A German label offers you Spätlese, a Spanish one says reserva, an Italian one prints DOCG in small type, and a French one gives you a village you cannot find on a map. Only part of that belongs in your inventory, and putting the wrong part in the wrong field makes the bottle harder to find later, not easier.
Four places a label term can go
The producer field holds who made it. The wine name holds what they called it, including any term that is part of that name. The vintage holds a year or nothing at all. Everything else is a note, and most of a busy label belongs in that fourth category or in no category at all.
The test is simple. If you would use the word to find the bottle again, it belongs in a field. If you would only use it to describe the wine to someone else, it belongs in a note. If neither, leave it on the label.
Aging words: crianza, reserva, riserva
These are part of the wine name, and they describe time rather than quality. In Rioja the periods are set by the region and published by its regulator, with defined minimums in barrel and in bottle for crianza, reserva and gran reserva, as the Consejo Regulador sets out. Record the term with the name: "Rioja Reserva" is how the bottle is sold and how you will search for it.
The catch is that the same word carries different rules in different places, and in some regions and countries it carries none at all. Treat it as a naming convention plus a hint about how the wine was raised, not as a grade. It is a weak signal for a drinking window and no signal at all about whether you will like it.
Ripeness words: Kabinett, Spätlese, Auslese
German Prädikat terms describe how ripe the grapes were at harvest, measured as must weight, with minimums that vary by region and grape, as the Deutsches Weininstitut explains. They are part of the name, so record them there.
What they do not tell you is how sweet the wine tastes. A Spätlese can be made dry, and the label will often say trocken if it is. If sweetness matters to you, put dry or off-dry in your own note after tasting it, and keep that separate from the Prädikat you copied off the label.
Classification letters: DOCG, DOC, AOP, AVA
These say which set of rules the wine was made under and, usually, where it comes from. That makes them a region signal, useful if you search by region and clutter if you do not. Put the region name in the region field and leave the letters out unless you genuinely use them.
What they are not is a score. A DOCG bottle is not automatically better than a DOC one from the same producer, and the letters say nothing about the vintage in your rack or how it was stored since.
Words that mean less than they look
Reserve, in English or French, is unregulated in many countries and can mean whatever the producer wants. Old vines has no agreed definition in most places. Estate bottled means something specific in some countries and very little in others. Cuvée usually just means a blend or a particular batch.
None of them are lies, but none of them are fields. Keep the ones that help you recognize a specific bottle in a note, and drop the rest.
Producer: Wine name, including any aging or ripeness term: Vintage, or non-vintage, or not visible: Region and classification: Style words worth keeping: Words I am deliberately ignoring:
When in doubt, photograph and move on
A photograph of the front and back label preserves everything you decided not to type, which means a fast record is not a lossy one. The label scanning guide covers photographing labels so the text is actually readable later, and the non-vintage guide covers the one field where guessing does real damage.