Obligations & declarations

Stock declaration

The annual declaration to the competent authority of the wine held on 31 July.

What gets declared is what is on the estate on the reference date — broken down by product, vintage and quality level.

It is the return that exposes keeping data twice: run the cellar book in one system and add the declaration up in another, and you have to hope the two say the same thing.

Out of a cellar book kept without gaps it arises instead by calculation, not by collection.

Related terms

Cellar book The record of every movement and every treatment in the cellar that wine law requires. Harvest declaration The declaration of the quantities harvested, by area, variety and quality level. Production declaration The declaration of what was actually produced in the cellar out of the harvest. Wine fund levy The levy that funds the promotion of German wine, charged on area and quantity. Perpetual inventory Adjusting stock continuously with every receipt and issue, instead of counting once at the… Consignment stock Wine standing at a merchant or a restaurant that belongs to the estate until it is sold.

These terms in daily use, not in a glossary. The tour shows where each of them turns up in VINORUM — in sixteen units at your own pace.

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