Wine Cellar: Know What You Own and What to Open

Find the Bottle Before You Choose the Wine

Sommo Premium combines a wine inventory with a visual rack and wall view. Keep bottle positions, sizes, purchase lots and costs together, share a rack, and move from “What do I own?” to “What should I open tonight?” without rebuilding your collection in another app.

Start with one rack and a few bottles you know well. Give the rack a name, set its rows, place the bottles and check the counts. Already have a spreadsheet or another cellar app? Import a CSV or XLSX file on the web and review the rows before confirming.

Get Sommo for your collection, or try the cellar playground before adding real bottles. The playground is a demonstration; your own cellar needs Premium.

The Wine Wall

Most collectors don’t keep every bottle in one place. The everyday reds live in the kitchen, the special bottles age in the basement, the office fridge holds the whites that need to be cold by 6pm.

Sommo renders all of it as a wall you can actually look at:

• A real wall, not a spreadsheet. Orbit the rack, pinch in until the name labels read, and step back to see the whole collection standing up.
• Glass that tells you what’s inside. Each bottle takes the colour of its wine type, and the foil collar carries its drinking-window state: Too Young, Approaching, Ready Now, Declining or Past Prime. A tappable legend explains every mark, with an illustrated guide behind it.
• Depth lanes. Racks can run up to twelve bottles deep, nose to tail, the way a real cellar does. The count badge shows what’s stacked behind the front bottle.
• Moves by hand. Long-press a bottle and it lifts off the wall; drag it to a new slot, on this rack or another, and it stays moved. The wall updates optimistically, no spinner between you and the wine.
• Named racks, each its own size. Kitchen, Cellar, Office, Wedding Stash. Each rack picks its own rows, columns, and depth.

Filter chips across the top show live counts by type, country, and grape, computed over the whole cellar, with a stats row you can tap to filter. For a wider look at how people set up storage at home, our first real wine cellar guide walks through the same split-kitchen-and-cellar logic.

Share Access to a Rack

Use rack sharing to coordinate a household collection or bottles you look after together. Before sending a link, agree who owns the stock and who needs access. After joining, check the owner and the permissions shown before making changes; access to a rack is different from an independently owned copy of its inventory.

If you are giving someone the physical bottles, agree that handover separately and check the inventory records afterwards. A shared rack, a collection import and a Sharing Party tasting serve different purposes.

A Collection You Can See

Every wine in your cellar shows the full details from its original scan: producer, vintage, grape varieties, region, tasting notes, and your personal notes. You see quantities at a glance, so you know whether you have one precious bottle or a case to work through.

Adding wines is fast. Scan a label and Sommo offers a placement card: pick the rack, tap a slot in the grid, set quantity, optionally add a note like “Anniversary dinner” or “Gift from Marco.” Done. You can also add from Wine Tasting Mode when a flight wine earns a place on your shelf.

When you open a bottle, mark it as opened. The slot frees up. Changed your mind? Undo it.

AI That Knows Your Cellar

The standout feature is AI food pairing. Tell Sommo what you’re eating and it looks at every bottle you own, across every rack, analyses the flavour profiles, and recommends the best match.

This isn’t a generic “red wine goes with steak” suggestion. The AI considers the specific wines in your collection. If you describe “grilled salmon with lemon butter,” it might recommend your Chablis over your Sauvignon Blanc based on the vintage and producer style. If you’re making a rich beef bourguignon, it’ll point you to the right Burgundy or Rhône bottle, and tell you which rack to grab it from. Browse more food and wine pairing guides on the site, then let Sommo narrow the answer to your shelves.

Pairing results are cached for 24 hours, so asking the same question twice doesn’t waste time.

Recent Searches You Can Revisit

Wine pairing is rarely a one-time decision. You plan a dinner over morning coffee, then come back to it at 6pm. The pairing sheet keeps your last 20 searches, with the meal description, the top pick, and a relative date. Tap any row to reopen the full result, re-enriched against the wines currently in your cellar (quantities, rack positions, anything you’ve consumed since).

Pairing to Journal in One Flow

Picking a wine is half the job. The other half is remembering what you drank.

On iOS, Android and HarmonyOS, each pairing pick has Open Bottle, which takes the bottle out of your cellar stock and moves it to Recently Opened so you can rate it while the impression is fresh, and Add to Journal, which opens a journal entry for that wine. Your journal entries feed your Wine Character Analysis.

Drinking Windows, with Context

A drinking window helps you plan when to open an age-worthy wine. It describes the progression from young through ready to declining, with vintage context, rather than promising that a particular bottle will be perfect on a particular date. The rack glyph is coloured by wine type with the outline tracking the window state: Too Young, Approaching, Ready Now, Declining or Past Prime.

The baseline assumes good, stable storage. In the cellar, each bottle has a storage setting (standard, verified ideal, cold, warm, fluctuating, unknown history or compromised), and any setting other than standard or verified ideal shifts its window. A storage setting is context you supply, not a measurement of everything a bottle has experienced, so read the adjusted window alongside its confidence. Once you have rated at least 3 vintage wines of the same grape as Solid Choice or Would Buy Again, windows for that grape can shift by up to 2 years; a single rating does not establish the ideal window for every wine.

On iOS, Android and HarmonyOS, Sommo sends a drinking window alert when a bottle enters its peak, at its midpoint, a year before the peak ends and once it is past its peak, so a good wine doesn’t get forgotten in the back of the cellar. The Today tab opens on a bottle you already own that is ready to drink now, its window card opens the approaching-bottles list, and Open Tonight picks the bottle most worth opening now, plus one or two runners-up. Tap the info button on any window for a plain-language guide to how the estimate is built. For the full method, see how drinking windows work and how Sommo estimates drinking windows.

For Collectors Who Drink

Sommo’s cellar isn’t built for people who want to chase auction prices. It’s built for people who buy wine to drink it and want to drink it well. Compare how it stacks up in our best wine cellar app comparison.

You scan a bottle at the shop. Sommo offers a rack and a slot. When the right moment comes, you ask the AI what to open, or you check Today. You open the bottle. You rate it. Simple.

Pair the cellar with your wine journal and you have a complete loop: buy, store, pair, drink, record. Every bottle gets the attention it deserves. And when the collection deserves a document, the cellar book typesets it.

Wine Insights reads the same cellar data back to you: bottle-weighted stats, drinking-window mix, top grapes and countries, and a cellar AI narrative that cross-references your journal taste where it helps.

Map a physical shelf first with the free wine rack planner, then bring real bottles, vintages and windows into Sommo.

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