Collection of wines

[Marcelin Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz]

Hi,

After this messages, I've updated my template for wine collections. If 
you find this useful, you can update the template for this collection.

Roughly speaking, I :
* added some new fields to better identify a wine;
* modified the definition of the "Title" field to be "name + appelation 
+ vintage". The producer has very or no importance on how the wine is known
* Added new options to the "Type" field;
* added option "allow multiple values" to the "Varietal" field as most 
wines are produced from more than one grape type

You'll find it with some wine samples :
   https://photo.jose-marcio.org/users/tellico/MyWines.tc

If you find it useful, I can translate it to French and Portuguese.

About data sources, I haven't found any simple source of data. In fact, 
there are some smartphones apps to do this (vivino, viniou...) which can 
scan the bottle label and identify it, which works with most known 
wines. I don't think they have an API available to be used by any other 
kind of software.

Best regards and, again, thank you for this very useful software.

José-Marcio

On 11/9/25 20:20, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM Marcelin Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
> <jose.marcio.mc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Many fields to complete. E.g. Wine type isn't limited to red, white and
>> sparkling : rosé, fortified, liquor, marc, ...
>>
>> Many fields to add : Region, Sub region, type (normal, bio-dynamic,
>> vegan, kosher, religious, ...), ...
>>
>> And a full category : tasting report with a lot of fields here.
>>
>> I'm just beginning, but if there is some interest here, I can post a
>> sample collection with a few wines as an example.
> 
> Thanks for your interest in Tellico. From your email, I'm not sure if
> you're suggesting that the default template should be updated or you
> may not be aware than you can fully customize the collection fields,
> adding, removing, or modifying the available values. I believe that
> functionality should allow for creating a collection such as you
> suggest. For the default fields, they're intended to be a starter set
> only.
> 
>> Also looking for wine data sources. The only public and free database
>> I've found is LWIN (https://www.liv-ex.com/wwd/lwin/).
> 
> Thanks for that pointer. I can investigate what LWIN may have to offer.
> 
>> It's probably possible to be able to query barcode databases, but I
>> haven't found any open and free.
> 
> The UPCItemDb may be an option but right now Tellico doesn't support
> UPC lookup for wine collections. I can also look into that.
> 
>> I see an import function with VinoXML, but didn't understand what this
>> can really do and from where this data come.
> 
> It's a defunct XML definition, you can see what used to be at
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180307141818/http://vinoxml.org/
> I'll probably remove that importer from Tellico in the near future.
> 
> Thanks for your email,
> Robby