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Great Drink Now/Soon Feature
This is a very good application with the potential to be great. Best feature is the Drink Now/Soon Feature. It helped me identify over a dozen bottles near or past their drinkable window. Before using this feature I was drinking my wines more in a last bought, first drunk approach. The usability of the app could be improved if the number of wines in their wine database was increased and more bar codes were included and added. Even after I scanned a barcode when I added a wine to my cellar, and added the barcode to the record when asked, the application could not "find" the wine based on the barcode when I pulled it from the cellar to drink. That said, the features are laid out pretty well.Show lessMike_in_MD
Blown away!
Just got my iPhone and dreamed of an iOS app that would connect to CellarTracker. This is it! It's amazing! And I haven't even tried the scan or the compare features yet. Highly recommended.
Update: have been using for awhile now and still love it! If you track your wine with CellarTracker this is a must have. The scan and compare features work great, BTW.
Update 28 September 2012: still love it! No complaints, this is a great app if you are a CellarTracker user; it's probably equally wonderful even if you are not.
Update 31 Jan 2013: had a problem viewing some of my wines by location (a bug). Contacted support and they had it fixed in couple of days. Very happy with the app. Kudos to Llew!Show lessTrevor Ray-Ban
I like it just fine
I think some reviewers miss the point of this app. It is a huge database; therefore you have to be connected to access tasting notes. It would simply be too big to store on your iPad or iPhone. Also the database is live since it is made up of reviews from users like you and me. The fact that you can look up a 20 year old napa cab and find a recent consumer thoughts on how it is drinking can be much more reliable than a 17 year old critics review.
I am glad this app doesn't tie up storage space on my device and allows me a portal to monitor my budding wine collection. It has offered me the opportunity to find amazing buys online and supply some fantastic drinkers at dinner parties due to information from fellow enthusiasts.
Cheers!Show lessBoMo79
Extremely helpful in a wine store
I use this app exclusively to help me pick wines at retail. Extremely helpful due to their huge inventory of wines in database, including at the lower price points where I and many other wine lovers with Champaign taste buds on beer budgets must shop. Helping me find high 80's rated wines around $10 among the gazillions of gallons of swill keeps me from pouring so many bottles down the drain, or to be generous, allows me to pick way more winners than merely OK wines. The Wine Spectator App just gives you an idea of the vintage and region, but this App gives you name, date, rating, and average prices at retail. An excellent and helpful App. I don't know what I'd do without it now. Kudos to the developers, and thank you.Show lessndmVT
Hands down BEST wine app
I LOVE this app. I have been using it for over a year now and can't imagine going back to trying to track my wine collection with Excel. I use the app with tracking my current collection, looking up new wines before I purchase (to get ratings, reviews, pricing), doing research on new wineries that I want to visit, and for showing off to my friends. I am sure you will love it as well if you spend some time using it. There are a hand full of enhancements that I would like to see, but those will be great when they come out, but the lack of them does not take away from the true value of all of the current features it has. Give it a try, you will not be diss appointed.Show lessC1kevinc
Very Nice Wine Cellar Solution
I would highly recommend using this app. I have tracked my 550 bottle cellar a couple of different ways, but never as effectively as this. Easy to implement - a couple of 2-1/2 hour sessions - and once the data is entered, it's easy to maintain. I especially use the Drink By sorting feature. I either rely on the Community Drink By dates or enter my own. Once they are in, I can sort by the Drink By dates and quickly grab a wine for dinner at home, opening at a restaurant, or sharing with friends. With this feature I don't have to worry about forgetting about bottles in my cellar to the point they are past there prime. The app makes it easy to maintain your cellar as you consume and purchase from your laptop, iPhone or iPad. App works with data entered into cellar tracker. An improvement I would like to see when quick entering bottles in your iPhone or iPad is being able to note in the entry a user defined location in the cellar. This would make it easier to find an individual bottle within the cellar. I also use this app when ordering wine in a restaurant - I can quickly find the community rating and price for a wine on the menu to determine if the majority have found it to be worth drinking, along with how much markup I am paying for the bottle.Show lessSeattleSlewU
what's with this wine I buy?
The barcode-scanning feature in this app is great....when it works. I'd say that roughly 50% of the bottles I try to scan are not recognized by this program. I've used it in a few occasions when I've had plenty of time to spend in a liquor store and I wanted some help choosing a bottle. Unfortunately, since so many bottles aren't recognized, I end up frustrated. However, when this app recognizes the bottle, things are great! I never seem to keep wine around long enough to take advantage of the "cellar" feature.
All in all, I'll keep playing around with this app, but only because I already paid for it. I wish it had been free or at least cheaper, or better yet: that it just worked more often.Show lesssuperwesman
Everything I expected
This app is outstanding for the budding connoisseur. The barcode scanner is invaluable, not only when shopping a local distributor, but when browsing wine festivals and expos (the reps are much more informative when they perceive you as a serious consumer). And when I do find that special bottle at the expo, I can remember to search for it at the local shop.
Tracking my own inventory linked back to Cellar Tracker helps managing my burgeoning stock, keeping notes and sharing with my family and friends easier and more enjoyable.
One of my absolute favorite apps.Show lessDa Mass
One of my favorite apps
This is the only and best App that totaly complements the incredible Cellar Tracker. This keeps my cellar even more organized then ever before.
All of the wines I have in my collection have the date of purchase, locations, ratings, cost, value, tasting notes and more available on this app. Well worth the small price.
It has general information about wines as well. I could go on and on.
The only item is that I cannot get the scanner to work on the iPhone. No big thing. I take the iPhone when going to the cellar, locate the wine, then mark it "drank".
I can't even think how I would improve this app.Show lessJet Winer
Lot of potential
Be very clear--this does not currently support scanning CT! barcodes (ITF), only UPC/EAN. I know it says this in the description, but sometimes I only read comments and I mis-read one of the comments. I do like the Pedia--while you can certainly use Wikipedia or wine-specific websites via Safari to look things up, it is kind of nice having the basics available in a single application. And access to your collection (if it's in CellarTracker! already) is kind of nice, too. The speed seems like it could be improved--results seem to come up faster when browsing in Safari on the iPhone. It borders on being too slow to use (at least for me). Lot of potential, however, and I look forward to future versions.Show lessChevalBlanc
