White paper
This project turned public wine-review material into a structured static research product: bottle cards with source links, captured notes, rank context, buy-search links, and filterable fields.
We needed a defensible way to say how long André Hueston Mack has been evaluating and recommending wine, then connect that credibility claim to a searchable database of his public wine discussion. The public-record framing matters because the site is not claiming access to private tasting notes or unpublished ratings.
Public videos, article references, podcast pages, television references, and competition materials were inventoried first. Each source was classified by whether it produced bottle-level data, general context, or no clean additional bottle list.
Named wines, wine styles, pairings, judgments, and explicit discussions were converted into normalized cards. Each card preserves source context instead of flattening every mention into the same kind of rating.
The static page organizes cards with practical controls: dollar rank, beanie rank, thumbs verdict, wine type, and review source. Buy-search and review-search links keep the page useful without pretending to be a retail catalog.
Outside notes and rating context are shown only where a public outside source was captured. Missing outside notes are not hidden in the data model, but the public hero no longer emphasizes the backlog as a front-page stat.