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