Wine list
The wine list is the richest menu type in Fenómenus. A wine is not a dish: it has a vintage, a producer, a region, a grape, an ageing classification, four bottle formats and a technical sheet — and the wine list stores all of it.
What makes it different
| Compared with a dish menu | Wine list behavior |
|---|---|
| Categories | Seeded with a full wine structure when the type is enabled |
| Extra taxonomies | Vintage, ageing classification, winery, grape, region |
| Edit screen | A dedicated wine panel instead of the generic fields |
| Prices | Glass, bottle, Magnum, Benjamin |
| Category navigation | Flat by default, rather than nested |
| Bulk entry | Its own wine tools, instead of the generic paste table |
| Automatic category on publish | Not applied — a wine is never auto-filed |
The wine record
The Detalles del vino panel groups everything a wine carries:
- Precios de venta — glass, bottle, Magnum and Benjamin prices.
- Referencias del mercado — recommended supermarket price, and minimum, average and maximum recommended restaurant prices. These are guidance for your pricing, not values shown to guests.
- Ratings — the numeric Parker and Peñín scores, each stored on a 0–100 scale when a verified score exists.
- Ficha técnica — the technical sheet: characteristics such as body, acidity, sweetness, tannins, fruitiness, aromatic intensity, alcohol, finish, minerality and complexity, plus tasting notes for the visual, nose and palate, structure, finish, terroir, vinification and how to serve.
- Imagen — a single bottle image.
- Añada — the vintage, chosen from the vintage list.
- The ageing classification, and the wine type.
A separate Tipo de vino panel sets the wine's type from the wine category tree.
The category tree you start with
When the wine list is enabled, Fenómenus seeds a complete, ordered wine structure rather than leaving you with an empty taxonomy — still wines with whites, orange wines, rosés and reds; sparkling wines with their production methods; and the rest of the standard families, each with a short description.
Use it as a starting point. Rename what does not match the house, delete what you do not sell, and add regions or producers as sections if that is how your list is organized.
Vintages and ageing
- Vintage is a list of years, seeded from 1930 to 2030. A wine is assigned one, or left without one. The vintage can also be set directly from a row on All items.
- Ageing classification is a small, deliberately international list — young wine, medium ageing, long ageing — so that a list mixing Spanish, Italian and French conventions stays comparable.
Keeping the vintage out of the wine's title is the recommended convention, and the bulk tools label the title column Wine name (no vintage) for exactly that reason. Two vintages of the same wine are then two records with the same name and different vintages, rather than two differently spelled titles.
The four bottle formats
| Format | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Glass | Poured by the glass |
| Bottle | Standard 750 ml |
| Magnum | 1.5 l |
| Benjamin | 187.5 ml quarter bottle |
Fill only what the cellar actually pours. A wine available only by the bottle needs the bottle price and nothing else.
AI assistance
Three optional tools exist for wine lists, each switched on separately under Enabled tools:
- Add new from search — search a wine by name and create or update its record.
- Fill in your wine details with AI — complete missing details across wines you already have.
- Bulk add wines from Excel or photo — paste rows, or photograph a wine list and turn it into editable rows.
All three leave the result on screen for review before saving. See Wine lists.
Layout
The wine list supports the five item layouts, and its category navigation is flat by default because a wine list is usually browsed by family rather than drilled into. Generated wine feed templates show each available Parker or Peñín score beside the wine name and omit a rating when its field is empty.
Price list is the conventional and usually correct choice: a wine list is read as a list. Photo-led layouts work for short curated selections, not for a cellar of four hundred references.
Excel
The wine list has no generic paste table, but it does have the Excel export, with columns for the wine name, the four prices, Parker score, Peñín score and the category. Export first, edit in the spreadsheet, and bring supported rows back through the wine bulk tool.