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Cellar
Batch
A defined quantity of wine that is treated and tracked as one unit.
A batch comes into being at the grape intake and lives on until it is absorbed into another one or bottled. It is the unit that treatments, analyses and stock hang on.
Its value is in the batch history: for every bottling it must be possible to trace backwards which precursors it came from — and for every precursor forwards, which bottlings it went into.
Three base wines in two blends, one of those blended again, bottled into two formats: six links, which no sheet of paper can show any more.
Related terms
Grape intake
The step by which picked grapes are taken into the cellar and recorded for the first time.
Cellar book
The record of every movement and every treatment in the cellar that wine law requires.
Append-only
A method in which entries are only ever added, never altered and never deleted.
Blending
Bringing several wines or musts together into a new one — with every consequence wine law…
Racking
Moving the clear wine off the lees into a clean vessel.
Bottling
The move from vessel to bottle — the point at which a batch becomes articles with stock.
Lot number
The marking by which one bottled lot can be identified beyond doubt.
Traceability
The duty to be able to show, for any product, one step back and one step forward.
These terms in daily use, not in a glossary.
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