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How to Read a Wine Label
(and map it in TastingMaster)
 
Table of Contents
New World & Old World Wine Labels .......................................................................... 1
 
Elements of a Wine Label ............................................................................................. 1
 
Vintage* ................................................................................................................................. 2 
Producer (Wine Maker/Winery/“Brand”)* .............................................................................. 2 
Country* ................................................................................................................................ 2 
Grape Variety or Style* ......................................................................................................... 3 
Style
4 
Region/Sub-Region/Appellation* ........................................................................................... 4 
Proprietary Name .................................................................................................................. 5 
Designation ........................................................................................................................... 6 
Type ...................................................................................................................................... 9 
Vineyard ................................................................................................................................ 9 
Cost ..................................................................................................................................... 11 
Source/Vendor .................................................................................................................... 11 
Bottling / Winery Information ............................................................................................... 11 
% Alcohol ............................................................................................................................ 12 
Bottle Notes ......................................................................................................................... 12 
Other ................................................................................................................................... 12 
TastingMaster Entry Screens
 
Basic Information (Required Fields) .................................................................................... 13 
Additional Information (Optional Fields) .............................................................................. 13 
Wine Label Examples Mapped into TastingMaster
 
USA Wine Label .................................................................................................................. 14 
French Wine Label .............................................................................................................. 15 
How to Read a Wine Label
 
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Italian Wine Label ................................................................................................................ 16 
Spanish Wine Label ............................................................................................................ 17 
German Wine Label ............................................................................................................ 18 
Australian Wine Label ......................................................................................................... 19 
South African Wine Label .................................................................................................... 20 
South American (Chile) Label ............................................................................................. 21 
South American (Argentina) Wine Label ............................................................................. 22 
How to Read a Wine Label
 
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New World & Old World Wine Labels
In your wine tasting events, you’ll find that wine labels vary widely in what is
displayed and what the words mean.
As you enter wines into TastingMaster Wine Tasting Edition, you’ll learn to
“translate” what you find on various labels to fields you can record and track in the
software. We have tried to make the software flexible enough to allow you to use
various fields in ways you want. The charts below will help you be consistent and
therefore give you the ability to keep records and compare wines on features you
find interesting or important.
For our purposes,
New World
wines are those wines produced
outside
the
traditional wine-growing areas of Europe and North Africa, in particular
from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA.
Old World
wine labels are often more challenging to read than New World labels.
With some European wines the region or place name is key, e.g., Chablis, Chianti,
Rioja, and not the grape variety (some countries forbid the mention of the grape
variety!). In other countries, Germany, for example, the grape variety appears
prominently, along with other descriptors of a wine’s level of sweetness (when the
grapes were picked).
New World
wine labels are slightly more consistent. The emphasis is on the brand
or producer and the grape variety or blend.
The
front label
most often indicates the vintage, except in the case of European
table wines (e.g., vin de table, tafelwein).
Somewhere on the label you’ll find: country of origin, name and address of the
producer/importer, volume of liquid in the bottle and alcoholic strength (ABV).
The
back label
may tell you more about the region, the grape variety or blend and
the winemaker's tasting notes. Some winemakers tell interesting stories about the
vineyard or the vintage or the weather...they are creative and often quite
interesting!
Elements of a Wine Label
There are several common elements displayed on wine labels, both from the Old
World and the New World. This section is intended to define the common elements
and offer a few examples of each. This will assist you when you enter wines into
TastingMaster Wine Tasting Edition.
How to Read a Wine Label
 
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NOTE:
The first five (5) elements described below are mandatory fields when you
add a wine in TastingMaster. They show an asterisk (*), indicating they are
mandatory fields.
The rest of the fields are not mandatory, but can certainly help
you distinguish wines and are quite often determining factors when people consider
buying wine (e.g., “estate bottled” or % alcohol).
Vintage*
Vintage refers to the year in which the grapes were harvested (not the year in
which it was bottled). Most national wine laws require that at least 85% of the
wine be harvested in the year of the vintage (up to 15% may be blended in from
other years).
Sometimes you will not see a vintage printed on the label. In some regions,
vintage is not printed (by law) because of varying harvest conditions; it would not
be prudent to judge an entire vintage by the quality (or lack of it) of wines from
one part of the region (e.g., Burgundy). In the case of champagne, a blend of
grape varieties and vintages is used to strike the desired balance.
If a blend of grapes from 2 years or more is used, the wine is called non-vintage or
NV.
Producer (Wine Maker/Winery/“Brand”)*
This is the person, company, or firm that made the wine, sometimes called “Brand
name”. Quite often, you’ll see the name combined with another word such as
winery, estate, vineyard, cellars, château, or domaine.
Country/Area
New World
France
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Examples
Rosenblum, Robert Mondavi, Penfolds, Galah
Château St. Pierrre, Paul Jaboulet
Gunderloch, Robert Weil, Von Buhl
Marinez Bujanda, Marqués de Cáceres, Lan
Fâmega, Quinta da Vegia, Quinta Vista
Bera, Banfi, Antinori, Danzante
Country*
All wines specify a country of origin.
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