CellarTracker

Vinfolio

Vinfolio® (www.vinfolio.com) is a San Francisco-based fine wine and collector services company serving wine lovers, enthusiasts and collectors worldwide. The company offers an extensive selection of over 3,000 wines and a full complement of services and resources to find, buy, sell, manage and enjoy fine wine. As part of my partnership with Vinfolio, IWC scores and reviews are available online in a searchable format through both Vinfolio's online store and VinCellar™, their free web-based cellar management application

Vinfolio makes it simple to find the wine you like by giving users the ability to search all wines by price, region, varietal and reviewer, then sort searches by year, score, price and availability (in stock or prearrival). For wines not available in the store, users can request a quote at no cost and with no obligation to purchase.

VinCellar™ (www.vincellar.com) is integrated with Vinfolio’s online wine store and extensive collector services, including on-site inventorying and full-service storage. VinCellar™ provides comprehensive cellar tracking data and tools, automatic cellar valuation based on retail or auction pricing, and a link to our community of wine lovers. My partnership with Vinfolio includes making IWC tasting notes available to IWC subscribers who also use VinCellar. This allows you to manage your wine collection and access IWC content simultaneously, which means you can view IWC tasting notes and scores within the context of your personal collection.

VinCellar™, powered by Vinfolio, is a free web-based cellar management application that is intuitive, easy to learn and simple to use. It provides users with a simplified way to track all aspects of a collection, with the various components all integrated under the umbrella of managing wine: buying wine, selling wine, drinking wine, learning about wine, storing and keeping track of wine, and sharing opinions about wine with the VinCellar community.

To register for a free VinCellar account, please click here. To integrate IWC reviews into your VinCellar account, register or log into Vinfolio, go to My Account, click on Register Content Subscriptions under Account Settings, and input your IWC username and password.

CellarTracker

CellarTracker is a rich tool for cataloguing your wine collection, and is designed to manage the needs of a broad range of collectors. The site enables you to track your collection with great precision, offers rich and flexible querying and reporting, includes tools to help you manage the aging of your collection, and offers special features such as the ability to print a wine list that looks better than what you will find in most restaurants.

As CellarTracker is a Web-based tool, you can access your cellar and tasting notes from any Internet-connected computer or PDA, even from a web-enabled cell phone. What distinguishes CellarTracker from other cellar-management tools is the way it integrates a community of fellow wine lovers. As soon as you load your cellar, you can easily see tasting notes and drinking window recommendations from your fellow users on wines that are in your cellar. To date, CellarTracker users have written, and are sharing, nearly 50,000 tasting notes. Adding wines to your cellar is also easy, because typically another user has already added the same wine to the centrally maintained database of wines. You simply search for the wine and then add information about your own holding. Every user has control over the privacy and anonymity of their cellar. The CellarTracker site is constantly expanding, with new features appearing regularly in response to user demand.

Signing up is free and doesn’t require installing any software on your computer. Just browse to www.cellartracker.com and click the button to begin your free trial; registration takes barely a minute. Once you have registered, there will be an IWC banner which you can click to associate your IWC account with CellarTracker and to gain access to my reviews in the context of your cellar inventory.

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