How to categorize all the wine?

Colour

I formerly used a Access table to keep track of wine, now use Cellartracker. The CT fields are very similar to what I used for Access. Allows me to sort in about any fashion I might choose:

Vintage Type ( Red, Rose, White, with further notation if off-dry,dessert, or sparkling) Producer Varietal Designation (proprietary names, etc) Vineyard Country Region SubRegion Appellation

Obviously not every field gets filled for every wine.

Thanks , wow how on each did Celltracker get such a huge collections of wines

I use a different cellar tracking tool, and have almost identical fields as you Dale - but would add one to your list below (which you may also use) - Maturity.

I tend to keep mine simple - "Hold" for those wines that are not yet ready to drink; "Hold/Drink" for the many that are drinking now but will continue to develop with age; and "Drink" for those that need to be consumed before they start going down.

My cellar tracking tool is a HyperCard database that I created on a Mac about 15 years ago, then had to migrate to SuperCard after HyperCard went the way of the dodo. The fields I have in my d/b are:

year producer region variety appellation vineyard estimated maturity number of bottles tasting notes critics' comments/ratings

Some day I might migrate to Cellatracker, but that's more work than I want to invest right now.

Mark Lipton

When I had on Access I also had fields for quantity, maturity (rather than actual dates I classed stuff as 1-5, and revisited every year or two), my notes, others' notes, store where bought, price paid, etc. There of course are fields for all of that and more on CT, but I was just listing the ones that actually identify the wine.

I just paid my $60 to renew my CT (it's shareware, no money required, but Eric asks folks to contribute: $60 if over 500 bottles, well worth it to me in any case, but there are some bonuses only available to those who pay, like Winebid valuation links). Personally I find that (and Winesearcher Pro) to be very reasonable non-wine uses of my wine money. I have 739 different bottlings, yet its very easy to manipulate in any way, and entering new wines is so much faster/easier than a self-created database. The import feature works well from Excel (and the export, though CT is so stable I have to remind myself to do the backup every once in a while)..

The miracle of the internet. A huge collection of wines entered (occasionally incorrectly) and updated by a huge collection of users!

The question is about which is the most important category that makes one wine different than another. A single reply is required.

When I ansered "colour" I was not kidding. I think.

I'd love to try CT - but I'm another Mac user and, last I checked, there was no Mac version. I've been happy with an online database which allows me to access my cellar list even when I'm on the road - and to get other wine suggestions and notes from other folks using the same database. It's free - "manageyourcellar.com", if you're interested.

I think you may be confused. CT is an online database. All you need is a web browser.

I'm also a mac user and have been very happy with CT for the year I've been using it.

CT allows you to download your data into an Excel spreadsheet. It also (for initially entering your cellar) allows you to upload data from Excel.

So, if what you are using allows you to download your data as an Excel spreadsheet, it is easy to try CT (if you have Excel).

Thanks Doug - I must be confusing it with a different client app I have looked at previously. My online tool also allows me to export to Excel, so i doubt I need to change - but will take a look.

Thanks again

sorry am color blind then

Mike Tommasi wrote in news:5rr0ttF164ugbU1 @mid.individual.net:

I store my Bordeaux based on geography. All of the Pomerols and St. Emilions on the right. Northern regions are above Southern regions. Is that too anal?

Fred.

Most important, in my mind, would be the varietal(s) used in the wine. Probably the point-of-origin would be next, with producer not too far behind. Then would come the Vintage, though there might well be times, that this would come to the fore.

Now for my question: what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Given certain criteria, I might answer differently.

Hunt