Feature Requests, Bugs, and More

Feature suggestion: How about adding an Offline mode in the mobile app? Currently, you simply cannot load the app if there is no data connection where you are. I understand there is no way of supporting full functionality of the app for all the stuff that requires direct/real-time access to the database but I would find it very useful if you could use the label search function say to capture label images / add some tasting or other notes while in a location without cell service (the obvious example being in an underground cellar at home or at a producer but also on a plane or wherever there might not be cell coverage (which still happens quite a bit at wineries in Europe at least!) The data could then be uploaded at a later time when a data connection is available again, for matching of the captured labels to the database for instance.

I searched already posted suggestions and didn’t see this one. I primarily use the web version of CT due to its many options on the first screen on my phone and high functionality. My suggestion is to replicate the multi-level sorting functionality as I use it ad hoc but also to generate the 30 Saved Views I use. As an example, some of my Saved Views are RtDrink, then Color, then Location or MyBottles, Vintage (descending), then Producer (Qty Desc’g) or Purchases by Year Purchased (Desc), Quarter (desc), then Month (desc).

I wish the wine definition section would include its percent alcohol. I realize this information isn’t always readily available, but when possible it would be nice. TL;DR: I find myself becoming increasingly sensitive to alcohol levels in wine. As heat levels are rising in many parts of the world, more and more wines have very high alcohol levels. It’s becoming an important factor in my purchasing decision, as it affects taste and balance. Thanks.

As a user, I would like to vote for the image that I would like to see represent any given wine, so that only high quality photos represent wines in my list view. Benefit: This will remove low quality/poorly taken photos making for a better viewing experience

FR to be able to save or similar a producer to lists or suchlike. I often hear about or are recommended producers without necessarily referencing a particular wine. Instead of having to do workarounds with adding dummy wines it would be convenient to list the producers to reference.

I find it difficult on the new site to post wine notes. Can someone explain an easy way to post notes easily and quickly. The new site favors my past notes.

Can we please make the font size of the bottle location (bin, etc) larger? I strain every time I try to find where it’s written

Why should I have to pay to use a sort on the ending drink window?

while I totally benefit from the input of other oneophiles, would prefer if CT focused on things like easier bottle additions- barcode or UPC - Awesome resource for wine lovers, thanks!

From Chris: Enhanced Drinking Window Info: Would be amazing to show graphically for each wine the bell curve of the optimal drinking winding assuming proper storage. It could update dynamically based on both critic and user ratings.

Cellar Tracker is built to help me track my cellar. PLEASE give me a way to record my own thoughts on a bottle that I just drank — rating and comments — WITHOUT making this public for every other cellar tracker user to see. It’s PRIVATE if I want to remind myself that my wife thought this wine was a little too sweet or that I drank it at my cousin’s birthday party… but that information will definitely be relevant next month when I’m trying to decide whether to open the next bottle of it or something else. And it’s frankly nobody else’s business that I liked Wine A but not Wine B. It’s fine if some CT users want to exhibit their reviews like social media “influencers”, but it feels really really sketchy to make that mandatory.

I have 90 bottle wine cellar which has 9 shelves. It would nice if I could tell app how many bottles a shelf can store and then easily find shelf(s) that have free spot when adding new bottle

There are lots of wines that do not have a vintage year but do have a finite drinking window. (Most Champagnes and sakes, for example!) Currently, these wines have complete nonsense in the "drinkability score" and "drink by" window. For example I often see bottles whose "drink by" window ended before this bottle was actually bottled. It is incorrect to say that, e.g., ALL bottles of Veuve Clicquot NV have the same drink by window. A bottle that was bottled last year will improve a little and then last longer than an NV bottled 10years ago. Instead of showing wrong information (and, e.g., adding lots of noise/mess to my "drinkability report), CellarTracker should do one of the following: A) remove "drinkability score" and ready-to-drink windows from NV wines B) Add a concept of "NV but bottled on date X" (perhaps the purchase date if the true bottling date is unknown) and for NV wines calculate drinkability and drink-bys based on number of years since bottling date [preferred] Thanks!