Gold Star or no Star for Wine?

[Sgt. SiBou]

I have many gold star fruits and many normal, no star fruits. If i make wine out of gold star fruits, will the wine be worth more or will i just be wasting the quality?

[TheLovelyJenn]

When you make wine it comes out as no stars. To get wine to have a star value you have to put the wine in a cask which will allow you to get wine that's above gold star quality.

[Baruch_S]

Wine is still worth 3x the value of the no-star fruit. You'll make slightly less profit if you put high quality fruit into a keg, but the wine will always sell for more than the fruit.

[YetiChow]

It really comes down to how many kegs you have -- if you're producing more fruit than you have kegs for, use the lowest-quality fruit in the kegs to maximise your profits, and sell the remaining fruit for quick cash.

However, if you have many many kegs and no urgent cash requirement, you'll make more profit in the long run if you turn all your fruit to wine.

So yes, you would be 'wasting' the quality of those gold star fruits... although if you're just after pure profits, it's actually not a waste unless you have some other requirement for those gold starred fruits; or else have so much fruit that you can keep your kegs constantly producing without needing to use up the gold starred fruit.

[H. P. Hatecraft]

If possible, make artisan goods out of no star items and sell/bundle the higher quality stuff. But if you to, go ahead and use the higher quality stuff to make the artisan goods. You don't actually lose profit.

[Corwin Alexander Gaming]

Quality: Sell as:
Fruit Jelly Wine Aged Wine

No Star 750g 1550g 2250g 4500g
Silver Star 938g 1550g 2250g 4500g
Gold Star 1125g 1550g 2250g 4500g

Time Required 13d 17d 20d 48d
Profit/day
(sales-400) 27g 68g 93g 85g
41g
56g

If you/re not worried about time and have enough kegs/casks to keep up, then sell as aged wine for 4100g profit per 400g seed (the only relevant cost).

Note that if you sell the fruit as fruit to "not waste quality" you are actually losing profits (725g vs 1850g in the case of gold star Starfruit vs non-aged wine, 725g vs 4100g in the case of gold star Starfruit vs aged (iridium quality) wine).

TL:DR - you are not "wasting quality" by turning it into wine, but "wasting profits" by not turning it into wine.