October 6, 2026Saying What the Reviews Showv0.31.0
NewWhen critics disagree about where a wine is in its drinking window, the weekly brief says so in a "Data note" — for example, that some put the end of the window at one year and others at another, or that some say to wait. A wine with that note is never the headline.
ImprovedCounts behind a drinking window now say what they count: "Based on 8 reviews from 5 publications". This wording is used throughout the app and the weekly brief.
ImprovedWhen we don't have market prices or reviews for your vintage of a wine, its note says so ("We don't have data for the 2011 vintage of this wine, so this covers the wine in general") rather than describing the vintage. The bottle chat and the AI Sommelier follow the same rule.
ImprovedCritic cards on Analytics now say where the wine sits in its drinking window: not yet open, early, in the middle, late, or past. They suggest opening a bottle to see how it's developing only when the wine is early in its window and you hold several bottles.
ImprovedIf you've told us a bottle was priced as the wrong wine, the message now says why there's no price and points you to "Choose a wine to price it as".
October 6, 2026What Deserves Your Attentionv0.30.0
NewThe weekly brief now opens with what deserves your attention: a headline and up to four items, such as wines at or past the end of their drinking window, notable price moves and wines entering their window. Each item shows its basis: where the window comes from, or how many retail offers stand behind a price. Every line is built directly from your cellar's data, so you can see what it rests on.
NewWhen a price move may reflect a change in what's listed rather than a like-for-like price change, the brief says so in a "Data note", and that wine is never the headline.
Improved'What moved' now counts only moves backed by enough recent retail offers, and lists them by their dollar effect on your bottles.
ImprovedFor now, the weekly email and notes report prices and drinking windows and leave the decision to you. Sell and hold guidance will return when it rests on realized sale prices.
October 5, 2026Buttons in the Clearv0.29.1
FixedMessages no longer cover the bottle's Drank one / Sold / Edit buttons.
October 4, 2026The Right Wine, Named Rightv0.29.0
FixedChoosing a wine from the Add a Bottle list now fills in the producer and wine name correctly. Some wines — often second wines like Duluc de Branaire-Ducru — used to land with the wine's name in Producer and the château's name in Wine Name.
FixedChoosing a different wine from the list now updates region, country and category too. Previously, picking a second wine in the same form kept the first wine's region and country.
NewAfter you choose a wine from the list, the form shows "Matched to" with the wine it will be valued as. If you then change the producer or wine name, the match is cleared and we find the right wine for you after you save.
FixedScanning a back label no longer picks up the QR code printed next to the barcode. The scanner now reads only bottle barcodes, and waits for two matching reads before looking a barcode up, so a quick or blurry pass can't fill the form with the wrong wine.
October 4, 2026Scanning That Finishes the Jobv0.28.0
FixedScanning a barcode no longer stops at "Barcode found". If we don't know the barcode yet, the scanner says so and asks you to turn the bottle around and photograph the front label, then fills in the Add a Bottle form from the photo.
FixedA scan on an empty cellar now fills in the form with what was read, instead of opening a blank form.
NewOne scanner everywhere. Scan from the cellar, from the Add a Bottle form ("Scan a barcode or label", above Producer), from the welcome screen ("Scan a bottle") or from Import — it's the same scanner, and it works the same way.
NewWhen a label photo matches a wine we know, the form uses that wine's name and says what it was matched to — for example "Matched to Chappellet, Signature Cabernet Sauvignon" — so a signature or decorative script on the label can't end up as the wine's name. Your label's own spelling is kept when the only difference is accents.
ImprovedIf a label can't be read, the form still opens and tells you which details to check. If the camera is blocked or there isn't one, you can upload a photo of the label or add the bottle by hand.
ImprovedA barcode never sets the vintage — the same barcode is printed across many years — so after a barcode scan the form asks you to add it.
October 3, 2026Request Full Accessv0.27.0
NewRequest full access from inside the app. During early access, full access is free and turned on by hand while we admit collectors in small groups; you'll get an email when yours is on. Wherever the app used to offer an upgrade, it now offers "Request full access", and once you've asked, the button shows "Requested".
ImprovedNo prices anywhere in the app. Settings → Billing and Profile now show your real plan — Free or Full access — and full access during early access reads "early access, no charge". Founding members see "your terms are unchanged".
ImprovedOn a free account, Billing now shows the free limits: 50 lots valued and 50 AI Sommelier messages a month.
October 3, 2026Free During Early Accessv0.26.0
NewCellar IQ is free during early access. The pricing table on our homepage is replaced by the terms, stated plainly: no charge and no card on file through at least March 31, 2027; we will email you at least 30 days before anything changes; and there will always be a free plan.
ImprovedA fuller Security section on the homepage, limited to what we can stand behind: each account's data is isolated at the database level, data is encrypted at rest, your data is never sold, and you can export it anytime on every plan.
October 2, 2026When Your Price Is Fromv0.25.0
NewEvery bottle now shows the date of its latest market price, and a clock marks prices more than 90 days old.
October 1, 2026How Much Critics Agreev0.24.0
NewA drinking arc in the bottle drawer. For wines with drinking windows from three or more publications, the drawer now shows how many of those publications consider the wine ready in each year — too young, approaching, ready, peak agreement, past peak — with this year marked, and the years where they agree most strongly called out. Each publication counts once, however many of its critics reviewed the wine. The line beneath still tells you what the window rests on, such as "Median of 7 critics' windows". Your own or imported window sits above the arc and always comes first.
ImprovedThe arc's timeline now runs as far as the windows do, so long-lived wines are no longer cut off at 2050.
ImprovedBottles without a vintage no longer show critics' drinking windows. For non-vintage Champagne the right window depends on the release, so the drawer says so instead of showing an average across releases; for other wines, add the vintage to see critics' views of your bottle. A window you entered yourself still shows.
ImprovedDrinking windows from critics now draw on every critic who has published a window for your wine and vintage, each counted once, instead of the first one we found.
New"Priced as the wrong wine?" Every bottle shows the wine it is priced as. If that's the wrong wine, search our catalog and choose the wine to price it as, and the value is recalculated straight away. If your wine isn't there, you can stop pricing that bottle — which also removes the drinking window that came from the wrong wine.
FixedThe Sommelier's note now reads cleanly, without stray formatting marks, and it is rewritten when you change a bottle's details instead of describing the wine it used to be.
ImprovedNon-vintage Champagne and whiskies are now valued from a current daily market price instead of a broader average, so their values follow the market more closely.
ImprovedWhen there is no recent market price for your bottle's vintage, its value now stays on the last market price for that vintage rather than switching to an average across other vintages. An estimate across vintages is used only when your vintage has never had a market price, and it is marked ≈.
September 26, 2026Where Your Drinking Window Comes Fromv0.23.0
NewEvery drinking window now says where it came from. A window you entered or imported is shown as "Your window" or "Imported window", and it always takes precedence. A window drawn from critics is shown as "Critics", with how many critics it rests on: "1 critic's window", "2 critics' windows", or "Median of N critics' windows".
New"Re-derive window from critics" in the bottle drawer. It refreshes the critic window from current reviews and never touches a window you entered or imported. If critics have no drinking window for a wine, nothing changes, and the drawer says so.
ImprovedCritic windows now stay current instead of freezing at the first, thinnest value. Previously a window was written once — often from a single review — and never updated as more reviews arrived. Critic windows are now refreshed with valuations, and only critic windows are ever refreshed.
ImprovedImported drinking windows are kept as yours. Windows that came in from a CellarTracker or spreadsheet import are now labelled as imported, with the critic window shown beside them for comparison, rather than being mixed in with ours.
ImprovedEmails, the AI sommelier, analytics and your cellar export all use the same window you see in the drawer, and the export now includes where each window came from and the critic count behind it.
September 23, 2026You Control the Matchv0.22.0
NewChange a bottle's market match yourself. Every bottle now has "Change match" — or "Find a match" if it was never matched — so when the catalogue record behind your valuation is the wrong one, you can search for the right record and pick it. The value is recalculated from the new record straight away.
NewRemove a match you know is wrong. If we matched a bottle to a record that is not your wine and there is no better one, you can remove the match, and we will not match that bottle to that record again. Other records stay available, so a correct match can still be found later. Undo is one click.
ImprovedSearching for a match finds far more of what we hold. The search was requiring every word you typed to appear in the catalogue's own name for a wine, so bottles recorded as "Weller Special Reserve 12 yr" or "Colonel EH Taylor Rye" came back empty even though we held those exact records. It now widens the search step by step until it finds something.
FixedSpirits imported from a spreadsheet without a type column are no longer filed as wine. Bourbons and whiskies were being described with food pairings and vintage notes instead of distillery and cask commentary. Affected bottles have been recategorised and their notes cleared so they regenerate correctly.
ImprovedA bottle with no vintage is no longer described as having a vintage-specific price. For a wine that has vintages, the value is an average across all of them, and the bottle now says so — with a prompt to add the year and get a price for the bottle you actually own. Spirits and non-vintage Champagne are unaffected, because for those the price really is specific to the product.
September 20, 2026Trustworthy Numbersv0.21.0
FixedA bottle we cannot confidently identify no longer carries a market price. Where a value could not be traced to a specific catalogue record, it has been cleared and the bottle now says so plainly — a number you cannot trace is worse than no number at all.
ImprovedClearer language when a bottle is not matched. "Not matched to a market record" and "Matching in progress — we'll retry automatically" replace a single ambiguous message, so you can tell a permanent miss from one we are still working on.
NewMatch check in the bottle drawer. When the catalogue record behind a price disagrees with what you entered — a different age statement, bottling year, or batch — the drawer tells you, instead of quietly showing the number.
FixedWine filed under "Other" is now categorised from the catalogue, and the AI has stopped describing it as a spirit. Bottles in that bucket were receiving distillery-and-cask commentary in place of vintage, producer and food-pairing notes. Their categories are corrected and the stale notes cleared, so they regenerate properly the next time you open them.
FixedSample data no longer seeds bottles that cannot be priced.
September 16, 2026Critic Data & Match Transparencyv0.20.3
ImprovedCritic coverage now reads as a distribution — how many critics reviewed a wine, how many scored it 95 or above, the score range, and the most recent tasting date — in place of individual critic names and per-critic scores.
NewEvery valued bottle now shows which market record priced it, so you can see what your valuation is actually based on.
NewPrices drawn from a different vintage are now badged as such, rather than presented as a match for the bottle you own.
FixedA price lookup can no longer overwrite a match you chose yourself when adding a bottle.
FixedCritic scores published on a 20-point scale are no longer read as percentages, and a critic listed twice for the same wine is now counted once.
FixedProducer names no longer double up — "Dom Pérignon, Dom Pérignon" now reads once, including where accents differ between our records and yours.
July 6, 2026Weekly Scan Reliabilityv0.20.2
FixedWeekly scan emails are sending again. A slow — but successful — response from our market data provider was being treated as an outage, which silently skipped the scan for everyone. Slow responses are now handled as degraded rather than down, and the missed scans were re-sent to every affected account.
June 28, 2026Preferences & Provenancev0.20.1
NewBottle history now records manual quantity changes, with an optional reason, alongside the drinks, sales and gifts it already tracked. Every bottle already in your cellar was backfilled with an "Added" entry, so the timeline starts when the bottle arrived rather than when this shipped.
NewGuides now appear on the homepage, between the product explainer and pricing.
ImprovedYour default landing page preference works — choose where Cellar IQ opens after sign-in and it is honoured for email, Google and magic-link sign-in alike.
ImprovedSigning in returns you to the page you were trying to reach, instead of always dropping you on the cellar.
ImprovedSettings no longer offers preferences that do nothing. Currency, valuation method, unit and date-format options that are not yet built are disabled and marked "coming soon" rather than quietly ignoring your choice.
ImprovedService status banners now appear for major provider outages even when the provider attaches no component detail — previously those were missed entirely.
FixedEditing a bottle that was missing a producer or wine name no longer fails to save.
FixedA quantity adjustment made in the evening no longer records tomorrow's date.
ImprovedArticles are now bylined to The Cellar IQ Team.
June 14, 2026Selling & Historyv0.20.0
NewRecord a sale when you sell a bottle — capture the sale price, any fees, the channel, and the date, and Cellar IQ shows your net proceeds and realized gain in both dollars and percent against your original cost basis. Changed your mind? Undo any sale for 24 hours.
NewShow consumed & sold on the cellar — a toggle brings your past bottles back into view, muted and clearly badged Consumed, Sold, or Gifted, so your history is one click away without cluttering your active collection. Off by default.
NewGuides — two new long-form guides, "How to value your CellarTracker collection" and "When to sell wine from your cellar," now live alongside a dedicated CellarIQ vs CellarTracker comparison page with a three-step migration walkthrough. Find them under Articles.
ImprovedCellar values now refresh daily — the weekly market refresh moved to a nightly cadence, so your portfolio value and gain/loss stay current without waiting for the week to turn.
ImprovedCleaner wine names in your weekly scan email and AI Sommelier — when a producer's name was repeated inside the wine name, it now reads once. Less clutter in the surfaces that quote your bottles back to you.
May 31, 2026Sharper Bottle Entryv0.19.1
FixedProducer search now finds your wine even when you type the full everyday name. Searching "Château Petrus" — or any name with extra leading words like Château or Domaine — now surfaces the right bottle, where it previously could return nothing. Search matches on each word rather than the exact phrase.
FixedNo more contact-card prompt over Add a Bottle on iPhone. Tapping into a field used to trigger a full-width "AutoFill Contact" bar across the form; it no longer appears.
ImprovedProducer, wine, and region names no longer show spellcheck underlines as you type.
May 23, 2026Cleaner Analyticsv0.19.0
ImprovedPortfolio analytics now groups your lots — when you own the same wine from several purchases, Holdings, concentration, producer count, and drinking-window pressure show it as one combined row instead of repeating it. Your individual lots, each with its own cost basis and provenance, stay intact in the cellar view.
ImprovedMarket-move highlights now name the wine — each weekly market-move note on Analytics shows the producer, wine, and vintage above it, so you can see at a glance which bottle moved.
ImprovedWeekly scan email — your portfolio value and the week's biggest price moves now stand out in bold, and the most time-sensitive line is set apart for emphasis, matching the in-app scan.
ImprovedCollection summary now reads "N lots · M producers" — clearer for cellars that include whisky, Champagne, and port.
May 17, 2026Sommelier & Settingsv0.18.0
NewAI Sommelier — the assistant now opens with an editorial daily briefing drawn from your actual cellar: a bottle in its drinking window, a notable market move with a price sparkline, or a critic re-score on something you own — up to three stories, each with contextual follow-ups. Past conversations are grouped by time in the sidebar, searchable, and auto-titled so you can pick up any thread where you left off.
NewSettings redesigned — nine sections replace the old two-tab layout. Your profile shows cellar value, bottle count, producers, and oldest vintage at a glance. A new Preferences section captures your currency, date format, default landing page, and valuation method, saved to your profile. Billing shows live usage against your plan limits.
NewDelete my account — GDPR-compliant self-service account deletion is now available under Settings -> Export & Danger. Your data, your call.
ImprovedPortfolio analytics — value-over-time chart now shows percentage gain on the right axis alongside absolute value. Concentration heatmap shows value contribution by region, not just bottle count. Sub-region labels no longer show a contradictory parent region alongside them.
ImprovedName display — producer names with accents now display correctly across the cellar, analytics, movers panel, and weekly digest (Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Chateau Petrus, and others).
May 15, 2026Movers & Reliabilityv0.17.0
NewPortfolio Movers are live — the Analytics page now shows which bottles gained or lost the most value over the past 7 days, with sparkline price charts for each mover.
NewFree tier AI messages upgraded to 50 per month (previously 5 per day) — a more generous limit on a calendar-month window.
NewSommelier valuation nudge — the AI assistant now surfaces a prompt to add live valuations when bottles are unvalued, so your sommelier has accurate portfolio context.
ImprovedRegion and critic data accuracy — fixed an underlying issue that broke region enrichment and critic scores on valued bottles. Newly valued bottles now resolve this data correctly; previously affected bottles update as they are re-valued.
FixedPassword reset flow — reset links now reliably land on the set-password form. Previously, clicking a reset link could return "Auth session missing" instead of the password form.
FixedLogin UX — your email address is now preserved after a failed login attempt. Password show/hide toggle added to the login and password reset screens.
May 9, 2026Analytics V2v0.16.0
NewConcentration metrics — see what share of your portfolio sits in the top 1, top 5, and top 10 bottles by value. Built for collectors thinking about diversification and risk.
NewComposition donuts and a vintage × region heatmap — visualize the shape of your cellar at a glance: by category, by country, by region, and by where your cost basis sits across vintages and regions.
NewTop 10 holdings, ranked by live value — a clean leaderboard of your highest-value rows with cost, current value, gain, and allocation share, linked through to the full collection view.
NewMovers and drinking-window pressure — a panel for bottles whose market price has shifted recently and bottles approaching, in, or past their drinking window. The drinking-window section is live now. The movers section is built and is waiting for several weeks of price history to accumulate before it can show meaningful 7-, 30-, and 90-day changes.
NewRecent Activity feed on the Analytics page — a chronological surface for bottles added, marked consumed, and other recent cellar changes.
NewReference-data disclaimer on analytics surfaces — pricing data is informational, sourced from secondary-market references, and may differ from realized prices. Cellar IQ is not investment advice.
FixedCellarTracker import column routing — purchase source, location, and quantity columns are now mapped correctly when CellarTracker exports use non-default column ordering. The fix applies to new imports.
FixedScotch bottles correctly categorized as Whisky — some Scotch bottles were being categorized as Wine. Affected bottles have been corrected, and an LWIN-canonical category override now runs at every write site to prevent recurrence.
May 2, 2026Open Accessv0.15.0
NewFree tier raised to 50 visible bottles — Free accounts now show 50 bottles instead of 25. The full collection still imports and stores; the visible cap just doubled.
NewFree tier now gets live valuations on every bottle you add — adding a bottle to a free account now fetches a market reference value automatically across your visible 50. No refresh button, no manual step. Previously free accounts had to wait for the weekly cron or upgrade to see live prices.
NewCellar values now refresh automatically every Sunday — Cellar IQ runs a weekly cron that refreshes market values across your collection so prices stay current without manual action. Free accounts refresh their visible 50; Collector and Professional refresh their full cellar.
NewCellarTracker alternative landing page — a dedicated page comparing Cellar IQ to CellarTracker side-by-side, with a three-step migration walkthrough and direct CSV import.
FixedManual Add Bottle silent valuation failure — every bottle added through the Add Bottle form had been silently skipping its valuation lookup due to a parameter-shape mismatch in the valuation API. Now resolved. Affected bottles will populate values on your next "Refresh values" click in the cellar.
FixedPortfolio Value chart scaling and benchmark lines — the chart's Y-axis now adapts to your portfolio's actual value range instead of starting at $0, so the line stays visible at higher cellar values. S&P 500 benchmark comparison lines now render correctly even when your cellar's first snapshot lands on a weekend.
April 25, 2026Trust & Controlv0.14.0
NewExport your cellar to CSV — Settings → Your Data → Download my cellar. Full collection in one file: producer, vintage, quantity, cost basis, current market value, drinking windows, tasting notes. Available on every tier including free. Your data, your file, anytime.
NewAsk the Sommelier on every bottle — bottle drawer now has its own AI chat, scoped to that bottle. Ask about provenance, food pairings, the producer's house style, what to expect from the vintage. Persistent across sessions. Collector and Professional.
NewRefresh freshness band — the cellar page now shows when your collection was last refreshed and how many bottles changed value. Refreshing streams progress bottle-by-bottle instead of leaving you wondering if it's working.
NewService status visibility — when one of our infrastructure providers has a known issue affecting your experience, you'll see a clear banner explaining what's happening. No more wondering if it's you or us.
ImprovedLive market valuations — match rate jumped to over 90% across real cellars (97% on a 36-bottle test cellar). Long-tail wines that were silently returning "no market data" now resolve correctly, including cross-vintage pricing for hard-to-source years.
ImprovedWhisky support across the AI Sommelier — bottle drawer chat and AI Insights now branch on category. Whisky bottles get distillery, cask, and expression expertise. Wine bottles continue to get sommelier-style insights. No more wine-disclaimer mismatch on a Macallan or Hibiki.
ImprovedAuthentication emails — confirmation links, welcome emails, and password resets now arrive in seconds instead of minutes.
FixedAdd Bottle cost basis bug — when a purchase price was entered manually, it was also being stored as the bottle's market value, causing every manually-added bottle to show 0% gain or loss until refreshed. Affected bottles have been corrected — purchase price preserved, market value cleared. Click "Refresh values" in your cellar to repopulate live pricing on those bottles.
FixedWeekly scan timing — Sunday-night cron was colliding with date logic and producing stale week labels. Scans now run Monday morning UTC with correct week dates.
FixedVintage-aware pricing — live market valuation now tries the exact vintage first, falls back to nearest available vintage with a flag noting the substitution. Better than "no market data" for wines with thin pricing data.
April 16, 2026Scanning & Adminv0.13.0
NewScan a bottle — new entry point on the Import page. Point your camera at any barcode or label to add a bottle instantly.
NewBarcode auto-switch — if a barcode isn't recognized, the scanner seamlessly switches to label mode automatically. No dead ends.
NewCrowd-sourced barcode database — every successful label scan teaches the system. Next time anyone scans the same barcode, it returns an instant match with no camera required.
NewDedicated scan page — /cellar/scan opens directly into camera mode, pre-fills the Add Bottle form on match, and returns you to your cellar.
ImprovedLabel scan — camera now fills the full screen on Safari and Chrome iOS. Reticle enlarged for accurate capture. Continuous autofocus enabled.
ImprovedAdmin panel — plan change dropdown now renders correctly on all rows using fixed positioning. Never-returned user dimming now based on bottle count and return visits, not signup timestamp.
ImprovedAuto-valuation — adding a bottle manually now triggers a valuation lookup automatically. No manual refresh needed.
FixedPWA service worker — app routes no longer intercepted by cache, eliminating blank screen on navigation.
FixedCategory pre-fill — barcode matches now correctly set Wine vs Whisky in the Add Bottle form.
April 14, 2026Signup Flow & Design Refreshv0.12.0
NewCheck your email — after creating an account, you now see a clear confirmation screen showing exactly where we sent your link. No more wondering if it worked.
NewEmail confirmed page — clicking your confirmation link now lands you on a clean confirmation screen before signing in, instead of dropping you silently on the login page.
ImprovedLanding page redesign — full dark oak palette, live price ticker hero showing real secondary market data, updated How It Works section, and a sharper proof bar.
ImprovedSignup page — brighter labels, field borders, and footer text throughout. Easier to read at a glance.
April 12, 2026Smart Import, Label Scanning & Wine + Whiskyv0.11.0
NewSmart Universal Import — upload any spreadsheet in any format, any language. AI maps your columns automatically. French, Italian, Spanish headers all handled. Euro, GBP, USD pricing detected. Cases vs bottles handled per-row.
NewLabel scanning — point your camera at any wine or whisky label, fields pre-fill automatically via Claude Vision. Works on small French and Italian producers that barcodes can never find.
NewLWIN autocomplete — type 3 characters in Add Bottle, see up to 8 suggestions from 204,000 wines and spirits. Selecting pre-fills producer, wine name, region, country, and category automatically.
ImprovedBarcode scan UX — sheet stays open during lookup, 5-second timeout, automatic fallback to label scan if barcode not found.
ImprovedWine and whisky — CellarIQ now explicitly supports both wine and whisky collections. AI Sommelier updated with whisky-specific intelligence.
ImprovedImport navigation — two equal import options now visible from the first click: CellarTracker CSV and Universal Import.
ImprovedUI contrast — stat cards, sidebar active state, and portfolio value accent all sharpened.
April 2026Betav0.9
NewAdmin panel — full stats overview, user management (plan, founding member, email, delete), Netlify waitlist integration with invite emails
NewFounding member badge — gold pill in sidebar and callout card in Settings
NewSample data system — one-click load of 25 high-end bottles for new users to explore before importing
NewClear my cellar — danger zone in Settings with DELETE confirmation, optional conversation wipe
NewDaily digest cron — morning summary email at 6am EST via Vercel cron
NewPrivacy policy and terms of service (Whiskey Ventures LLC)
NewCellar IQ logo — SVG + PNG assets created and uploaded to Google OAuth consent screen