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Understanding removal details

When you remove a bottle, the app asks for a Reason, a date and a Removal note. All three are optional — but the reason is the one that changes your numbers.

What each detail does

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Detail What it affects
Reason Your analytics count a bottle as drunk only when the reason is Consumed. Year in Review reads the removal date instead, so every reason counts towards its drinking cards. The reason is also a filter in Past bottles.
Date When the removal happened. Past bottles sorts and filters by it, and Year in Review uses it to decide which year a bottle belongs to. Leave it blank and we record today.
Removal note A short line for yourself — “Corked”, “Gifted to Alex”. It stays on the record, and searching your collection matches it, labelled Removal note: under the wine. For a proper tasting note, write a review instead.
Tags On iPhone, iPad and the web you can add or clear tags in the same step.

The seven reasons

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Consumed is already selected. Whichever you pick, the date heading renames itself to match.

Reason Date heading What it means
Consumed Consumed on Bottle was consumed
Gifted Gifted on Bottle was given as a gift
Sold Sold on Bottle was sold
Broken Broken on Bottle was broken or damaged
Expired Expired on Bottle has expired or gone bad
Donated Donated on Bottle was donated
Missing Noticed on Bottle is missing from the collection

Delete is not on this list. It is a separate, permanent action, and a deleted bottle never reaches Past bottles. If your collection has custom removal reasons of its own, the grid shows those instead of the seven above.

Changing the details later

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Open the bottle in Past bottles and tap Edit details. A Removal details section holds the same reason, date and note. Select several past bottles first to set all three on the batch at once. Android offers the same Removal Details section.

On each platform

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iPhone & iPad:  Reason → date → Removal note → Tags → Confirm
Android:  Reason → date → Removal note → Confirm
Web:  Remove → pick the reason → date → Removal Notes → Tags → Remove

On the web you choose the reason from the Remove menu before the panel opens, so the panel is already titled with it. Android has no tags step yet, and its date heading always reads Consumed on whichever reason you pick — the reason itself still saves correctly.

Next steps

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