# CUVEE — bev-cuvee.ai

> The classification standard for beverage alcohol. CUVEE — Catégorie · Usage · Vignoble · Étiquette · Échelon (Category · Customs class · Origin · Label · Price tier) — is the classification standard for beverage alcohol on the agent-bev record: one address per product that an AI agent can resolve.

Operator: Agent Holdings S.A., Barcelona · held by Agentic KG Holdings (https://agent-kg.ai/) · Surface: https://bev-cuvee.ai · Surface version 0.1.2 · spec cuvee-1 · as of 2026-09-26

Notice: Artificial intelligence makes mistakes. agent-bev is an information source, not a recommendation.

## The string

cuvee:<segment>:<hs_code>:<country>[/<region>][/<protected_name_slug>]:<gtin|->:<tier|->

- segment: beer · wine · spirits · cider_perry · rtd
- hs_code: a Harmonized System chapter-22 heading or six-digit subheading in use
- origin: two-letter country, then region and protected-name slug only when sourced
- gtin: a GS1 GTIN, or - when absent
- tier: value · standard · premium · super_premium · ultra_premium · prestige, or - when no source states it; a tier is never inferred

## The door

- MCP (Model Context Protocol), streamable HTTP: https://mcp.bev-cuvee.ai/mcp — tools validate_cuvee, list_vocab, resolve_cuvee, explain_cuvee; read-only, no account
- Server card: https://mcp.bev-cuvee.ai/.well-known/mcp.json
- Agent Card (A2A): https://agent.bev-cuvee.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json · skills index https://agent.bev-cuvee.ai/.well-known/skills.json (empty until the skills are written)
- resolve_cuvee and explain_cuvee answer in words until records exist on the Spain node

## The vocabularies

- https://bev-cuvee.ai/vocab/segments.json — the five categories (source: Euromonitor)
- https://bev-cuvee.ai/vocab/hs.json — chapter-22 headings and subheadings in use (source: Harmonized System as published in the UK Trade Tariff API)
- https://bev-cuvee.ai/vocab/tiers.json — the six tiers, ordered (source: IWSR price bands as published)
- origins/<country>.json arrive with each country's harvest

## Machine kit

- https://bev-cuvee.ai/.well-known/ai-catalog.json (also /ai-catalog.json) · https://bev-cuvee.ai/.well-known/security.txt · https://bev-cuvee.ai/robots.txt · https://bev-cuvee.ai/status (live read)
- Keyring: https://bev-registry.ai/.well-known/jwks.json — records are signed with bev-record-2026-10

## Licence

Specification and vocabularies CC BY 4.0, attribution "CUVEE by agent-bev / Agent Holdings S.A.". Door code MIT. The record itself is not licensed by this file.

## Twins

- https://bev-cuvee.com/ and www forward (301) to https://bev-cuvee.ai/