Who uses Cellar Tracker

Dale, I find that many of the wines I am looking for tasting notes on are not in the data base. Not a case of the producer or wine missing, necessarily, although I have found that once in awhile, but rather the vintages I am interested in have no tasting notes..

No tasting notes or the wine is not there? Very surprised if latter, as I think of you as mostly a classic area drinker, and even the most terrible Bdx vintages seem to be in db, though maybe without Tns. While I mostly use for inventory reasons. I am a bit surprised by you often not finding TNs on older wines. I just looked at first 2 pages of my cellar listed by vintage. Of 50 or so wines pre-1980, only 5 have no notes - a '36 Massandra Madeira, a '62 BV Pinot Noir, '65 L. Martini Mtn Barbera, '66 du Tertre, and '79 Moulin Touchais (plus 70 St Pierre only has my tn). Most of the older Bdx have tons of Tns.

It may be that I have unconsciously selected for the really hard ones, those being the ones I'd be doing a hunt for. The easy ones I can find in the usual sources. I don't recall the last few I looked for, but a couple were the 1979 Kenwood Jack London and the 1994 Michelton Reserve Cabernet (Australia) and a 1993 Moillard Santenay Buearegard. Haven't looked to see if anyone has added them in the last few months.

It may be that I have unconsciously selected for the really hard ones, those being the ones I'd be doing a hunt for. The easy ones I can find in the usual sources. I don't recall the last few I looked for, but a couple were the 1979 Kenwood Jack London and the 1994 Michelton Reserve Cabernet (Australia) and a 1993 Moillard Santenay Buearegard. Haven't looked to see if anyone has added them in the last few months.

Bill,
As may have read elsewhere, last year I suffered a catastrophic disk failure on my laptop at home and had the misfortune to find that my up-to-date backup was also corrupted. As a result, I decided to migrate my wine DB from my old one to Cellartracker. In doing so, I found that all but a handful of wines in my cellar were already entered. My cellar as you know is far smaller than your own, but also has some fairly oddball bottles, most of which were there. Entering new wines is so easy that I'm now sold.

Mark Lipton

Does the database have all the different types of wine, even if it's not too popular?

go to http://www.cellartracker.com and enter the name of a wine you are interested in finding out about in the search box in the upper left hand corner...see if what you are interested is there...

The database has been propagated by users. As at the end of 2010 "The database includes 980,000 wines from 70,000 producers" Thats different wines, not wines in total of which there are more than 6m and 1,600 reviews are added every day

Its not common to want to enter a wine that is not already in the database -- I get a bit of a kick out of doing so, but many is the time when I have sourced some really quirky wine and then found it was already there.

But supposing you come to a wine thats not in the DB, you just find a similar wine, e.g same appellation, varieties or producer and use that as the basis of a new entry. You shouldn't have to enter a wine completely from scratch.

the 1979 Kenwood Jack London and the 1994 Michelton Reserve Cabernet (Australia) and a 1993 Moillard Santenay Buearegard.

All three wines are in the database, if its Mitchelton and Moillard Santenay Beaurepaire, although not vintage 93 but it takes a couple of seconds to add a new vintage.

[David M. Bueker]

I'm sorry, but nobody get to complain about entering wine names into the database anymore. Try being an early adopter whose cellar entry was 60% German Riesling.

The existing users have done all the heavy lifting for you Bill.

Does the database have all the different types of wine, even if it's not too popular?

go to http://www.cellartracker.com and enter the name of a wine you are interested in finding out about in the search box in the upper left hand corner...see if what you are interested is there...

Thanks for the tip and for the easy guidance! That definitely helps. Oh boy, they have a HUGE database!! Thanks for sharing!