by james
21. June 2010 18:10
Too many wine collections suffer from doing nothing. Wine is chosen by memory or inspiration. Beneath this apparently carefree procedure lies a multitude of problems. Many of your wines will fail to catch your eye when they deserve to be chosen and will languish in the wine cellar till they waste away, while others will thrust themselves forward to be chosen at quite the wrong time of their potential lives.
You can choose to do the wrong thing by spending time and effort in recording the location of every bottle in your wine cellar. The reason you will want to do this is to allow you to select a wine from your wine cellar software, go to your racks and find the wine immediately. So what is wrong with this? The answer is that your computer database will display all the wines which it believes are in your cellar, but there will come a time when you will go to your cellar and discover the wine missing. This is because at some earlier time, you have chosen the wine, drunk it and forgotten to update your database. From this moment on your database is blemished. While the location of bottles may remain accurately recorded, their actual presence is now suspected. Once your inventory becomes suspect the whole effort of organizing a database becomes wasted.
The right thing to do is to recognize that there is a dichotomy between accuracy and wine drinking and use a system that overcomes these problems. By tagging every wine, the specific location becomes less important but you will always find your wine and your inventory will always be accurate. Numbered Vinote Wine Bottle Tags allow you to find your wine with ease, within a general area, and then become the memory prompt to later update your inventory.
Given that there is work involved in organizing a cellar, it is essential that you start with a system that will have ongoing stability and accuracy. Regard inventory control as your prime objective and your cellar will remain organized for ever. Vinote Wine Cellar Programs make the whole process so easy.