Cellar Dash keeps your wine and your spirits in one place: what you have, where it sits, what it is worth, and what to open tonight.
Sign in with a link to your email. Photograph a label and the bottle enters your cellar. Everything after that is the part worth paying attention to.
Free for your first 100 bottles. No password, no card.
Every collector hits the same wall at about the same place — somewhere past the second case, when the cellar stops being a list you can hold in your head.
In the aisle you can't remember whether that Barolo is at home or just familiar. So you buy it. It was at home.
The wine you were saving was ready four years ago. Nothing warned you, because nothing was watching.
A heel of bourbon flattens in a season and the vermouth was finished a month after you opened it. Both taste like your fault.
It works until the night you open a bottle and don't feel like editing a cell. Two months later the file is fiction.
Wine, bourbon, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, beer and sake each get their own inventory, their own fields, and their own dashboard — under one sign-in.
The difference between a live inventory and a dead one is how long it takes to add a bottle at eleven at night.
Point your camera at the bottle. The label is read for producer, vintage, region and size, and you confirm the fields before it lands in the cellar.
Import a CSV and the columns are mapped for you — whatever you called them. You preview the result before anything commits.
Track what you're hunting. When you find it, mark it acquired and it moves straight into inventory. Bottles you loved can go back on the list from your drinking history.
Lay out your racks and assign bottles to slots. Ask for a bottle and the answer comes with directions, so you stop excavating the back row to find the front one.
Drink windows are read out of whatever text you or a critic wrote — “2026–2040”, “drink now”, “within 10 years” — and every bottle is scored against this year: Hold, Drink Now, At Peak, or Past. Recalculated each time you look, so a 2019 note doesn't stay 2019 forever.
Record what you paid, refresh current values, and see profit and loss by bottle and across the cellar. Useful for insurance, for selling, and for knowing what you're actually opening on a Tuesday.
Spirits don't go from sealed to gone. Log the fill level — full, half, down to the heel — and open bottles sort themselves into a kill list by how urgently they need finishing. Open vermouth gets a month, and it will tell you so.
The other half talks to you, plays a guessing game with your palate, runs a tasting for the table, and writes down what happened.
Sommy reads all eight cellars — what's in the window, what's open and fading, which shelf a bottle is on, and what dinner wants.
Anything that removes a bottle or changes a rating comes back as a proposal and waits for a tap. It never acts unasked.
Build the wheel from your own palate — fruit, flower, herb, spice, wood, earth. Press Reveal and see what the bottle is known for, and how close you were.
Friends join by link with no account and score what's in the glass. The blindfold is enforced on the server — the guest page cannot learn the label before the reveal.
A poem, a second-person reflection, a ledger entry for a year — in whichever register you pick. Keep the ones you like; they stay in a library.
It prefers what's already open and fading, and keeps every drink it invents. Say what you have — “orange juice, Angostura and some falernum” — and each word comes back as a proposal to tick.
Also in there: dinner pairings drawn from your own shelves, and a globe of where every bottle came from.
Free to 100 bottles. Then $1.99 a month.
Most tools are built for one drink and one purpose: a wine social network, a ratings archive, a premium cellar showpiece, or a spreadsheet you maintain by hand.
| Cellar Dash | A wine cellar database | A ratings & social app | A premium cellar tool | A spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eight drink types in one account | Yes | Wine-first | Wine only | Wine only | If you build it |
| Rack and slot location | Yes | Yes | — | Yes, in 3D | Manual |
| Add by label photo | Yes | Usually barcode | Yes | Yes | — |
| Drink window recomputed every time | Yes | Stored window | — | Yes | Manual |
| Cost basis, current value and P&L | Yes | Often a paid tier | — | Yes | Manual |
| Open-bottle tracking for spirits | Yes | — | — | — | Manual |
| Cocktails you can make from your bar | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| Pairing from your own inventory | Yes | — | Suggestions | — | — |
| An assistant that reads your whole collection Ask in plain words; it answers from real inventory | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| A blind tasting you can run with friends They join by a link with no account; the server hides the label, not the page | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| Guess the flavours, then see what it's known for Build the wheel from your own palate and find out how close you were | Yes | — | Notes only | — | — |
| Writes about what you drank A poem, a reflection or a ledger entry, kept in a library | Yes | — | — | — | — |
| Sign-in | Email link | Password | Account | Account | — |
| Ads or a social feed | Neither | Community notes | Central to it | No | No |
| Price | Free to 100 bottles, then $1.99/mo | Free tier, paid tiers | Free, in-app purchases | Subscription | Your evenings |
The columns describe categories of tool rather than particular products; features and prices vary by product and by tier.
Up to 100 bottles across your cellars. Inventory, locations, drink windows, values, notes and maps.
Unlimited bottles and the assisted features: label scanning, valuations, pairing, bartender, blind flights. Includes 100 AI credits a month. Cancel anytime.
The same thing with two months free. Extra credits can be topped up any time and never expire.
A link arrives and you're in. Nothing to install — it runs in the browser and installs to your phone if you want it there.
Photograph labels, or import the spreadsheet you've been keeping. Start with the shelf you care about most.
Check before you buy, open what's ready, and log it on the way to the sink.
Enter your email and we'll send a link. Add ten bottles tonight and you'll already stop buying the ones you own.
Free to 100 bottles. No card, no password.
Enter your email and a sign-in link comes straight to your inbox. No password, no card — free for your first 100 bottles.
No password to remember — put in the address you signed up with and a one-click link comes to your inbox.