As most folks who start enjoying wine learn, storing bottles for a year or more often greatly improves how well the drink. Once you go beyond a dozen bottles of wine it becomes hard to remember where you got a given bottle of wine, how much you paid, and how previous tastings were. I had been using Windows based Cellar! for the last 2 years, however after Paul recently moved his entire wine collection to his new house and re-inventoried his entire collection he really touted CellarTracker!.

I decided to give it a whirl. Import was relatively painless, I exported all my data from Cellar! into CSV and uploaded to CellarTracker!. It took a few days, but eventually it got added into their Bulk Import system. I suspect this is largely still a manual process for Eric LeVine, the site owner. The bulk import too managed to automatically match ~40% of my wines, the rest I had to manually match entries w/ wines in their system. I only found and had to add 2 wines that they didn't have already listed! Regardless, converting was quicker than I expected.

The site is "free", which really rocks w/r/t playing around and seeing it the tool is for you. After realizing CellarTracker was much better than what I was using I sent in the requested donation. The site has some minimal community features, most useful is data/peer-reviews/tasting notes and label images uploaded by others. It's also nice to see what >friends enjoy drinking. The biggest downside is the UI, however that can easily be improved, they are really focusing on building up their already solid data base of wines, tasting notes, pricing, drinking windows, etc. which IMO is much more important than the UI at this stage.

Image courtesy of Erich Ian's review, also worth reading.