Questtion for Cellar! Software Users

I've used Cellar! for years and have posted frequently on the software as my preferred choice (this after being a software reviewer for Ziff- Davis Online Software Library for seven years). I particularly like the tight online integration of the latest iterations. Enter a wine which comes from a winery not in your database and the program asks if you want to go online to find it--usually a brief list of possible choice show up and you find your winery data. Need TNs on a wine, Cellar! will fetch it online and usually offer you a vertical so you can even compare vintages of a particular wine. Pretty neat stuff.

I will confess, however, that I don't spend a lot of time with the profiles management. I've configured for a handful of premium bottles in my cellar, but in most instances I go with the default--it seems that between my anticipated longevity and my consumption rate for my cellar, the profiles would be so much wishful thinking.

Now, as for your dillemma that many wines mentioned aren't available where you live, let me suggest some online shopping. If you live in the US (and enjoy one of the states that doesn't consider you serial liquidateer for enjoying wine), there are a lot of great and reliable sources for wine that isn't availalbe locally. Some to explore are a lot of others. All have Web sites and all have extensive catalogs. I found most of my wine bookmarks using winesearcher.com.

Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" www.thunderchief.org