Comments on: More Virtual: WineLog.net

By: Eric LeVine

Eric LeVine — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:47:47 +0000

Thanks for the mention of CellarTracker. Please note that we do in fact have a bulk import interface (and have for about 7 months now) as described here: http://www.cellartracker.com/bulkfaq.asp
For the moment this is focused on letting people pull in their inventory from other software, and people have used it to load 250,000 of the 2.7 million bottles tracked on CellarTracker. At some point we may extend this to allow similar import of personal tasting notes, as a number of people with many thousands of notes have approached us about this.

By: MalB

MalB — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:40:43 +0000

I have developed my own spreadsheet that can search on any parameters (eg winery, label, region, variety, vintage, location etc)and any subset of these. It also gives totals and subtotals etc of no. of bottles, cost, market value.
However a few friends have told me about the Reg Bigot who has developed something that uses MS Access. You can check out a free copy from him at http://users.tpg.com.au/handreck/
I haven’t had time to evaluate it myself but I have heard good things.

By: Jason Coleman

Jason Coleman — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:09:21 +0000

Hi, Michelle. Thanks for the kind words for WineLog.
We were blown away by the spreadsheet that you sent us. Wine Cellar seems very thorough. I wanted you to know that I added the wines which are on the first tab of that spreadsheet. You can see them using this link (search for “from_michelle”):
http://www.winelog.net/wines/?term=from_michelle
We’re working on a way to import your tasting notes, and taking notes along the way to possibly make this automatic in the future. It’s a difficult task though since most tools don’t use a universal identifier and only have partial UPC data.
I will be off from work later next week and doing more work on the site. I may try to get a hold of you then. We’re tempted by your offer to help out. Maybe we can find some money for it. Keep in touch.