OENO is working again. Here's another wine app for your Vintec

From mid-May 2026, most of its Australian App Store reviews said the same thing: it spun on the loading screen, wouldn't log in or wouldn't open at all, and several owners waited months for a fix. When I tried it in September, it wouldn't get past setup.

It came back around the start of October. One owner updated their review on 1 October to say it finally works again, and on 12 October I signed up on an iPhone, scanned a bottle and set up a cabinet. Some screens took several seconds to load, a label sat over the buttons along the bottom, and it closed on me once. Its last App Store update is still December 2024.

Scanning a label brings back Vivino's page for the wine: its rating, an average price and a Buy from Vivino button, with Add to my collection under them. To store the bottle, you first build the cabinet, from a Vintec model number or module by module and shelf by shelf.

Its “best enjoyed” dates are, in its own words, “calculated based on the ageing potential of the wine's regional style”. For a 2013 Penfolds St Henri, that came out as 2013 to 2019. The tips beside it were for red wine as a whole: serve at 15 to 16 degrees, decant for up to an hour, and two years or more of ageing.

When a winery or a wine critic says when a wine will be at its best, they're assuming it's kept somewhere cool, at about 13 degrees, the way a cellar is. Your Vintec keeps it at that temperature, so Barello uses those dates as they are.

Most cellars spill over. A bottle on a rack in the lounge or in a cupboard is warmer, and warmth ages wine faster, so Barello looks up ten years of daily temperatures where you live and brings that bottle's dates forward to match. How that's worked out.

Barello works out each wine's dates from its grape and style, and for the grapes whose best bottles age longer, a bottle bought at the top end gets longer dates. When it can't work a wine out, it says so rather than making a date up.

If your cellar came back with the app, keep your own copy of the list, whatever you decide. If it didn't, ask Vintec for one. It's your record of what's in the cabinet, whichever app you use next.

There's no OENO import, so the bottles go in by hand. Adding one is a single photo: it reads the label, you check what it found, and it's in. Start with the bottles in the fridge and the rest can follow.

Whatever you put into Barello, you can take out. In Settings, Download everything gives you your cellar, tasting history and ratings as spreadsheets you can open anywhere or take to another app.

It's free, there's no limit, and you don't have to ask anyone for it.

The spirits and cocktails sit on the same shelf as the wine, so tonight's answer can be a bottle that's ready or a cocktail you can make. More on keeping both in one place.

The whole house shares one cellar, so whoever opens the bottle, everyone knows it's gone.

And it sells nothing. Barello started because I'd spent a decade scanning wine into Vivino and what came back was offers to buy more, not advice on what to open. It's built in Melbourne and priced in Australian dollars. It's free to use. Here's what joining early gets you.

The cabinet. You build a copy of your wine fridge so the app knows which shelf each bottle is on, and its tips cover serving temperature, decanting and glassware as well as when to open.

No shelf-by-shelf drawing of the cabinet: Barello asks which room the wine's in and your town's climate, not which shelf. No shop, so there's no buying wine in the app. And no OENO import.