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Cellar Management

OENARI's cellar system mirrors your physical storage. Every bottle can have an exact location — a specific slot in a specific module in your cellar. This guide covers everything beyond the initial setup: managing modules, organizing with sections, relocating bottles, and keeping your digital cellar in sync with your real one.

For creating your first cellar and module, see Your First Cellar.

The My Cellar Screen

The cellar screen has three tabs:

  • Overview — Your cellar at a glance: storage conditions, bottle count, free slots, occupancy, and every module. This is also where you create modules.
  • Finder — Search the bottles stored in your cellar by name, producer, or region. Each result shows where the bottle is; tap it to open the rack. With an empty search, Finder shows the bottles you placed most recently.
  • SmartCellar — An overview of your cellar and advice on what to drink next. See SmartCellar.

Modules

Modules are the physical storage units inside your cellar — racks, coolers, crates, and wall-mounted displays. Most modules are a grid of slots, and each slot holds exactly one bottle.

Module Types

  • Wine Rack — A traditional rack with rows and columns. The most common setup for home cellars.
  • Wine Cooler — A temperature-controlled unit, set up with shelves and positions like a rack.
  • Wall Rack — A wall-mounted display rack.
  • Cave Rack — Arched vault storage.
  • Diamond Rack — X-shaped storage in four triangular sections, for 24 or 40 bottles.
  • Wine Crate — A crate for 6, 8, 10 or 12 bottles.
  • External storage Premium — Bottles kept with a third party, such as a warehouse, merchant or winery. Instead of slots, you record who stores them and how to reach them, then add the bottles they hold.

Wine racks, wall racks and cave racks come in different styles. Standard is available on every tier, Modern with Supporter, and Professional with Premium (not for cave racks).

How Many Modules

Tier Modules
Free 3
Supporter 5
Premium Unlimited

Creating a Module

On the Overview tab, tap Create module. Choose what you want to create, choose a style where there is one, then set the size: rows and columns for a rack, shelves and positions for a cooler, or the capacity for a diamond rack or crate. Give it a name, check the summary, and confirm. The new module opens straight away.

Editing a Module

Open the module and tap Edit to change its name and, for types that have them, its style or orientation.

Wine racks and wine coolers can also be expanded: choose a direction (top, bottom, left, or right) and how many rows or columns to add. Existing bottles stay in place. A module can't be made smaller.

Delete module is at the bottom of the edit screen. It permanently removes the module and all its slots, and cannot be undone — move the bottles you want to keep first.

Sections Supporter

Sections let you group rows within a wine rack or wine cooler — for example, the top three rows for reds and the bottom three for whites, or grouped by country or region. Sections are visual organizers that make large racks easier to navigate.

Color-Coded Organization

Each section gets its own name and color, chosen from a palette of muted tones. The color is shown in the rack grid as a band alongside the rows, giving you an immediate visual overview of how your rack is organized.

Managing Sections

Open the module, tap Edit, and scroll to Sections. From here you can:

  • Add a section — Give it a name, select the row range (from and to), and pick a color.
  • Delete a section — Remove it from the module. The bottles in those rows stay in place — only the visual grouping is removed.

Sections cannot overlap — OENARI prevents you from assigning the same rows to multiple sections.

Slots

Every position in a module grid is a slot. Slots follow a letter + number format: the letter is the row (A, B, C…) and the number is the column (1, 2, 3…). So B-3 means row B, column 3.

Slot States

In the rack grid, each slot shows its current state:

  • Empty — Available for placement. Tap it to place a bottle.
  • Occupied — Contains a bottle, shown with a color indicator matching the wine. Tap it to see the bottle and its actions.
  • Reserved — Kept free for a bottle you're expecting.
  • Blocked — Not usable, for example a broken position.

Press and hold an empty slot to reserve or block it, with an optional reason. Tap a reserved or blocked slot to release it.

Placing a Bottle

Tap an empty slot in the rack grid. OENARI shows the wines in your collection that haven't been placed in a slot yet. Search or scroll to find the wine, tap it, and it's placed. If you haven't added any wines yet, see Adding Your First Wine.

You can also place a bottle from the My Wines screen: open its actions and choose Place, pick a module, then tap an empty slot.

Relocating Bottles

Need to move a bottle? There are several ways to do it:

Barcode Scan Supporter

Tap the FAB button and choose Relocate wine in my cellar. Scan the bottle's barcode — OENARI identifies it and shows where it is now. If you have several bottles of the wine, pick the one you're moving. Then choose the destination.

From My Wines

Find the bottle on the My Wines screen, open its actions, and choose Relocate. Pick the destination module — full modules are greyed out — then tap an empty slot.

From the Rack Grid

Tap an occupied slot in any rack grid and choose Relocate from the bottle's actions. Pick the module and tap an empty slot.

Bulk Move Premium

To move many bottles at once, open a module, tap Edit, and choose Bulk Move. Pick the destination module, then pair each bottle you're moving with the slot it's going to. Add as many rows as you need, then confirm. Bulk Move isn't available for wine crates.

Cellar History

OENARI keeps a movement history for every bottle: when it was placed, when it was moved, and when it was removed from a rack. This history is part of the bottle's timeline in Wine History, so you get a full picture from the moment a bottle enters your collection to when it's consumed.

Cellar Overview

The Overview tab gives you a bird's-eye view of your cellar:

  • Your cellar — Its name and type, with a storage score based on the conditions you set for it (temperature, humidity, light, vibration). If a condition could affect your wines, the most important warning is shown.
  • Stored bottles — Total bottles currently placed in slots.
  • Free slots — How many empty positions remain across all modules.
  • Modules — Number of storage modules.
  • Occupancy — Percentage of slots that are filled.
  • Module list — Your modules grouped by type, each with its name and fill level (e.g. "51/80 bottles"). Tap any module to open its rack grid.
  • External storage — Each storage provider with its bottle count.

Tips

  • Match your physical layout. The closer your digital cellar mirrors reality, the more useful it becomes. If your cooler has 6 shelves of 8, create a 6×8 module.
  • Use sections for large racks. A 12-row rack is hard to navigate without visual grouping. Color-coded sections make it manageable.
  • Barcode relocate is your friend. When you're reorganizing, keep OENARI open and scan-and-place each bottle. It's faster than you'd think.
  • Use Finder when you're standing at the rack. Search for the wine and go straight to its slot.
  • Don't over-plan. Start with your actual setup. You can always add modules, expand, and reorganize later.