In development · not yet released
My Wine Shelf is a cellar app being built now. Scan a label to add a bottle, keep an honest count of what is left, and see each wine's drinking window, so you open it at its peak instead of discovering three years too late that you missed it. Tell us if you want it built.
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What it will do
Each wine gets a window based on its vintage, region, grape and style, with your own adjustments on top. The cellar sorts into what is at peak now, what needs more time, and what is on the way down and should be opened this season. A great bottle drunk three years late is money and pleasure gone. This is the part we would build first.
Point the camera at a label and the producer, vintage, region and grape are read and filed. Bought six? Set the quantity once. Every bottle you open takes the count down, so the cellar on screen is the cellar in the rack, not a list you stopped updating in March.
You are cooking lamb on Thursday. The question is not which wine in the world suits it, it is which of your bottles does, and whether opening that one now is sensible or a waste. Suggestions come from your rack, weighted by what is ready.
Note what a bottle actually tasted like on the night, with the date and who you drank it with. When the next bottle of the same wine comes round the note is waiting, and it quietly corrects the window: still tight, drinking beautifully, or already fading.
The point
There is no shortage of ways to find out what a wine scores or what strangers thought of it. There is very little that answers the two questions an owner actually has: what have I got, and when should I drink it?
If you own more bottles than you can hold in your head, the cellar is the product.
So the whole app points inward: at your rack, your quantities, your windows, your notes. Discovery, scores and shops are somebody else's job.
One email address is the whole vote.