Quick Overview of The Personal Wine Curator

Overview

Welcome to the Personal Wine Curator™, the feature rich cataloguing and food pairing software for PC and Mac that takes organizing your wines to a whole new level!

Please take the time to register and authorize your copy of PWC now.

With this program you can easily:

Keep track of your entire collection
Remember wines you tasted or have on a wish list
Identify "drink by" dates and track the maturity status of your wines
Keep track of the cost and value of your wines, as well as your purchasing history
Search the internet instantly for information on your wine
Import old wine records from Excel, Word, and other text documents
Print detailed reports and lists
Print I.D. labels for your bottles
Pair your wines with specific foods
Make menus for dinners and tastings
Upgrade from version 1 of PWC

The following notes will help you get started quickly:

To display PWC properly, be sure your monitor’s resolution is set to 1024x768.

Windows users: Be sure to keep your Status Bar hidden. (Do this by selecting "View" in the Drop-Down Menus and uncheck "Status Bar.")

All entry and editing of wines is done from the Wine Tab entry form and its related tabs.

Click the “New Wine” button on the Navigation Bar to go to the entry form.

Click on any“Edit” button next to a wine in a list to go directly to the entry form for that wine.

Don’t forget to enter the wine’s producer in the Producer field.

Always choose a Distinction in order to generate aging potential and food pairing suggestions.

For quick record entry, begin typing in any field with a down arrow and the field will populate automatically when a drop-down list is available. (PWC has pre-loaded lists for Producer, Varietal, Type, Sub-region, Region, Country, Distinction, and Body.)

If you're not sure how to determine the sub-region or region from reading a wine label, just type the first few letters of any name on the label into one of the fields until you find a match.

Choose a sub-region, and Region and Country automatically get filled. Choose a region, and Country automatically gets filled in. Choose a distinction, and Body automatically gets filled in.

To determine a wine's “drink after” and “drink by” dates, fill in Distinction and Sub-region/Region/Country, then click the "Get Maturity Dates" button on the Wine Tab entry form. Indicate the quality of your wine and PWC automatically fills in the dates for you. (You may fill in your own dates as well!) PWC will automatically calculate your wine’s maturity status from now on!

For multiple entries of different wines with similar information (e.g., Producer, Varietal, Vineayrd, etc.) be sure to use Duplicate Wine and change only the fields that are different (e.g., Vintage).

Wines are sorted in the Cellar List by Producer, then Wine Name, then Vintage by default. You can change the default sort order on the Home page.

You can also change the sort order temporarily when you are viewing your Cellar List: click any column heading. For example, if you want to sort by Country, click the word “Country” at the top of that column. Click again to reverse the order from ascending to descending.

When you are viewing your Cellar List you can always see detailed summaries of any wine by simply clicking directly on that wine. Just put your cursor over the name of the Producer and click! You will then be taken to the Wine Summary.

You can create custom lists in two ways:

Choose "Create a Report" from the Home page or select Reports in the gray Drop-Down Menu bar. A “report” is a summary of your entire collection organized by specific categories.

Click “Search” on the black Navigation Bar. Search for any wine, producer, region, etc. that appears specifically in your Cellar List. For example, search for all you Pinot Noirs. Then sort your list any way you like (e.g., by region). You can print the list by clicking “Print” on the Navigation Bar.

PWC offers over 7,500 food and wine pairing suggestions. Click on Pair Food in the Navigation Bar to generate a list of food choices. You can also Pair Wine with Food. Additionally, once you have entered a new wine, you can view a list of pairing suggestions in the Food Pairings Tab.

Use the Menu Maker to create and print menus for meals and tasting events. Click on "Menu" on the Navigation Bar or link from the Home page.

For the most effecient inventory, print bottle I.D. Labels each time you enter a new wine.

For a quick reference guide, generate and print a report of your collection, organized any way you like, or Print a List (sorted any way you like), and keep it near your cellar.

Rather than type... Import your wines into PWC! If you already have a list or inventory, and you can create a tab-delimited, CSV, or Excel file, you can use the Import function (located in the Drop-Down Menus or on the Home page) to bring all that info into this database! (This is an advanced function.)

You have the option of disabling certain warning messages after they appear. If you disable the warnings, you can always restore them later by selecting “Warnings” in the Drop-Down Menus and click "Restore all Warnings."