How to view past bottles

Every bottle you take out of your collection moves to Past bottles — a searchable, filterable archive of what you have drunk, gifted, sold or otherwise removed. On iPhone and iPad it is the Past tab of your Collection.

Note

Removing a bottle never erases its history. The purchase price and date, storage, tags, removal note and any reviews you wrote all stay on the record — and you can put the bottle back in your collection at any time with Undo removal.

All seven removal reasons land here — Consumed, Gifted, Sold, Broken, Expired, Donated and Missing — along with any custom reasons your collection has set up.

Caution

Delete is not one of those reasons. It is a separate action sitting beside Remove, and it makes you type DELETE and the bottle count first. Deleted bottles never reach Past bottles and Undo removal cannot bring them back. Deleting from this screen clears a bottle out of the archive for good, so remove instead whenever you want to keep the record.

What removing a bottle actually changes

Collection value and bottle count	Stop counting it
Analytics and Year in Review	Read Consumed only — that is the reason that marks a bottle as drunk. The other reasons simply label it
Activity feed	Keeps the removal as a dated event
Your reviews and tasting notes	Untouched — they belong to the wine, not the bottle

On iPhone & iPad

1. Open the Collection tab. On iPad, tap Collection in the left sidebar.
2. Tap Past, at the top of the list. The number beside it is how many bottles you have removed.
3. Tap a wine to drill into its individual bottles, with the reason, date and note for each one.

iPhone & iPad:  Collection → Past → tap a wine

View all in the Past Bottles section on Home opens the same tab. That section only appears once you have removed at least one bottle. If it is missing after that, switch it back on in Customize home.

On Android

1. On Home, scroll to the Past Bottles section and tap View all.
2. Tap a wine to see its individual bottles.

On the web

1. Sign in at app.invintory.com and click Past bottles in the left sidebar.
2. Click Change columns to choose what each row shows.

What you can do from here

• Search and filter. The Removal, Ratings and Tags chips sit under the search bar; the full filter sheet adds removal date and everything you can filter by on your Collection page. Display settings control which details show on each row. On iPhone and iPad, your search text carries over when you switch between the Current and Past tabs, but each keeps its own filters.
• Put bottles back. Select the bottles, then choose Undo removal. On iPhone and iPad, VinLocate opens afterwards so you can place them back into slots.
• Export. Download a CSV grouped by label or grouped by bottle.
• Review. Open any past bottle to read the review you left or write one now.

Watch demo

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Next steps

• How to remove bottles
• Using the Activity Feed
• Understanding your collection analytics