Origin and classification
Beyond the grape and the vintage, a wine carries three structured attributes: where it comes from, who made it, and how it was aged. Each is stored as its own list so wines remain comparable.
Region
Regions are stored hierarchically, so a wine can be filed under a country, a region and a subregion at once — for example Spain → Rioja → Rioja Alavesa. When a tool supplies a nested origin, each level is created and linked in order rather than stored as one string.
That structure is what lets a list group by origin without every entry being a slightly different piece of text.
Practical conventions:
- decide the depth you will maintain — country and region is usually enough;
- use one language for place names;
- use official denomination names where they exist.
Winery
The producer is stored as its own list, so all the wines from one house point at the same entry. A wine can name more than one where that is genuinely the case.
Keep the name as the producer writes it, without the legal suffix, and without the region appended. Bodegas X stays Bodegas X on every wine you carry from them.
Wine type
The wine's type comes from the wine category tree — the same structure that organizes the list — and is set in the Tipo de vino panel on the wine record.
That is deliberate: the type a guest browses by and the type stored on the wine are the same thing, so a wine cannot be classified as a red and filed under whites.
Ageing classification
A deliberately international three-step scale:
| Level | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Young wine | Minimal ageing, bottled within one to two years |
| Medium ageing | Moderate oak or bottle ageing, roughly two to four years |
| Long ageing | Extended ageing, four years or more |
The three levels exist so that a list mixing Spanish, Italian, French and New World conventions stays comparable. The seeded descriptions name the national equivalents — Joven, Crianza, Gran Reserva, Riserva and so on — so staff can map a label to a level.
If your list is entirely Spanish and guests expect the Spanish terms, rename the three levels to those terms. Renaming keeps every existing assignment.
Filling these in
Three routes, and they combine:
- By hand on the wine record, which is right for a short curated list.
- The wine search, which fills empty fields when it identifies the wine and leaves curated values alone.
- The bulk fill tool, for completing many wines at once.
Whatever the route, the values land in the same structured lists, so a mixed approach does not produce a mixed data set.
What guests see
The PDF generator has independent switches for Display region, Display winery and Display grape, per menu type. Use them to keep a printed list compact while the digital menu carries the full detail.
Checking
- Region names are consistent in language and depth.
- Producers appear once, not as three near-identical entries.
- Every wine's type matches the category it is filed under.
- Ageing levels are used consistently across the list.
- Nothing arrived as a comma-joined string where separate values were intended.