What Vivino costs, and what Barello gives away

Vivino's Cellar upgrades screen puts it plainly. Premium buys "access via your desktop and enhanced stats like collection value and drinking windows."

So the year a bottle is worth opening sits behind the subscription. For most people that's the question they opened a cellar app to answer.

Barello puts it on the front of every bottle for nothing. The dates come from the grape and the style, so a Chianti Classico isn't read as a generic Sangiovese.

And when it can't place a wine, it says so and shows no window, rather than making a date up.

This is the part we haven't seen anywhere else.

A shelf in a Melbourne lounge room runs a wine's clock faster than a wine fridge does. So the dates move. A bottle you'd have held another two years turns up in tonight's list while it's still good.

Same rules, run against your house instead of a reference cellar. You tell it where you live and where the wine goes, once, when you set up.

Barello doesn't total up what your cellar is worth. That's a choice about what the price is for: Tuesday wine or birthday wine. Bottles fall into bands you set yourself, and nothing adds them together.

If knowing what a cellar is worth is why you track it, Vivino Premium does that and this doesn't.

Vivino also has a review community and a shop. Barello has neither and isn't trying to. It's a cellar and a bar for one household, not a place to find or buy wine.

Wine, spirits and cocktails sit in one household inventory. The gin is in the same place as the Barossa Shiraz, so the app can tell you that tonight you could open the Shiraz or make a Negroni.

It's in open beta. Join now and the app as it stands today stays free for you, for life; paid extras come later.