Wine has an integrated quick start guide available. To access the quick start guide, click on the "Help" menu in Wine.
How do I fill in information such as wine ratings and peak year details?
The information available for each bottle varies, and typically includes the name, varietal, winery, country, type, color, and region. Fields such as peak year and ratings are not automatically populated; they are provided for the user to enter information on the wine.
By entering the vintage and peak year, Wine provides a color-coded maturity indicator with a date range based on the differential between the vintage, peak, and current year.
We do provide a way to lookup this type of information easily through Wine. Once you add a bottle, you can select the record then select one of the sites from the "Web" menu, and Wine will search for that wine on the selected site for further details. Additional information can be copied and pasted into Wine.
How do I use the Vintage Card?
When you are adding wines to your database, the Vintage Card makes it easy to automatically set the vintages for the bottles you are scanning. Simply scan the barcode from your bottle followed by the vintage from the Vintage Card. The Vintage Card can be scanned either before or after the On-The-Go Card when adding your wines.
The Vintage Card can be printed directly from Wine. To print the card, click on the "Help" menu option and select "Print Vintage Card".
How do I scan a wine out as Consumed/Tasted?
The "Tasted Wine" report is designed to track wines that you have open and tasted or consumed.
When you are ready to consume a wine from your inventory, click the Consume button in Wine, then connect the scanner to transfer barcode numbers or scan the bottle you are consuming with the scanner attached.
When the wine is scanned out as consumed, the quantity for the wine is reduced by 1 (or by the number of times you scanned the bottles). The Consumed window has a number of options available. To have the wine automatically marked as Tasted, check the "Automatically Set Tasted" option. This will add the wine to the "Tasted Wine" report.
Bottles can also be manually marked as Tasted by selecting the wine in your database then clicking on the "Notes" button and checking the box for "Tasted".
When the quantity for a wine reaches zero, the bottle is automatically added to the "Out of Stock Wine" report and is removed from My Wines. My Wines shows records where you have one or more bottles, whereas All Wines shows all records you've ever entered into your database, including wines that currently have a quantity of zero.
How Do I utilize Reports?
Reports make it easy to dynamically filter out the data in Wine. Let's say, for instance, that you wanted to see all of the Italian wines in your database. Click on the "Reports" menu option and select "New Report".
In the New Report window, click on the first field and select "Country" -- in the second field, select "is" and in the third field, type in Italy (case sensitive). Click the "Save As Report" button and name the list. Now, you have a Report that will automatically filter out a listing of all your Italian wines -- anytime you add or delete an Italian wine, the Report will automatically be updated.