Every bottle is allocated a Vinoté tag displaying a pre-printed
unique number and barcode. The tag makes it easy to find a wine and then
is held as evidence of opening. This allows you to soberly and
accurately maintain your cellar list.
Identify your wine locations
Name your columns of racking or bins as 'locations', with each
location holding no more than 100 bottles.
Cellar racking is often made up in columnar units of 8 or 10 bottles
wide. Each of these columns may be identified as a single location. In
wine cabinets each rack level may be identified as a location.
Providing an exact location for every bottle can cause chaos; when a
wine is moved from one cell to another inadvertently, your computer will
lose it for ever.
Place your wines randomly
Let the software collate your wines.
Trying to store your wines in tag numeric order, will waste valuable
storage space.
Reduce the search area
You can halve the search area within a column location by placing whites
at the bottom (cooler part) and reds at the top.
Finding your selected wine
A. Let your software help you choose the wines to open.
B. Note the tag numbers of the wines which have been selected.
C. Go to the location, look in the appropriate area (red or white) and
find each matching 3 digit number.
Maintaining an accurate inventory
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Ensure that every wine
entering your cellar is tagged and catalogued. Even casual drinking
wines will be treated better, if they are tagged and properly
selected for each occasion.
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Avoid removing the tag
from any bottle until you open it, allowing identified wines to be
returned to the cellar.
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Accumulate your used
tags. Enter the tag number or scan the barcode to remove the wine
from your cellar list.
Abide by these three rules
and your cellar inventory will remain accurate for ever. You will trust
your cellar list, derive more pleasure from your wine selection and make
every good wine taste great.
Read more about how the Vinoté system works.
Read the White Paper on uniquely numbered tags.
Got a question? Email
James 
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