I use a program called Cellar! The Ultimate Wine Companion…. Pretty good software but a little quirky with Vista. I like the fact that it will guide you through which bottles of wine should be drank first and which ones you should hold onto.

Gary,

Good show, I have been out of town, so just catching up. I don’t have much experience with Zin’s so I’ll look forward to trying them.

Ken

Excel Spreadsheet with worksheets for inventory, wines I’ve had, and cheese!!

QOTD: Cellartracker.com – you can’t beat it.

Yo Gary! Nice Zin episode. QOTD: I see a lot of folks use Cellar Tracker. I have seen that all over the forums. Sorry. I don’t get it. I mean its fine and all, but I really don’t buy wine to have others ogle my stock and I certainly don’t care what’s in other people’s cellars. I mean, what I am, a lemming? NOT! I use a piece of PC-based software called Personal Wine Curator. It is perfect for my ~900 bottle cellar. I can print inventory labels. I can do whatever I need to do with it. And it is only ~$40 to buy. Plus my collection is on my PC and not out there for everyone else to see, thank you very much.

QOTD: Cellar Tracker, not to have people drool over my inventory (nothing to drool over btw), but just because it’s easy to use (smtimes a bit superfluous), quick, efficient and above all free. What am I gonna do? Pay for some software to support my crappy brains? NOT! I’d better have some fine bottles of wine for that price.

not exactly a lurker, but more like an occasional viewer for the Van Der Chuck WoW entertainment factor, and to appease the Elvis in every entertainer….. QOTD;-) answer is excel

JayZee:
sometimes I “need” to update my cellar info from work when I get a new shipment in, or print from work on the nice color printers, or when using my laptop when traveling, or by checking it using my cellphone (there’s a simplified phone page) when I’m at a store to see how much I paid from something before. . . it’s quite handy

plus- you can set your cellar to private so no one else sees your information

the advantage is that if you’re entering a new purchase, most of the time it’s already in the system so you don’t have to spend a lot of time typing, you can just edit an existing db record

Delurking…Thanks for reviewing some Zins, I think I like the new world.

Relurking…

QOD: Nothin’! If I gottem, I drink em. After that I rarely have more in the rack so what good are tasting notes? I never see that bottle in that vintage again…Gone….poof…In the wind.

I use corkd.com for managing my wine cellar. It’s nice, simple, but powerful though. And all you need to do when you want to show the structure of your wine cellar to some of your friends is simply to post a link.

I love Zins. Just got back from trip to California and Healdsburg in particular. We had some rocking Sonoma Zins. I am partial to the Dry Creek Valley zinfandels.

I use Cellar! I tried several, all have quirks and none are perfect, but Cellar! does a good job once you are familiar with it.

QOTD: I’m a CORK’D fan! corkd.com/people/nasv!!!

I use http://www.cellartracker.com/ and it is awesome. Still lovin’ the show.

Hola Gary,
Ilove wine library tv, I have asked our wine club members IN CABO (BAJASUR)MX. to log on.
I use to dust off the wine bottels in my Dads Store in SF, Alta Plaza Market.Just like you at Shoppers Discount Liqour Store !
Are you still comming to S.F.?
Tana Craighead
Cabo Wine Club

You’re great! I’ve been watching your shows for a month or so.
I’m truly inspired by the way you present the wines. Not that I would present them in the same way, but it inspired me as a winetaster to really think about what my personal way is.
Keep going, I’m telling all my sommelier friends to get as quick as possible to this website.
Johan, Stockholm – Sweden

QOTD; cellartracker.
late post, i know. just revisiteing some old episodes. WLTV ROCKS!!!

QOTD: I use a home-made access database to track my cellar, tasting notes & wishlist. Probably not the greatest, but it serves its purpose.

Cellar? Haha, are you freaking kidding me? On a good night I open the bottle I just bought an hour ago on my way home from work. And if I had a cellar I wouldn’t use cellar tracker, there are some pretentious A-holes on there. I’m starting to get into Zin and Syrah and whatnot from California after years of shunning them. My sweet tooth is taking over! Awesome job, keep it up!

Shopper’s Discout Liquors! Woohoo!

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm…… was I too late?

So this is the episode with the Bull in the China Shop quote!

GV,
Great episode. Wife just mentioned last week her favorite wine is Zinfidel. She had never told that to me before and I had never bought any since. Will have to treat her to a couple of bottles.

QOTD: Used the Personal Wine Curator and find it very time consuming to enter bottles in the inventory and I only have about 60. With so many people talking about Cellar Tracker, I’m going to have to check it out.

Seghesio is hands down my favorite Zinfandel. I recently attended the Zin Festival in SF and tried to find contenders with no avail. Close seconds are Green & Red, St. Francis, Sones Cellars. I am usually partial to the Alexander Valley, Dry Creek Valley and/or Old Vine Zins–what can I say, I like big, I like fruity, but not too sweet Zins. Is it me, but were the Zins in 2004 much better?!!!

By the way, Gary, this McManis Petite Sirah is off the hook for the price point! Go SXSW!

GV. props for dropping some mad wine knowledge! As a relative wine neophyte, you have done much to bring me along and at least help me to have more fun with my wine adventures. Keep it coming!
C

The quality of the info is what keeps me on this site, thanks!