Are wines worth aging?

[Nightweaver20xx]

I thought it would be so simple: Grow starfruit > make starfruit wine > make aged starfruit wine > PROFIT. But wines age SO slow it doesn't feel worth it, and the supply is getting bottlenecked in the casks in my cellar. It feels more worth it just to sell the unaged ones for 3150 than age them for what feels like eternity to double their value.

[Duchess Minty]

Maybe age a batch and while those are aging make sweet berry or ancient fruit wines to sell as is?

[Suzaku]

Age what you can, sell the rest. More money is more money.

[Tristin]

No not really. Sure, it is more expensive if you age it, but not when considering overall factors. It is worth only when you have spare fruits and space to place down the casks. If you have option to place down more keg, it is just worth more to place down much of it down as possible and continue to feed into it instead of casks.

Further explanations here:
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Cask

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

It's worth aging if you're willing to forego an immediate income.

I personally didn't think it was worth it, myself so I didn't do it normally before I modded casks to age stuff four to five times faster. Rather than 50+ days to age something, it takes 15 days and I'm fine with that.

[beto.6122]

Dont age all the wines you can produce more than you can age, fill your casks sell the rest

[I Kinda Fail]

It has more to do with your resources at hand. If you only have, say, 20 kegs, then casks would help increase their value. If you have 2000 kegs, then no, casks really aren't worth it.

Casks are great for dairy farms, though. Aged goat cheese sells nicely.

[pcdeltalink]

I believe silver wine is 14 days in the casks but beyond that I don't think it's worth it. Only reason I'd be ok with the 14 days is I tend to just stockpile stuff to sell for several days until I need the money. I have a "money chest" that I just stash items I'm going to eventually sell (pale ale, jelly, wines, mayo, cheese, etc.) and then if a financial need comes up or the chest gets too full I sell it all. It's more satisfying to me to wait and sell lots of stuff at once rather than a smaller amount each day.

[Mircea The Young]

It's enough to look at the wiki to tell. Iridium aged wine sells for double the money, but takes 56 days. Making wine only takes 7 days. In the time it takes you to age the wine, you can make significantly more profit selling plain wine. Still, if you age really expensive wine while continue making cheaper wine, then maybe it might be worth it, but there are also other things you can age that take significantly less time. That said, it really will depend on your production capabilities.

Also, this really only plays into the misconception that ageing wine makes it better. It doesn't. It works for things like whiskey, where the older it is the better it is, but with wine it's not the age, but the year, because you can have a good year, or a bad year. That is why, when talking about the quality of a wine, you mention the year, not the age.

[Banana]

Iridium quality ancient fruit wine is very valuable. Fill your greenhouse with ancient fruits, make wine and age it, and just sell the rest. You'll be millionnaire in an instant (more like 2 months).

[Nightweaver20xx]

Thanks for the advice and comments everyone. I'll try some of the stuff you suggested.

[Halliwax]

This is actually a fairly complex question. Ultimately it comes down to whether the rate of return of aging it in a cask is better than other investments you could make. If there's something you want to buy (like seeds) before they would finish aging, and you wouldn't have enough money to buy them unless you sell, then you should probably sell.

On the other hand if you have enough cash to buy whatever you need during those 56 days, then its better to age them than just have it sit in your wallet. But at that point you're just getting more money for fun and not really to buy anything.

[AtmaDarkwolf]

If you can afford to 'not' sell it for 2 seasons (+ keg time) then cask them, make it purple wine, then sell. The profit is outstanding, BUT you only have limited areas to drop casks(cellar without mods, which I THINK is around 124-ish casks total)
So toss enough wine to fill all casks, maybe keep a few around to re-cask in 2 seasons (since you may not have option to grow that crop in alternate seasons) and sell the rest. It won't 'hurt' your profit margin in any way, all it does is take 'longer' to get more cash. (IE: You do NOT lose money/profit having aged wine, you ONLY gain)

Another note you may or may not know, if your kegging wine, but do not have enough kegs to consume all your crops, sell the silver/gold star fruits, since any processing of crops (kegs including) ignores quality of original crop. - So process non-star/normal quality crops before silver before gold, sell any overstock. ESP important if you run a greenhouse full of ancient fruits, if done right, you will get plenty far more crops than you could possibly keg even if you go absolute nuts and break every possible logic loophole and have kegs on ever available spot on the map: IE thousands and thousands of kegs. - I have managed to fill the sewer, tunnel, road /map where Pam/bus is, almost entire north of farm area, the entire quarry including bridge and path leading to adventures guild, entrance to mine, (Including the quarry mine where you find the 'upgraded' unupgradeable tool(not spoiling), entire area minus spot Leah(spelling?) wanders on right side of beach, and most of the area around the community center, and I STILL get more ancient fruit than I can stuff in casks (I run half my farm map with them also for 3 seasons)

[Hyunical]

I would only age Starfruit wine or if I have non I would age Ancient Fruit Wine its worth for what you get on your next year but I wont rely on aging as a primary source I already made 2 sheds to fill em up with kegs since I already filled my barns with them