Best way to organize your wine collection?

@rjquillin @mommadeb My cellar is organized pretty much like Ron’s, except my 2 fridges are wildly different capacities so temperature isn’t a consideration. The smaller fridge has slightly wider bins so fatter bottles go there.
New wine is randomly assigned to a vacant bin and I use CT to find what I want to drink. Definitely second Ron’s suggestion to tack a leading zero onto the single digit bin numbers.

@davirom @mommadeb
Yes, that bottle size absolutely should be considered, especially with the larger diameter bottles and bubbly vs. 375 and 500’s. For me, mags go into an open top area and are just horizontally stacked; sub-optimal, but it is what it is.

@davirom @mommadeb @rjquillin I wouldn’t worry too much about top down organisation - it lasts only until you start drinking some and storing others. Especially if you group by winery or variety. IMO that’s just not worth the effort unless you value being able to just open the fridge and grab a bottle rather than looking up what you want to drink.

So when I get new wine in I either accept it into a new location/bin combo, put bottles into existing open slots, or just into the generic “cellar/na” combo that CT provides. Then when I do a reorg and consolidate boxes and such, I start with that location to fill up empty spaces.

When I’m picking wine it almost always starts with looking at CT rather than the bottles. I use a few saved searches for the ways I normally look things up:

Reds by variety: https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=Pivot&Pivot1=MasterVarietal&Pivot2=Varietal&Pivot3=iWine&Type=Red

Whites by variety: https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Pivot1=MasterVarietal&Pivot2=Varietal&Pivot3=iWine&Type=White&Table=Pivot

All wine by category and bottle size (used for finding dessert wines primarily): https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?table=Pivot&Pivot1=Category&Pivot2=Size&Pivot3=iWine&S1=q

Location list, helpful for finding open spots: https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?table=Pivot&Pivot1=Location&Pivot2=Bin&S1=n&S2=n&iInventoryList=0&BulkEdit=True&fInStock=1&Pivot3=iWine

@klezman @mommadeb @rjquillin Unfortunately the links were broken for me. Fortunately, it’s easy to do directly. From the new mobile app home page, tap In My Cellar then Filter. You will get a drop down down with many ways to view your your collection, including by Type & Color or Size.

@mommadeb don’t over analyze. Slot them up and enter them; location and bin, it’s simple once you start doing it.

@rjquillin
Thanks! I’m for sure over thinking this!!

@mommadeb @rjquillin Yes, what Ron said. Just pick a numbering and naming scheme you will find easy to remember.

@mommadeb
It’s winter, even in FL you have some time to add and consume additional without much worry!
Are you mommadeb on CT?

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I wont be ordering anything until I drink some and make room.

That’s what we all say… and then we see a wine that’s too good to pass up and the next thing you know, you’ve got cardboard boxes full of wine all over the place.

@kawichris650 @mommadeb Yeah, when we got our large fridges we vowed to never overflow them. A bunch of years later, we’ve got 35 or so cases strewn around the room beside the full fridges.

@kawichris650 @klezman
I have a feelings Mr. Mommadeb won’t be so understanding if more wine shows up and there is no room in the fridges. One of our kids came home and was like you have more wine than some restaurants
They just dont get it! Do they really expect me to pass up on an amazing wine dea!!?? They were going on and on about how long it would take me to drink all the wine I currently have, blah blah blah

@kawichris650 @klezman @mommadeb Just permanently lose your sense of smell. Problem cured!

@kawichris650 @Mark_L @mommadeb I already have that problem with molarchae.
And I tried the losing my sense of smell. Zero stars. Do not recommend. Thankfully it was just sinusitis and it came back easily enough.