WOODBRIDGE
, for example, a
screen will appear with a list of dif-
ferent varietals to choose from:
BARBERA
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
CHARDONNAY
MERLOT
PINOT GRIGIO
PORT
SAUVIGNON BLANC
SYRAH
ZINFANDEL
After you scroll through this list
and select a varietal of wine by
pressing
ENTER
, a new screen will
appear. If, for example, you select
PORT
, the following information
will then appear:
#90 $20 ALL
WOODBRIDGE
PORTACINCO
1994 750CL 18.4%
You see that this wine has a rating
of 90 and sells for about $20. In
addition to the name and vintage,
the size of the bottle and the alcohol
content are included.
Note that
N/V
will be displayed if
a wine has no vintage. If a wine has
a special designation, such as
RESERVE
, that information will
also appear. The screen will also let
you know if this wine is considered
a
BEST BUY, EDITOR’S PICK or
CELLAR BUY
by
Wine Enthusiast
Magazine
. (See
Wine Enthusiast
Magazine Rating System
, page 14.
)
—
SELECTING A VINTAGE
—
Sometimes after you select a
varietal of wine, a new screen
will appear offering you a
selection of vintages. For
example, if you choose
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
from the
WOODBRIDGE
win-
ery list, a screen appears with
the following choices:
1997
1998
1999
2000
Scroll to the vintage of your
choice and press
ENTER
to
select the year for the wine
you are interested in reading
about.
—
SELECTING A DESIGNATION
—
In some cases, you might be
given a screen for choosing a
wine’s designation. For
example, if you are searching
for Acacia Winery’s 1997
Pinot Noir, you would be
asked to choose between
LEE
VINEYARD
and
ST
.
CLAIR VINEYARD
. After you
select a vineyard (a designation) the
information on the wine you are
looking for will appear on the
screen.
—
SCREEN SYMBOLS
—
Wine Master SE uses the following
screen icons or symbols.
A
icon indicates you are
looking at the home screen.
+
at the end of an item in a list
means that a new information
screen will be displayed if
you select that item by press-
ing
ENTER
.
+
at the bottom right of a screen
showing a review, definition or
other paragraph indicates that more
text will appear on the screen if you
turn the neck of the bottle in the
direction of the
DOWN ARROW
to
scroll down. If no
+
appears at the
bottom of the screen, that indicates
you have reached the end of the
review, definition or paragraph.
MEM
indicates you have saved a
wine to memory.
3
X
indicates you have selected to
scroll three lines at a time.
ABC
indicates you have selected to
scroll through a list alphabetically
by first letter.
ALL
indicates that Wine Master SE
has searched its entire database for
a wine.
#
indicates a
Wine Enthusiast
Magazine
rating.
$
indicates the price you can expect
to pay for a wine at a store.
—
USING THE
3x
BUTTON
—
Turn the neck of the bottle in the
direction of the
UP
or
DOWN ARROW
to scroll through a list line by line--
to find a winery you are looking for
perhaps. If you want to scroll
through a list more quickly, press
the
3
X
key. (The
3
X
icon will
appear at the top of the screen.)
Then turn the neck
UP
or
DOWN
to
scroll three lines at a time. Press
3
X
again to turn this mode off and
return to scrolling line by line.
—
USING THE ABC BUTTON
—
If you’d like to jump through the
list of wineries (or another list)
even more quickly by alphabetical
first letter, press
ABC
. The
ABC
icon
will appear at the top of the screen.
Then turn the neck either
UP
or
DOWN
to proceed through the list
by alphabetical first letter. (Note
that the list begins again with the
initial letter “A” after you have
scrolled through the "Z" listings.)
When you reach the desired initial
letter, press
ABC
again to turn this
mode off. Then turn the neck of the
bottle
UP
or
DOWN
to scroll line by
line until you have found the win-
ery you are searching for. Press
ENTER
to select that winery.
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