Micava
Most collections outgrow memory long before they outgrow the cellar. You buy a case, someone gives you a bottle for your birthday, two more come back from a trip — and a year later you are opening doors trying to remember whether you still have that Barolo, and whether it is still worth waiting.
A wine inventory app solves that: one accurate list of what you own, how many bottles are left, where each one sits and when it is at its best.
Producer, wine name, vintage, grape varieties or blend, bottle size and how many bottles you still have of each.
A count is not an inventory. You should be able to walk to the right fridge, rack or shelf without opening five doors.
Drinking windows turn a static list into something useful — you can see what to enjoy now and what can wait a few more years.
If adding a bottle takes five minutes of typing, the inventory stops being accurate within a month.
Micava is built around those four questions — what you have, where it is, when to drink it, and what you thought when you opened it.
Take a photo of the label and Micava reads the producer, name, vintage, region and grapes for you. You review and adjust only what you want.
Recreate your fridges, racks and closets as they actually are — including irregular shapes — and place each bottle in its real position.
Wines are catalogued against a broad catalogue of grape varieties, so a monovarietal and a blend are both recorded properly instead of as free text.
Micava keeps track of drinking windows and shows them on your dashboard, so you can decide what to open tonight and what deserves more time.
When you consume a bottle it leaves your inventory and joins your tasting history, with your notes and the date you drank it.
Keep the cellar to yourself, or invite family and friends to manage it with you. You decide who gets access.
Micava is made for people with a personal collection rather than a commercial one — a wine fridge and a couple of racks, a converted closet, or a proper cellar under the house. If you have enough bottles that you occasionally forget one, an inventory is already worth keeping.
If you are still weighing up your options, we wrote an honest comparison of the best wine cellar apps — including where Vivino, CellarTracker and InVintory are the better fit.
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