The art of enjoying wine is an acquired sense. It takes quite a while to understand all the varieties and to develop your own favorites, but think of the fun you'll have trying! A fine wine is truly one of the finer things in life, and recently wine has been getting a lot of good press with respect to being good for your health. What more excuse do you need? A good place to get acquainted is the Basic Wine Lovers Page. This page will teach you the lingo, how to "speak" wine,
how to look at a wine, learn about the "nose" (how it smells) and even how to taste it. A down to earth approach to learning about wine with lots of other great links to send you to as well.
Want to read more about wine, or research a particular bottle or vintage for a review? Then you should check out these publications.This is an unbelievable site. It has all kind sof resources for the wine lover. Specialized software for tracking your favorite wines, and cellar items. Informations about building a cellar, equipment such as wine coolers and refrigerators, racking kits and assorted storage solutions.There is also a section for buying wine; wine prices; vintage info and new wines and less expensive wines. This is a must see information site - www.winetracking.com - go there now!
is the exciting, powerful, and truly unique, Microsoft Windows software application designed
from the ground up for capturing a lifetime of wine experiences!! Whether you have a cellar with
thousands of bottles to manage or you simply want to track the wines you drink and read about ....
Cellar! makes it easy and enjoyable with a clean, clear, and concise[screen shot] user interface. Cellar!
has features the others only dream about -- interactive query builder, limitless sorting and filtering
capabilities, barcodes, wine auction prices from The Chicago Wine Company, and more.
is a sensible "Real World" wine database and reference
program that runs on a PC, and whilst written for Windows 3.1 runs well
on Windows 95 and NT as well as OS/2 WIN and even at an acceptable speed on Apple computers using Windows emulation software.True, it has lots of features that most people don't bother using but these don't get in the way so if you're after something that's simple to use and makes turning your computer on a bit of fun then I think you'll like this program.
For the serious wine buff there's a lot of goodies to play with and for all of us the reference material which includes Robin Bradley's GoldBook data for 13,000+ wines from Australia, New Zealand and the USA with ratings, value, and best year to drink information, a complete glossary of Tasting, Winemaking and Viticultural terms, the maps, complete winery address details etc. etc. are a real bonus.
As for the database features, it of course stores, search's, sorts, reports and graphs just like every other database program does, its just that it does it better, is easier to use and provides a real solution to the problem we all have with our cellar, that is, the future and planning for it. Want to take a quick peek at some screen shots?
Some of its features are as follows:
For each wine, Cellar Savant can track: Vintage, Producer, Designation (Vineyard, Label), Appellation/Varietal Region, Type, Country Bottles acquired, remaining, and consumed Cost, Value, Rating Notes Free form, unlimited size Notes are an integral part of each wine's record: no unwieldy attached files requiring burdensome procedures to print, view, or backup. Take a look at the main screen
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