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<p>The International Standard Wine Number or ISWN, similar to the <a href="/facts/ISBN/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> for books, was a coding scheme intended to give a <a href="/facts/Unique_identifier/NMcgc7qX">unique identifier</a> for each <a href="/facts/Wine/przCrC98">wine</a> worldwide. The ISWN system had a consistent unique code for each wine producer (ISWN-P), each wine brand or product (ISWN-W), each <a href="/facts/Vintage/x7DeqgDX">vintage</a> variant of a wine product (ISWN-V), and the bottle variants (ISWN-B). The ISWN was allocated by the ISWN Organization on the basis of a global reference database of wine producers and wines worldwide. The database was improved through wine producers updating their own data with the ISWN Manager module. The ISWN Organization was a <a href="/facts/Non-profit_organization/AmXu2c85">Non-profit organization</a> sponsored by the wine industry. </p>