Wine

Your cellar, and when to open it.

Have you ever opened a bottle too early, or found one you saved past its best?

Check a bottle and Junior saves when to drink it, but only when the producer says or two sources agree.

What you have, what's open, what goes with dinner, what it's worth, and every bottle you've had.

Each wine gets its own page: the label, every vintage you have, what's open, what it cost, and what you thought of it.

A wine's page in Junior: the Lacombe Cellars Reserve Red 2018 label, its vintages, an open bottle with about two glasses left, ready now, what was paid and what it costs now.

With dinner

What goes with what you're cooking

Put a meal on the calendar and Junior looks through the bottles you actually have for ones that go with its dishes, with one line on why. Bottles whose window is closing come first.

Each wine also keeps what it pairs with, and the recipes of yours that fit.

Wine from your cellar for Saturday dinner: a Côtes du Rhône whose fruit stands up to the lamb, marked drink by 2026, and the Lacombe Cellars Reserve Red that pairs well with lamb.

A wine's Pairs well with section: lamb, mushrooms, cheese and spicy dishes as chips, and recipes from your own collection that suit it.

Drink windows

When to open it, with where that came from

Press Check window and Junior searches for that exact wine and vintage. It saves a window only when the producer states one, or when at least two independent sources agree, and it keeps the sources so you can read them.

If it can't find that, it says there's no window yet rather than guessing. Years you set yourself always stand.

A wine's drinking window as a timeline from 2021 to 2030 with today marked, labeled Ready now, drink by 2030, and the producer, a critic and a merchant listed as its sources.

Open bottles

Open until it's finished

An opened bottle stays open across nights, at the top of your cellar, until you finish it. Pour from it, or from a Coravin, and say how much was yours.

Only your glasses count as drinks in Health. The bottle leaves the cellar once.

An open bottle card for the Lacombe Cellars Reserve Red 2018: open since Sep 29 with about three glasses left, buttons to pour from it or finish it, and how many glasses were yours.

Prices

What you paid, and what it's worth now

Paid comes from your own cellar log: every bottle you bought, at its price. A gift is a gift, never a made-up number.

Now is the middle of the retail listings Junior finds for that vintage, with the shops named. When a check isn't sure, it stores nothing. Prices are yours alone.

A wine's price for the 2018: paid $38 to $46 from the cellar log against about $58 now, the retail range, and the shops it was found at.

Drank

Every bottle you've had

At home, at a restaurant, with which dinner: every bottle you've opened, dated, with your notes. A wine's own page keeps its history as a journal.

The Drank list: bottles grouped by month, each with where and when it was opened, the meal it went with, and how many glasses.

A wine's history as a dated journal: Coravin pours, a bottle opened with dinner, and bottles bought.

Independent

What we aren't

Not a big tech company
Junior is independent. It isn't owned by Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon or Microsoft.
We don't sell your data
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Every company your data passes through is named on the Privacy page.
Private until you share
What you add is yours alone until you share one thing with one person, and they can say no.
Your chats don't train AI
Junior's assistant runs on Claude, from Anthropic, under terms that say Anthropic may not train its models on what you send.

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