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Cellar Management

OENARI's cellar system mirrors your physical storage. Every bottle has an exact location — a specific slot in a specific module in a specific 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 four tabs:

  • Overview — Your cellar at a glance. Storage quality score, bottle count, free slots, occupancy, and quick access to each module.
  • Manage — Create, edit, and remove modules and sections.
  • Relocate — Bulk move tools for reorganizing your cellar (coming in a future update).
  • Finder — AI-powered wine pairing and smart search across your collection (coming in a future update).

Modules

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

Module Types

OENARI currently supports three module types:

  • Rack — A traditional wine rack with rows and columns. The most common setup for home cellars.
  • Wine Cooler — A temperature-controlled unit. Configured the same way as a rack, but represents a cooler or fridge.
  • Wall Rack — A single-row horizontal display rack.

Additional module types, including wine crates, are planned for future updates.

Creating a Module

Go to Manage and tap the module type you want to create. Give it a name, set the number of rows and columns, and save. Each cell in the grid becomes one slot. Your new module appears immediately in the Overview tab.

Editing a Module

From the rack detail view, tap Edit to change a module's name or dimensions. You can resize a module — but keep in mind that removing rows or columns that contain bottles requires relocating those bottles first.

Sections

Sections let you group rows within a module — 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 — choose from yellow, green, pink, purple, or blue. The color is displayed directly in the rack grid as a sidebar alongside the rows, giving you an immediate visual overview of how your rack is organized.

Managing Sections

Go to Manage and tap Manage sections. Select either Racks or Wine Coolers, then pick the module you want to organize. From here you can:

  • Add a section — Give it a name, select the row range (start and end row), 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 assign a bottle.
  • Occupied — Contains a bottle, shown with a color indicator matching the wine type (red, white, rosé, sparkling, etc.). Tap it to view the bottle details.

Placing a Bottle

Tap an empty slot in the rack grid. OENARI shows you all 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 bottles during the Add Wine flow — at the end of adding a wine via the FAB button, you'll be asked to choose a slot.

Relocating Bottles

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

EAN Scan Relocate (Fastest)

Tap the FAB button and choose Relocate wine in my cellar. Scan the bottle's barcode — OENARI identifies it instantly. Then select the destination module, row, and column. Done. No searching, no scrolling.

From Wine Detail

Find the bottle in your wine list on the My Wines screen, tap it to open details, and choose Relocate from the actions menu. Pick the new destination module, row, and column.

From Rack Grid

Tap an occupied slot in any rack grid to view the bottle. From there you can relocate it to a different slot in any module.

All three methods let you choose the destination by selecting a module, then a row, then a column — only empty slots are shown as options.

Bulk Relocate

A dedicated bulk move tool for reorganizing multiple bottles at once is planned for a future update and will be available in the Relocate tab.

Cellar History

OENARI keeps a complete movement history for every bottle. You can see where a bottle has been stored, when it was placed, when it was moved, and how long it spent in each location. This history is tied to the wine's overall history, so you get a full timeline 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:

  • Storage quality score — Based on the conditions you set when creating your cellar (temperature stability, vibration, ventilation, bottle position). OENARI may also show warnings if your conditions could affect your wines.
  • 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 — Each module shown with its name and current fill level (e.g. "51/80"). Tap any module to open its rack grid.

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.
  • EAN relocate is your friend. When you're reorganizing, keep OENARI open and scan-and-place each bottle. It's faster than you'd think.
  • Don't over-plan. Start with your actual setup. You can always add modules, resize, and reorganize later.

Video Walkthrough

A video walkthrough of cellar management will be available here soon.