Hi,

First I have a terrible memory, and think computers should do
everything for me, so I started typing all my notes into an excel
spreadsheet this summer, and seeing as I don't have classes in the
winter I am planning on expanding it. I was wondering what experiences
people have had with this. I know there is software for wine
databasing, but is there anything they provide that I cannot do myself
in Access?

currently the fields i have a
name, vintage, varietals, country, region, price, notes, did I like it
y/n

First I was probably going to switch from excel to access. I also want
to expand the varietals field, because as-is it doesn't lend well to
filtering by varietal. I am thinking I will make it "varietal 1, %,
varietal 2, %, 3, %, other varietals, %. That way I can search for all
100% pinot noirs, or all >90% cabs, etc. Does anyone use a different
method that may work better?

are there any more fields that would be useful, I don't really have the
income for cellaring wines yet.

Finally, this idea is a bit utopian but has anyone considered using
google's feature where you can have a database stored online that group
members can edit for an afw TN database? the FAQ seemed to be a good
community project. I suppose it would be similar in structure to other
databases but w/ multiple different notes fields and one for who
authored each note.

as always thanks for the replies
-tomw