Managing Your Wine Cellar
Okay, You've been reading the wine blogs, buying deals as you see them, and now you've got a ton of wine.
When you had 50 bottles, you knew exactly what you had... when you got to 100 bottles, you'd be out shopping and forget whether or not you had a specific bottle... once you're up over 200 bottles, you can't remember what you have. This is dangerous... as you know, wine has certain "drinking windows" indicating the wine's prime time. If you don't keep close track of your wine, you could have select wines (or entire cases) that get overlooked until they are in their declining stages.
- It's extremely cost effective
- Entering in wine purchases is easy... most of the wines already exist in the database, and you just put in your purchase info.
- This system keeps track of every bottle, giving each bottle its own id number.
- The service feeds in critics' wine reviews, bottle values, and drinking windows.
- You can key in where the wine is stored and in which "bin" (or section) of the cellar.
- It offers a "drinkability" button where an algorithm looks at all your wine and makes sure you are drinking your collection at its peak.
- Offers the capability of printing your own barcodes for each wine bottle (these are not UPC codes... they're unique bar codes for each bottle of wine, exclusively for your cellar)
- Works with the Dymo printer and custom size labels (30336) to print the barcodes
- Works with barcode scanners you hook up to the computer
- Barcoding allows you to take wine out of inventory easily, do inventorying, perform wine moves, etc.
- It's a web-application, so you can see your entire collection anywhere (iphones, android, computers)
Here's the barcode kit I use:
- Dymo LabelWriter 450
- CipherLab 1000 Barcode Reader
- OEM Labels
Take a look, also at the CipherLab 1166 wireless bluetooth scanner. It's more expensive, but worth it. I just got it, and using it as a wireless scanner really frees you up from being tethered to the laptop.
