What the profile may add
A bottle profile may add grape varieties, appellation, photographs, pairings, awards, scores, a market estimate and a suggested drinking window.
Use it as a helpful reference. Your own record of the bottle remains the important part.
Confirm the exact wine first
Similar producer names, second wines, cuvées and vintage changes can produce details that look convincing but belong to another wine.
- Compare the producer and cuvée exactly.
- Check the vintage before accepting scores or drinking windows.
- Be careful with non-vintage wines, special bottlings, and merchant-exclusive labels.
- Keep your own purchase and tasting details even when profile data is available.
Keep the profile beside your own notes
A profile makes most sense beside your own quantity, location, price and tasting history. General drinking advice is far more useful when you can also see how many bottles remain and what happened last time you opened one.