The 'V' in ISWN-V stands for Vintage, and this code represents the yearly versions that are produced of a wine. The Vintage is an important parameter in the quality of a bottle of wine.

Use

Wine tasters use the ISWN-V reference as a key for their wine ratings and tasting notes.

Examples

The general format of the ISWN-V is a string of 17 characters.
It is a concatenation of a number of subcodes, each representing a key characteristic of a bottle of wine.
XXX - XX - XX.XXX - XXX / XXXX

The subcodes are the following:
CCC - RR - PP.PPP - WWW / YYYY