Getting Started with Cellarion: Your Complete Guide

Creating Your Account Head to cellarion.app and register with a username, email, and password. You'll receive a verification email — click the link to activate your account, and you're in. If you already have an account, just log in and tick Remember Me to stay signed in. Your First Cellar Once logged in, you'll land on My Cellars — the heart of the app. Think of a cellar as a collection. It could represent your actual physical cellar, a wishlist, bottles at a vacation home, or any grouping that makes sense to you. Creating a cellar Hit the Create Cellar button, give it a name and an optional description, and pick a color to make it easy to spot. That's it — your first cellar is ready. Owned vs. shared Your cellars are split into Owned and Shared . Owned cellars are ones you created. Shared cellars are ones other users have invited you to collaborate on — more on sharing later. Setting a default If you have several cellars, you can set one as your default . This is the cellar that opens first and the one the app assumes you're working with when you use quick-access features. Adding Bottles Navigate into a cellar and tap Add Bottle . The process has two steps. Step 1 — Find your wine You have three ways to identify the wine: Search the database: Start typing the wine name and Cellarion's fuzzy search will suggest matches from the shared wine registry. This is usually the fastest path. Scan a label: Use your phone camera to snap a photo of the bottle label. Cellarion's AI vision reads the label and extracts the wine name, producer, vintage, and other details automatically. Manual entry: If the wine isn't in the database and you don't have a label handy, type the details yourself and submit a wine request for the admin team to review. Step 2 — Add your details Once the wine is identified, fill in your personal details: Vintage — the year on the bottle Price and currency — what you paid Purchase details — date, location, and an optional URL for reordering online Bottle size — standard 750ml or something else Notes — anything you want to remember about this bottle Rating — your personal score Photo — upload a picture; the app automatically removes the background for a clean look You can add multiple bottles of the same wine at once if you bought a case. Browsing Your Collection Back in the cellar view, your bottles appear in either a grid or list layout — switch between them with the view toggle. Filtering and sorting Use the filters to narrow things down: Filter by vintage to see only a specific year Filter by wine name to find a particular bottle Filter by minimum rating to surface your favorites Sort by various criteria to organize the view Bottle detail Tap any bottle to see its full detail page. Here you'll find: Complete wine information — name, producer, type, grapes, region, appellation Your personal rating and the community's average rating Purchase details and price history Drink-window status — is this bottle too young, in its early drinking phase, at peak, getting late, or past its prime? Rack location if you've placed the bottle in a rack Community reviews of this wine From the detail page you can edit the bottle, consume it (marking it as drunk, gifted, or sold), write a public review , upload photos , or report incorrect data . Organizing with Racks If you want to map your physical cellar layout, open the Racks tab inside any cellar. Creating racks Create a rack, give it a name (e.g. "Left Wall Bottom" or "Kitchen Cooler"), and you get an 8×4 grid representing the physical slots. You can create as many racks as you need. Placing bottles Drag and drop bottles from your collection into specific grid positions. This lets you know exactly where each bottle lives — no more digging through shelves. NFC tags Cellarion supports NFC tag scanning . Stick an NFC tag on a physical rack and scan it with your phone to jump straight to that rack in the app. Consuming from the rack When you pull a bottle from the rack, you can consume it directly from the rack view — the slot clears and the bottle moves to your cellar history. The 3D Room View For a more visual experience, switch to the Room tab in your cellar. This gives you an isometric 3D view of your cellar space where you can position your racks in a virtual room layout. Use edit mode to drag racks around and arrange them how they sit in real life. The view supports undo/redo , and the app warns you if you try to navigate away with unsaved changes. Cellar History Every bottle you consume goes into your History tab. This is your wine diary — a record of everything you've drunk, gifted, or sold. Bottles are grouped by reason (drank, gifted, sold, other), and all your tasting notes and ratings are preserved. You can search through your history and see summary statistics of your consumption over time. Sharing a Cellar Wine is better shared. From any cellar you own, open the Share option in the menu. You can invite other Cellarion users and assign them a role: Vi