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Cellar
Append-only
A method in which entries are only ever added, never altered and never deleted.
A wrong entry is not overwritten but cancelled by a reversing entry and then entered again correctly. Three lines stand where one would have — and that is precisely the point.
The difference only shows at an audit: a corrected table always looks as though it had been right all along. A book kept append-only shows that a mistake happened and was put right, and when.
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Related terms
Cellar book
The record of every movement and every treatment in the cellar that wine law requires.
Reversing entry
A new entry that cancels an earlier one — instead of deleting it.
Batch
A defined quantity of wine that is treated and tracked as one unit.
Audit-proof record keeping
Records that cannot be altered, are complete, and can be followed.
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