How to display products without selling them (or using the typical ecommerce modules)? I am working on a project with drupal 7. My drupal experience is limited and Im a bit stuck on how to achieve a good structure.

The site will have products like wine, sherries and spirits. Each of these product types will have subcategories. (example: like red / white wine) Within these subcategories there will be certain brands of wines.

Since the website is focussing only on displaying the products and not selling them, I really do not want to use any ecommerce software, or modules.

Preferably I would like the products to be a content type. There is a little catch to it. All categories, so in the examples above; wines, sherries, spirits BUT ALSO red / white wines should have a description and a image.

Can anyone shed some light on how to create this in drupal 7. I have searched a lot but I'm not sure what the right approach would be. Thanks!
The easiest way to achieve this without using "commerce" modules are taxonomy and vocabularies, using the Entity Reference Module.

A  simple workflow to achieve this would be:

1).Create the corresponding Vocabulary with the desired term structure from admin/structure/taxonomy/add, for example:


Wine

Red



Brand #1  etc.




2). Create The Content Type with the desired Fields

3). In the content type, add an "Entity Reference" Field, assigning it to the vocabulary

4). Create your products (Add content)

5). Create Views to customize the display of each page depending on the term level (using filters)