's 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. Missing characteristics can always be added at a later time.

Simple Statistics about your cellar

Number of bottles

Value of cellar

Vintage Chart
A simple vintage chart is available for quick reference.

Wine Cellar Pro Features:

Wine Cellar PRO offers everything from Wine Cellar with the added feature of importing your cellar from your PC or Mac into the iPhone.

The limit of 500 bottles is increased to 1500 bottles.

With Wine Cellar Pro, you can fully manage your cellar using the import/export function. You can do all the editing on your PC and import it to your iPhone so there is no need to type your 400+ bottles on your iPhone. (Pictures are not imported yet)

The file format used is csv (OpenOffice is an excellent tool to edit the file) or use the more simple Companion to view and edit your cellar (Mac OS X only).

The file format is very convenient if you already have your cellar in a database or in an excel spreadsheet. The conversion to the Wine Cellar format is very simple.

2 ways are offered to import your cellar:

Using the embedded website hosted on the iphone, and using you favorite web browser to access it and upload your file to the iPhone. (Same as Exporting your cellar to your PC)

A good indicator to know that both your PC/Mac and your iPhone are on the same network is to compare their IP address. They should have the same first 3 groups of numbers. Only the last group should be different.

Example 1: (they are both on the same network): 192.168.0.102 and 192.168.0.149

Example 2: (they are not on the same network): 192.168.1.199 and 10.123.3.123

By hosting your cellar file on a web site and accessing it with your iPhone (Wi-Fi or 3G connexion required)

First, you must put your wine cellar file on a web site so it will be accessible from your iPhone. For example, the file would be accessible on a web site like so: http://www.myPersonalWebSite.com/myCellar.csv

Then, on your iPhone, you must open Safari and type this address: (using the example address from the #1)
winecellar://http://www.myPersonalWebSite.com/myCellar.csv
The format is: winecellar://Address of your web server/yourCellarFile.csv

You can use MS Excel, Open office or any software that can edit csv files (Comma Separated Values).

The file format used is:

UTF-8 for the character set

; (semi-colon) as the separator value

" (double quotes) as the text delimiter

With this simple file format, it is easy to modify or adapt any excel spread sheet or any kind of list that you already have about your bottles and then import it into the iPhone.

Wine Cellar

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