Wine Cellar II - Further Information

Easy to Use Design
Quick and Simple Wine Recording Process
Compatible with Vinoté Tags
Support for Racks and Bins with Visual Rack Display
Automatic Assignment of New Bottles to Empty Bins and Rack Locations
Complex Search Capabilities
Integrated Wine Buyer's Guide
Bar Code Support
Vertical Tastings
Graphs
Reports
Import your Existing Spreadsheet or Database
Minimum PC Specifications
Technical Information

Easy to Use Design

Despite it’s extensive features, the key strength of Wine Cellar II is it’s intuitive and easy to use design. Novices and experienced users alike will quickly become adept at using Wine Cellar II.

Wine Cellar II makes use of standard Windows features so that it looks and feels just like your other Windows applications:
- Automated install and uninstall
Intuitive menus, tool bars and icons
Windows Explorer type split-window interface for quick and easy browsing
Optional Tips displayed when starting the application.
Wizards to simplify multi-step tasks
Context sensitive help with step by step instructions
- Multiple pop-up windows
Double click on any list item to see more details
Full keyboard control and quick-keys for experienced users>

The flexible design of Wine Cellar II lets you use as many or as few of the features as you need. /p>

Wine Cellar Explorer

The wine cellar explorer lets you easily browse your wine collection by any general wine category:

There are also a number of quick view lists to browse your wine collection by other categories.

Recording Wines

When you add a new wine to Wine Cellar II, you can record as much or as little information as you want. The only items you must specify are the grape variety, brand, region and vintage. However the more information you have, the more graphs and reports you can make use of.

Buying More Bottles

For any purchase you can also record: - purchase date - purchase price - bottle size.

Compatible with Vinoté Tags

By incorporating Vinoté tags into your cellar your wines are easily found. You can hold on to the tag long after the wine has been drunk as a reminder that the bottle is still to be removed from Cellar II. This guarantees ongoing inventory accuracy at all times. Click to find out more about Vinoté Tags

Racks and Bins

By using the Rack Wizard you can create any number of racks up to 26 columns wide (A-Z) and 99 rows high (0-99). Each rack location is referred to by it's grid reference, for example B2. You can create any rack shape by setting non-existent locations to an unusable status.

Bins, which do not hold bottles by location, can hold up to 999 bottles.

Racks can be displayed visually to allow the block selection of bottles or simply to see how much room you have left. When you move the mouse over a bottle, it's number and description are displayed.

Or you can display a rack's contents as a list for sorting and viewing details in the usual way.

Automatically Assigns Bottles To Empty Rack Locations

When a bottle is removed from a rack or bin, it's location can be used by another bottle. When you purchase new bottles, you can have Wine Cellar II automatically assign the new bottles to available locations in the rack you choose.

You can then print a bottle movement list telling you where to place each bottle.

Or you can assign any unracked bottles to bins or rack locations of your choice. You have complete control.

Complex Searches

You can search for wines in your cellar by just about any category including food match, organic, when it was bought, ready for drinking or opened. When you have found the wine you want, Wine Cellar II can tell you how many bottles you have and where each bottle is.

Wine Buyer's Guide With Internet Updates

Wine Cellar II is also an integrated electronic wine buyers guide* with full browsing and search capabilities.

Internet Updates keep the buyer's guide up to date with the latest cellaring guidelines, tasting notes and other wine details. An Internet enabled wine guide need never be out of date.

Internet Updates are downloaded from the Internet by Wine Cellar II at the click of a button for viewing at any later time.

All of the following information can be downloaded:
- cellaring guidelines
- current retail price
- tasting notes (to compliment your own)
- quality rating (5-star)
- score (100-point)
- winemaker's rating for the vintage
- food matches
- bar code
- organic indicator

You can choose to update just the selected wine (shortest download time), all wines from all wineries (longest download time) or a range of options in between.

You also have single click access to a winery's web site if you need more information.

Switching between the buyers guide and your own cellar is done simply by toggling the All check-box. This tells Wine Cellar II to display either All wines or those you have in your cellar only.

*Internet access required to take advantage of the wine buyers guide. No wine details supplied with the software. Internet updates available from participating wineries only.

Bar Code Support

A bar code scanner can speed up many of the common functions performed within Wine Cellar II. Most bar code scanners do not need configuring or require any special drivers. They simply plug into the keyboard socket between the computer and the keyboard. Numbers scanned by the bar code are sent to the computer as if they were typed by the keyboard.

Wine Cellar II can store the bar code displayed on most wine labels. When you purchase one or more bottles of a wine, simply press F6 to initiate a bar code purchase operation, then scan the bar code. The wine's details are displayed for confirmation. You can then enter the quantity purchased and cost price and press Enter to complete the operation.

Bar codes (or your own numbering sequence) can also be assigned to individual bottles. As bottles are added, Wine Cellar II assigns bottle numbers sequentially starting at the number you set (default value is 1). You can change a bottle's number or the numbering sequence at any time.

Multiple bottles can be opened in a single operation by scanning each label bar code or each bottle's individual bar code. Whenever more than 1 bottle is found that matches a bar code, you will be prompted with the matching list to make your selection.

Vertical Tasting

Finding all wines that you have more than 1 vintage of is as simple as clicking the Vertical Tasting button on the toolbar.

For each wine, Wine Cellar II can tell you how many bottles you have of each vintage, when they are ready to drink, their ratings and retail prices.

Graphs

The obvious benefits of cellar management software over any manual system is the ability to summarise and analyse the wines you have at any time.

There are many graphs in Wine Cellar II to summarise your buying and drinking patterns and to analyse what you currently have in your cellar. These include:
- Quantity/cost of bottles bought each month
- Quantity/value of bottles opened each month
- Number of bottles ready for drinking each year
- Breakdown of current wines by colour/type, variety, region, country, vintage, quality rating or retail price
- Number of bottles in your cellar over time

Reports

You can print any browser window, quick view list, search query result, rack listing, bottle listing or graph as a neatly formatted report.

Lists of wines can also be printed with the location of each bottle.

Import Your Existing Spreadsheet or Database

If you already use a spreadsheet or database to manage your wine collection, you can import this data directly into Wine Cellar II using the clever import Wizard.

Wine Cellar II can import from (and export to):
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheets - up to Excel 97
- Microsoft Access databases - up to Access 97
- comma delimited text files

Wine Cellar II will also import your PMC Wine Cellar 99 database.

Minimum PC Specifications

A PC (Pentium 100MHz or faster) running Microsoft Windows 95 or later with 24MB Memory (32MB recommended), 22MB Disk Space and 640x480 VGA Screen (800x600 recommended).

Technical Information

Wine Cellar II has been developed using the latest 32-bit development tools. It is optimised for the Windows 95, 98 and NT environments, and therefor will not run under the Windows 3.1 operating system.

Download the Wine Cellar II Demonstration Version today and experience the powerful features for yourself.