5 Star Wine Guide

[adp123]

Varietal - Acidity - Sweetness - Tannins
Chardonnay - 7 - 6 - 6
Cabernet Sauvingnon - 6 - 4 - 6
Sauvignon Blanc - 8- 3 - 2
Syrah - 7 - 6 - 8
Merlot - 7 - 5 - 6
Pinor Noir - 6 - 5 - 2
Semillion - 4 - 4 - 2
Rot Semillion - 5 - 10 - 3
Grenache - 6 - 4 5
Grenache Rose 6 - 4 - 5
Zinfandel 7 - 5 - 4
Rkatsiteli 8 - 6 - 5 (only achievable with 4 star judges)

Syrah fixed thanks [501st] AC/DC
Zinfandel added

[Chris]

Numbers are wrong, on Syrah,

its 7-6-8 7-6-6 will get you a 3 star wine.

[Chris]

You are most welcome. I have syrah vines in my game that have consistently made 5 star wines every single time.

I am also a winemaker in real life. The games just a hobby and a bit of fun, even though its nothing like real winemaking, i would love a realistic wine making game thats multiplayer where players can compete against each other.

[Aeon]

i got a 6-4-6 for cabernet but i get sweetness too low and at 6-5-6 it's too high

[Milkymalk]

My guess is it depends on ripeness. My first wine ever was a ripeness 3 Cabernet Sauvignon (not enough sun) with 4-3-4 I think, and I got 5 stars.

[Chris]

Originally posted by Aeon:

i got a 6-4-6 for cabernet but i get sweetness too low and at 6-5-6 it's too high

cabs weird ingame i think its bugged right now

[Sayanel]

Just to kwow... How can I have 2 tannins on semillon or pinot noir ? (I mean, whithout using the white oak barrel)
It is just not possible, since pigeage already add +2, and common oak and steel vat stop at 4 (for sauvignon blanc, it stops at 2 according to the guide, so its ok)

[Rook]

white oak pretty much takes care of all your tannin and acidity problems for good once you get it, and indeed, it's impossible to get to 2 without it.

[WiSimler]

Originally posted by (501st)AC/DC:

... i would love a realistic wine making game thats multiplayer where players can compete against each other.

Your words in game developers ears!
There are so few sim-games with a real competing multiplayer out there, that younger players even don't know, such things are possible, and devs dare to say, that sims are traditional single-player games.
No! They aren't! They started derived from board games and where traditional multiplayer-games! Until SimCity arrived and was a single-player-game. After that time there wasn't very much multiplayer-games with trading or business background.

It would be so much fun to play against human competitors!

[Darth inVadeHer]

The 5 star combo for Zinfandel is 7-5-4.

I'm ashamed to say how many attempts I made to create a 5 star Rkatsiteli, but it never worked for me and I think it's due to a bug. I'm using the White Oak so I'm pretty sure the acidity and tanning are correct, but here are the results from my final 4 attempts:

8-5-5 - sweetness too low 4 stars
8-6-5 - sweetness too high 4 stars
8-6-5 - sweetness too high 3.5 stars
8-5-5 - sweetness too low 4 stars

I see no logic to this and no way to achieve 5 stars. If someone had any luck with it let me know.

[adp123]

The only way i've been able to get a 5 star Rkatsiteli is 8-6-5 with 4 star judges

[mayene]

Just picked up this game and adding my notes on combos!

These are the combos that got me 5-star ratings with 5-star judges; I usually try to harvest when ripeness hits about 5, but leaving wines in the White oak tend to help out.

These are Acidity/Sweetness/Tannins/(Body)

White wines:

• Chardonnay: 765(6)
  
• Sauvignon Blanc: 832(4)
  
• Grenache: 655(5)
  
• Grenache Rose: 635(5)
  
• Semillon Noble Rot: 593(6)

Red wines:

• Cabernet Sauvignon: 646(5)
  
• Merlot: 746(6)
  
• Pinot Noir: 652(4)
  
• Syrah: 768(7)

Still haven't gotten around to Semillon (not Noble Rot), Zinfandel, and Rkatsiteli, though.