Magnum and Benjamin
The wine list carries two bottle formats beyond the standard bottle: Precio botella magnum and Precio botella benjamín. They exist because a serious wine list sells the same wine in more than one size, and a guest choosing between them needs both prices in front of them.
The formats
| Field | Volume | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Precio botella | 750 ml | The standard bottle |
| Precio botella magnum | 1.5 l | Large tables, celebrations, cellar wines |
| Precio botella benjamín | 187.5 ml | A quarter bottle — usually Champagne or sparkling, for one guest |
Both are optional. Most wines on most lists use the standard bottle price alone.
When to fill them
Magnum — fill it when the cellar actually holds magnums of that wine. It is a strong sales signal on a wine list and a disappointment when the bottle is not there.
Benjamin — fill it for the sparkling wines you can serve to a single guest, and for a by-the-glass alternative that keeps the wine fresh. It is the format that makes "a glass of Champagne" possible without opening a full bottle.
Same wine, one record
A wine sold in several formats is one record with several prices, not several records. That keeps the description, the vintage, the region, the grape and the technical sheet in one place, and it is how guests read a wine list: one wine, its available sizes.
Create separate records only when the wines are genuinely different — a different vintage, a different cuvée.
Vintages, not sizes, split a record
If the magnum is a different vintage from the 750 ml bottle, that is two wines. Keep the vintage out of the title — the tools label the title column Wine name (no vintage) — and let the vintage field distinguish them.
Ordering large formats on the list
A wine with a magnum price is worth positioning deliberately. Two conventions both work:
- keep it in its normal family section, with the magnum price shown alongside the bottle price;
- collect the large formats into their own category — Large formats, Magnums — when there are enough of them to be a selling point.
Category structure is a decision on All categories; the price fields do not change either way.
Editing
Both formats are editable inline on All items for the wine list, and both are export and import columns. A cellar update that adds magnum pricing to twenty wines is a spreadsheet job, not twenty screens.
Checking
- Every magnum and Benjamin price corresponds to stock that exists.
- The relationship between formats reads sensibly — a magnum priced below two bottles needs a reason.
- The wine's vintage is correct for the format offered.
- The public wine list shows both prices clearly on a phone; four price columns is the densest row on any Fenómenus menu.
- The PDF is regenerated after a cellar update, if one is in circulation.