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Your First Cellar

OENARI uses a physical cellar model — every bottle can have an exact location in a module and slot. This guide walks you through creating your cellar and your first storage module so you're ready to start placing bottles.

Step 1: Create Your Cellar

Open the My Cellar tab in the bottom navigation. If you don't have a cellar yet, you'll see Welcome to Your Cellar with a Create My Cellar button.

Tap Create My Cellar and fill in:

  • Cellar Name — e.g. "Home Cellar" or "Country House" (required)
  • Cellar Type — Underground cellar, Basement, Closet / Cabinet, Wine cooler, Dedicated room, Garage, Kitchen, Apartment storage, or Other

Storage Conditions

Below the cellar info, you can rate your storage conditions. OENARI turns them into an environment score for your cellar, and warns you about anything that could harm the wine. You can rate:

  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Light Exposure — Dark through Direct Light / Sun
  • Vibration — None, Minimal, Moderate or Frequent
  • Temperature Stability — Stable through Large swings
  • Ventilation & Odors — Odor-Free through Strong Odors Nearby
  • Bottle Position — Horizontal, Slightly Tilted or Standing Upright

This is optional — you can skip it now and fill it in later under Profile → Settings → Cellar.

Tap Create Cellar. Your cellar now exists and is ready for storage modules.

Step 2: Add a Storage Module

A cellar without modules is like a room without shelves. On the Overview tab, tap Create module and choose what you want to create:

  • Wine Rack — rows × columns. Best for most home setups.
  • Wall Rack — a single column, for vertical display.
  • Wine Cooler — temperature-controlled shelves.
  • Diamond Rack — X-shaped storage in four sections.
  • Wine Crate — a fixed-size crate.
  • Cave Rack — arched vault storage.
  • External storage Premium — bottles kept with a third party, like a warehouse or merchant.

Choose a style, give the module a name (e.g. "Main Rack", "Kitchen Cooler"), set its size and confirm. Each cell in the grid becomes one slot — and each slot holds one bottle.

How many modules?

Free accounts can create 3 modules, Supporter 5, and Premium as many as you need. Some rack styles need Supporter or Premium.

Match your real layout

If your wine cooler has 6 shelves of 8 bottles, create a module with 6 rows and 8 columns. The closer your digital cellar matches your physical one, the more useful it becomes.

Step 3: Place Your First Bottle

Your module now appears on the Overview tab. Tap it to open the rack grid — you'll see all your slots laid out, empty and waiting.

To place a bottle, tap an empty slot, choose Place a wine here, and select a wine from your collection. If you haven't added any wines yet, do that first — see Adding Your First Wine.

With Supporter or Premium, OENARI also offers to place bottles right after you add them.

Slot labels

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.

Bottle limits

Free accounts can place up to 50 bottles, Supporter up to 300, and Premium has no limit. See Tiers & Pricing.

The My Cellar screen has three tabs:

  • Overview — your cellar at a glance: stored bottles, free slots, modules and occupancy, and each module's rack grid. Create new modules here.
  • Finder — search for a specific bottle across all your modules.
  • SmartCellar — insights about your cellar. See SmartCellar.

To edit, expand, divide into sections or delete a module, open it and tap Edit. To move a bottle, tap it in the rack and choose Relocate. See Cellar Management.

What's Next?

Your cellar is set up — here are some good next steps:

  • Adding Your First Wine — Add wines by search, barcode or label scan
  • FAB Button — The fastest way to add wines, record tastings, and relocate bottles
  • Cellar Management — Sections, editing modules, relocating bottles, and everything else your cellar can do