Grape and vintage

Two of the things a guest most often wants to know about a wine are the year and the grape. Fenómenus stores both as structured values rather than as text inside the description, so they stay consistent and comparable across the list.

Vintage

The vintage is chosen from a list of years, seeded from 1930 to 2030 when the wine list is enabled. A wine either has one or does not — a non-vintage sparkling wine simply leaves it empty.

Set it in either of two places:

• on the wine record, in the Añada selector;
• on the wine's row in All items, which is the fastest way to correct a batch after a delivery.

Keep the vintage out of the title

This is the single most useful convention on a wine list, and the tools reinforce it: the bulk table and the export both label the title column Wine name (no vintage).

With the convention:

• two vintages of the same wine are two records with the same name and different vintages;
• a new vintage arriving is a field change, not a rename;
• bulk updates match reliably, because matching is by exact title;
• the list reads consistently, instead of mixing Wine 2019 and Wine, 2020.

Without it, every future import creates duplicates.

When the vintage changes

A delivery of the new vintage is a routine edit:

1. Open All items for the wine list.
2. Find the wine — the search box matches titles.
3. Change the vintage on the row.
4. Update the price if it changed.
5. Review the technical sheet if the new vintage is materially different.

If the two vintages are sold side by side, create a second record with the same name and the other vintage, so both can be priced and described independently.

Grape

Grape varieties are stored as their own list. A wine can carry several — a blend is normal — and because they are structured values, the same variety is spelled the same way on every wine that uses it.

Grapes are filled in one of three ways:

• by hand on the wine record;
• by the wine search, which fills empty fields when it finds the wine;
• by the bulk fill tool, across many wines at once.

When a tool supplies several varieties for one wine, they arrive as separate entries rather than as one comma-joined string.

Keeping the grape list clean

Because varieties accumulate, agree a spelling convention before the list grows:

• one language for variety names — Tempranillo and Garnacha, or Grenache and Syrah, but not a mixture;
• no synonyms in parallel: choose Garnacha or Grenache and hold to it;
• no vintages, regions or percentages inside a variety name.

A messy variety list is not visible on the menu until a guest tries to compare two wines and finds the same grape written three ways.

What guests see

Whether the grape and the vintage appear on the public menu and in the printed PDF is a presentation decision. The PDF generator has explicit switches per menu type — Display region, Display winery, Display grape — so a compact printed list can omit them while the digital menu keeps them.

Checking

1. Every vintage-dated wine has a vintage set.
2. No vintage appears inside a title.
3. Grape spellings are consistent across the list.
4. Blends carry each variety separately, not as one text value.
5. Two vintages of the same wine are two records, both correctly priced.