# Bottega Whisky & Wine Bar: Agent-Direct Score C (68.6%)

Site: http://www.bottegawhiskey.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/bottegawhiskey.com
Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Bottega Whisky & Wine Bar is partly visible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by Bottega Whisky & Wine Bar's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://bottegawhiskey.com/product/woodford-reserve-malt-whiskey-45-2/ (on the business's own site)
- Phone: +27105001160
- Address: 17 Park Rd, 2190, Johannesburg

## What to fix first
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.** (+3.7 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data.** The site shows 0114474448, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +27105001160. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

## Fix kit: What to paste

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

## Already right
- **Structured data found (LiquorStore).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

## Where it stands
46 of 305 in Johannesburg cafes and bars. Top 15% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 94% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 53% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 91% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 19% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 41% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Fn Bar Pty Ltd (D, 2228 m, https://directindex.org/r/site123.me); SpinCity Edenvale Internet Lounge (F, 2953 m, https://directindex.org/r/wixsite.com).

## What assistants answer
The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236087 sites); This site 68.6%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/bottegawhiskey.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Bottega Whisky & Wine Bar in Johannesburg cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Johannesburg cafes and bars | 305 | 45% | 14% | 68.6% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Johannesburg cafes and bars | 137 | 56% | 20% | 68.6% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Johannesburg cafes and bars: Saigon Suzy (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/saigonsuzy.co.za); E Bar (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/thabahotel.co.za); Doppio Zero (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/doppio.co.za); Fit Café (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/duality-fitness.com); Hava Java Stonehill (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/havajava.co.za).

With the three fixes above (No menu or price list found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 305 in Johannesburg cafes and bars.

## The direct record
What agents get for Bottega Whisky & Wine Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/bottegawhiskey.com
- Book: https://bottegawhiskey.com/product/woodford-reserve-malt-whiskey-45-2/ (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +27105001160
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/bottegawhiskey.com/book

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /contact/: phone.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 14.6 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/bottegawhiskey.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: yes
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: yes
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: yes
- OAuth protected resource metadata: yes
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/bottegawhiskey.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/bottegawhiskey.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=bottegawhiskey.com&force=1