Vynr began as a map. Scan a label, and the wine finds its place: country, region, appellation. The treemap fills — area as presence, geography as structure. A private atlas of what you have collected.
But a cellar is not a library. Bottles change. They evolve, peak, fade. The map tells you where. It says nothing about when.
The time lens
The new time lens adds a temporal axis. Scrub forward in time and the cellar rearranges itself — not by what you own, but by what is ready.
Each wine carries a drinkability curve: a projection of how it evolves from youth through peak into decline. The curves are shaped by appellation character — Barolo declines slowly with a long asymmetric tail; non-vintage Champagne peaks tightly and drops away; white Burgundy, when well-stored, holds a broad plateau. These are not predictions about your specific bottle. They are honest expressions of how a category tends to behave, with built-in humility about how much the model actually knows.
Honest shape
The model draws on oenological research — vintage quality regression studies, structural longevity work on tannin and acidity as antioxidant mechanisms, and the well-documented varietal priors that wine professionals carry intuitively. But it resists the temptation to over-specify.
Confidence is structural, not cosmetic. When the system knows less about a wine — an obscure appellation, a grape with limited aging data — the curve itself communicates that uncertainty. The peak flattens. The plateau widens. The slopes soften. The shape says "roughly here" without pretending to know more.
A Gevrey-Chambertin gets a narrow peak followed by a long, gradual decline — structured, with real staying power. A Meursault gets a broad, gentle window. A wine with no appellation match at all gets a wide, low, uncertain curve that communicates caution rather than confidence. The goal is curves that feel expressive, not computed.
Where meets when
The atlas and the time lens are two views of the same cellar. Geography organises what you have. Time organises when to open it. Drill into an appellation at a future date and you see which bottles are approaching, which are at peak, which are fading. The readiness ribbon — a stacked distribution of maturity states — replaces the single dramatic spike that early models produced, breaking correlated decline timing into varied, region-specific humps.
Wine people forgive wrong timing. They do not forgive unjustified certainty. A curve that says "roughly here, but we're not sure" earns trust. A curve that says "precisely here" and is wrong destroys it.
Soft cellar light —
you know before you reach
when it is time
Your wines. In place. In time.