I’d say that WineLog falls somewhere between CellarTracker and Cork’d in terms of the “seriousness” of our community and “fun” of our user interface. If you are interested in trying out our site, contact me by email and I can help you import some of your CellarTracker data into your Wine Log to get your rolling.

I think you make some great points about the drinking window of wines. One of our next cellar-focused feature releases will be an update to how “drink-by” dates are handled on our site.

I have seen drink-by dates on some wines I’ve purchased. One bottle from Stormhoek I just got has a “ultimate freshness” graphic on it that, although a little hard to read, shows when the optimal time to drink the wine is.

One reason I can think of as to why wineries might not want to put something like “this will be better in 2010″ is that they are for the most part interested in selling out as quickly as possible. Having that text on the label kind of implies that the wine is not perfect RIGHT NOW, which is the message I’m sure they’d rather promote. You and I know that consumers like good old fashioned honest data, so maybe more wineries will turn around and be proud of the shelf-life of their wine.

It would be interesting to get the perspective of some other wine industry folks. I’ll forward your inquiry along to some people on our team.