Guides
Keeping a cellar, written down
What I have learned keeping my own collection, and building the tool for it. Written to be useful whether or not you use CellarPals.
By Avery — WSET Level 3 in Wines, working through the Diploma.
How to catalog a wine collection
Without losing a weekend to it.
How to organize a wine cellar
Racks, bins, and a map you'll actually keep updated.
Drinking windows explained
When to open the bottles you're saving.
How to scan wine labels with your phone
And keep the cellar in sync.
How to track a whisky collection
Bottles, values and drinking order.
Keep a wine journal you'll actually keep
For bottles you own and bottles you only met once.
Why these six
They are the six questions I have actually had to answer, in the order they came up: how to get the collection written down at all, how to lay it out so a bottle can be found, how to know when to open it, how to keep the record true without it becoming a chore, what changes when the shelf is spirits rather than wine, and how to remember what you thought afterwards.
None of them require CellarPals. Where a section describes how I do something in the app, it says so, and the underlying idea works with a spreadsheet and more patience.