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The gastronomic, financial, intellectual, aesthetic, and social pleasures of wine collecting often lead to the necessity to create and maintain a wine cellar. This down-to-earth guide to conceiving, building, and using one offers in-depth explanations of the whys and wherefores. The text explores such fundamentals as understanding ideal storage conditions, designing the cellar, and choosing the appropriate storage apparatus for a particular collection. Goldberg explains the principles of organization (by grape, region, producer, and vintage, among others), and offers guidance on stocking cellar by acquiring bottles from merchants, wineries, mail order, and auction. He also suggests defining goals, such as short-term drinking or investment for resale, in order to plan the best wine cellar possible for each individual's needs. The book is accompanied by a CD with specially designed software to help you record and keep track of your wine collection. Both the CD and the book are packaged in a beautiful binder with paper included on which to print a restaurant-quality wine list.
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Bogus Software; good booklet (39/39 votes)I received the Wine Cellar System as a Christmas present. It consists of a very limited "database" for keeping track of wines, a folder with some fancy parchment paper, and a booklet on wine cellaring. The booklet is very interesting but should cost about $10. This is most lame program I have ever seen and the publishers should be ashamed to offer something like this. It has no preloaded content and is nothing more than could be easily created in Excel or Access. Don't waste your money on this one.
Software is awful (20/20 votes)I agree with the earlier reviewer. I was shocked at how simple the software is. The entry page for each wine is fairly comprehensive, but if you want to print a full list of wines, the program sets about half a dozen fields set fields which cannot be customized. Whether you want those fields or not, that's what you are stuck with. Also annoying, the software does not allow you to "minimize" the program. You have to "quit" the program to look at something else on your computer. This makes it impossible to easily reference other electronic materials (like the Wine Spectator's web site) or cut and paste from different source while inputting data into the wine software. It's like they never bothered to update software that was developed 10 years ago.
One star because there is no ZERO star rating (8/11 votes)This product is so bad it should be removed from Amazon's inventory. It is a total rip off
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