How to switch wine cellar apps: moving to Selara Sommelier is easier than you think

The hardest part of switching wine cellar apps is usually the thought of it. You've spent years entering bottles, noting where they live and recording what you drank. Starting over feels unthinkable.

You don't start over. Most cellar apps let you export your data, and Selara Sommelier is built to read what they produce. Below, we cover the export route for the most common apps, what happens to your data when it arrives, and how to handle the bottles you've already enjoyed.

Why switching wine cellar apps is easier now

Selara Sommelier's importer was designed for real collector files, not tidy templates. It accepts .csv, .tsv, .tab, .txt, .xlsx, .xls, .json, .numbers, or .xml. It matches your columns to its own fields and flags anything you should confirm. You see a preview before anything is added, and if you upload the wrong file you can remove that import, along with the bottles it added.

Each file can hold up to 10,000 rows and 25 MB, the same on every plan. For most collections, that means one export and one upload.

Exporting from CellarTracker

CellarTracker documents its export options on its own support site, in a help article called "Exporting Data". The route Selara Sommelier recommends is:

1. Sign in at cellartracker.com.
2. Open My Cellar.
3. Click Export in the top right.
4. Choose CSV or tab-delimited text. CellarTracker's help page also describes XML exports for more advanced users, and Selara Sommelier accepts all three.
5. Download the file, or use the copy CellarTracker emails you.
6. In Selara Sommelier, go to import and drop in the file.

Your structure comes across intact. Location and bin stay as location and bin, and your notes stay notes. If CellarTracker holds a drinking window for a wine in its BeginConsume and EndConsume fields, Selara Sommelier saves it on the bottle notes in a readable form, such as "Drink 2024-2040".

For wines you've already logged as consumed, export that view the same way, then use Import history on the History page. Full steps are on our CellarTracker export guide.

Coming from Vivino

Vivino lets you add wines to a Cellar list so you know what you have. To bring that list across, Selara Sommelier's guide suggests two routes:

1. In the Vivino app or on vivino.com, open your cellar or wines list.
2. If your account offers a "Download my data" option, which is often under privacy settings, request that archive and look for a cellar or wines table.
3. Otherwise, copy producer, wine, vintage and quantity into a spreadsheet using those column names.
4. Save it as .csv or .xlsx.
5. Import the sheet into Selara Sommelier.

Ratings and tasting notes for wines you've already enjoyed belong in History, so bring those in with Import history rather than the cellar import. See the Vivino guide.

Exporting from VinoCell

1. Open VinoCell on the web or in the app.
2. Go to your cellar settings or tools.
3. Choose Export and pick CSV or Excel.
4. Import that file into Selara Sommelier.

Details are on the VinoCell guide.

Exporting from Wine-Searcher

1. Sign in to Wine-Searcher.
2. Open your cellar or collection list.
3. Look for Export or Download, often as CSV or Excel.
4. Save the file.
5. Import it into Selara Sommelier.

See the Wine-Searcher guide.

Coming from Delectable

Selara Sommelier's guide recommends building a simple spreadsheet from your Delectable lists:

1. Open your tasted or cellar list in Delectable.
2. Copy producer, wine, vintage and any notes into a spreadsheet.
3. Save as .csv or .xlsx.
4. Import cellar rows into Selara Sommelier, or use Import history for wines you've already enjoyed.

More on the Delectable guide.

Exporting from the classic Cellar! desktop app

1. Open Cellar! on your computer.
2. Use File, then Export, and pick the Access database or spreadsheet option, if you have it.
3. If you exported a database, open it and save the wine table as CSV or Excel.
4. Import that sheet into Selara Sommelier.

See the Cellar! guide.

Using InVintory or another app?

The same approach works for any app that can produce a spreadsheet file. InVintory's own guide to its web app, for example, notes that you can export your collection as a CSV from app.invintory.com. Export, then upload the file to Selara Sommelier.

If your app has no export at all, a short spreadsheet with producer, wine, vintage, bottle size, quantity and location is enough to get going. You can always add detail later. For tips on tidying that sheet, see our wine inventory spreadsheet cleanup checklist.

The full list of guides lives at How do I import from…?

What to expect on import day

Once your export is ready, the import goes step by step. If the file has several tabs, you choose the ones you want. Selara Sommelier shows how it mapped your columns and asks you to check anything uncertain.

Next comes storage. Match the location names in your file to locations in Selara Sommelier, create new ones, or choose a default location for the import. Then review the rows in a spreadsheet-style preview before committing. If you step away partway through, your upload is saved so you can pick up where you left off.

Bottles that never made it into your old app can come in another way. Photograph the label and Selara Sommelier reads it for you, even in dim light or with a faded handwritten label. For a recent delivery, upload the merchant's PDF invoice or a photo of it.

What you gain after the switch

Once your cellar is in, it's yours to arrange. You choose which columns show and in what order. You can view the collection by Color, then Country, then Region, the way a restaurant list reads, or by the collector categories auction houses use. When it's time to open something, you stage bottles for an occasion, record what you opened with a single click, and put the rest back. And you can ask Selara Sommelier's AI assistant plain-language questions about your cellar. It asks before making any change.

For more on the day-to-day experience, read why Selara Sommelier is the most user-friendly way to manage a wine cellar. If you're weighing your options more broadly, our guide to choosing a wine cellar app may help.

Bring your cellar with you

Your collection history is worth keeping. Selara Sommelier runs on iPhone and the web, and Premier Cru is free for up to 100 bottles in one location. Start with the export guide for your app, then bring your cellar home to Selara Sommelier.