To get to know and love your wine collection, you must know what wines are there to love.

The final act is to successfully remove each and every opened bottle from your wine database to ensure that your affections are for real bottles.

If you have used the Vinote system, you can relax.  All you have to do is retain the tags of opened bottles. Then, at a time that suits you, take the tags to your computer and, using the tag numbers as the reference (scanning the tag barcode if you have a scanner), remove each bottle from the database.  

If you don’t use Vinote tags, you have to recall every bottle opened.  This means that you must enter the removal of the bottle as you take it from the cellar (remembering that bottles are often returned to the cellar unopened), retain the bottle till you have approached your computer (beware of the tidying spouse on the morning-after), or maintain a list of opened bottles for entering in your computer at a later time.

Wine and memory make bad bedfellows.  Years of observation of cellars convinces us that most untagged cellars are inaccurate and unloved.  An inaccurate cellar list is almost valueless as a tool for wine selection.  

All cellars need an occasional stock take.  Printing a Location Report from Vinote Cellar and checking your bottle tags against this report will quickly bring your cellar-list back into a state of total accuracy and rebuild your knowledge and love of the wines therein.