My Wine Assistant: One for the wine buffs...

If you’re made of the sort of money that allows you to keep 500+ bottles of wine in your cellar then $49 a year for this site’s premium plan will seem like a spit in the ocean. I can usually manage to rack up about 30 bottles pre-Christmas, however, they never seem to make it much past New Year’s Eve and although I’ve often thought about keeping the labels in a scrapbook of the one’s I like it’s always something someone else does. Anyway if wine’s your passion, as a collector as well as a guzzler I might add, then this one just might tickle your taste buds (feel free to spit after).

I suppose it’s a bit like that record collection that you keep meaning to catalogue and never get round to, however, this one will help you log what you have as well as searching for others that you may have overlooked or just be completely ignorant of.

Set out your virtual cellar as you would ideally like to at home and list the details of your wines. You can then add a note flagging when they are at their very best and so never miss out on an excuse to empty a few. You can always replace of course.

You can add tasting notes once you’ve enjoyed them too which will help you when you’re on the hunt again. You can also see professional and community ratings of a number of wines in the site’s existing database making it an informative place to be as well as a tidy and organized one.

The application is available on mobile devices so you can even keep on top of things if you happen to be touring a vineyard. What’s not clear however is how it would stand up as evidence for an insurance claim if the worst of all possible disasters should strike and your collection floats off down the street.

Get a cellar upstairs I say!

Conclusion

Certainly one for the wine buffs who have the willpower to buy a bottle of wine and not hurl it down their necks at the first opportunity. Seriously though, a good collection can be an investment so organizing it properly is a sensible thing to do.