A map of your cellar, not a spreadsheet

Most cellar tools store where a bottle is as a line of text. You type “Rack B” or “bottom shelf, left” and hope the version in your head still matches in eighteen months.

It stops working at exactly the point it starts mattering. Under fifty bottles you can find anything by looking. Past a few hundred, in a rack four deep, a text field means shifting twenty bottles to reach one — and the bottle you are hunting is often the one you have already drunk and forgotten to mark.

A cellar is described the way it is actually built, so the map matches the room rather than an idealised one:

• Places — a walk-in cellar, a wine fridge in the kitchen, a case in storage in another country. Each with its own contents and count.
• Units and shelves — a rack has shelves, and a fridge’s top shelf frequently holds fewer bottles than the ones below it. That is describable rather than something you round off.
• Bins and diamonds, for the cellars built that way instead of in neat rows.
• Three axes. Across, back and stacked — because bottles sit behind and on top of one another, and a flat grid quietly loses the ones that do.

A bottle is not in “the rack”. It is in a place, a unit, a shelf, a column, a depth and a stack position — “Shelf 3, slot 7, second back”. Placement is a drill-down rather than a form, so filing a bottle is a few taps and the record is precise enough to act on.

The map shows what is full and what is free at a glance, which is the other half of the problem: knowing where a new case can actually go before you carry it downstairs. Capacity is calculated from the geometry, so a cellar cannot claim more room than it has.

The map is only as good as the cellar agreeing with it, so bin labels print straight to a DYMO — no driver, no desktop software. Shelf 3 says Shelf 3 in the room as well as on the screen.

Bottles arrive on the map from label scanning, a case at a time, and what is ready to drink surfaces through drinking windows with its location attached — so “open this one tonight” also tells you which shelf to walk to. Spirits sit on the same map; see spirits tracking.

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