Grand Cru: The Wine Maker

FINALLY. This is the game I've been searching for my whole life as a wine lover 🍷 A wine-making management sim that actually gets it right — fermenting, oak barrel aging, buying properties, blending… I literally lost track of time. The depth is insane. Personally I'm obsessed with Burgundy wines, PLEASE make a Burgundy expansion pack. And the storyline about the father's wine?? Did NOT expect to feel things playing a wine sim 😭 Whoever made this clearly has a deep passion for wine — the accuracy and detail blew me away.

This is it. If you have been looking for a winemaking simulator, this is going to be the one you want to keep an eye on. First, the iffy parts of the game. It is definitely early access. You have some pretty rough visuals paired with AI-generated backdrops. You go from basic shape abstract intro to detailed oil paintings of erudite wine buyers in a matter of seconds. It's a bit jarring. The game definitely has bugs, the English translations are solid but it suddenly includes Korean text in some areas. Definitely early access. But the core of the game has it. The detail is there. I am actually learning what it takes to make it as a wine maker on Bordeaux. The story is engaging and fun, in barely 30 minutes of playing I've already gotten a great backstory and am fully committed. The gameplay loop is fun as hell, the interface isn't terrible, the developer is responsive and forthcoming, and <3 for having a port for Mac so I don't have to run a Virtual Machine (Mac version runs flawlessly too). I'd say buy the game, support the dev, and let's help this vision reach it's full potential.

Definitely enjoying this game. Very impressed by the wealth of wine information and accuracy that similar games are lacking. Certainly makes for a fun afternoon or two. Edit: The updates have been flowing and I'm so happy to see this wonderful little escape grow and expand! I have removed points of my review that have been fixed through updates.

Great little game!!! Vey fun, easy to learn, and satisfying. Also, appropriately detailed for it's relative simplicity, as in different AOCs/regions having different soils and the different soils appropriately being more suited to one grape or another, and like the need to harvest well; it's frustrating to get rain, but it shows that if you put in the investment and effort earlier in the year, you can offset some bad weather. This is all from playing on the LegionGO, so my issues my partially be only there. There are a number of little confusing things that would be great to see adjusted: - Blending wines - I can't see which specific lots, so I have to guess. Would be nice to have a fuller project menu to see old wines, etc. - I'd also like maybe a bit more options in blending, like a 3-way blend or more, but I see how that could get exponentially more complicated. -I'm not sure I understand the wine rating system. If most things seem to go well all year and the initial estimated rating is 86, why did I get a 71? - Some of the purchasing choices from the characters seem arbitrary. I'd get if one guy didn't buy white wine, but if I have two Merlot bottlings from sister lots that scored within a point of each other, why does one character not want both, but I can go sell everything else? - I'd like to be able to click on a character to sell to and have a large menu where I can check each wine I want to sell within that character's deal menu, and also maybe to decide on bottle quantity and price separately (but where they still influence each other, obviously) - A bit more time and/or workability in harvesting regarding weather seems needed. Not sure what. - Also, the end of season results menu that pops up is always cut if half for me, but I've only been playing it on my LegionGO so far. I think the move up the Bordeaux rankings ladder is too fast (like I'm number 1 overall, but I've only had two 90+ wines.) -Regarding menus, the whole game certainly looks nice and orderly, but various menus could be much more efficient/ergonomic is information displayed and in various controls, like the Spring menu with planting, pruning, and soil treatment, or the sale menu where I can see the name I gave the wine, it's category, it's estimated value. etc. - I want to unlock more restricted buyers higher up in the levels. It's nice to see Charles de Rothschild, but I want some more like him, and I don't want to see that option till I've consistently made X-number of X-point wines for X-amount of years or consistency, etc. - I think awards and news should be harder to achieve - I have no idea where I am in the progress of attaining Father's blend. I know the components, but am I waiting for anything else? if I have an 86 point X and an 82 point Y, why is the blend 75 points? And if my tasting skills is maxed, why does it say I need to taste more wine before gleaning more information about the saved bottles from Father? And shouldn't his wine be rated like 99? Love the game!!! Keep it up!

中评，给个好评鼓励一下吧。 我觉得游戏的主卖点其实是议价和卖出更好的酒，关键在于和卖家battle的互动。但目前来看，体力点的限制让我一天最多只能和1-2位卖家battle，而且一旦battle失败我也没有其他获取资金的空间；battle的引导也做得一般，而且完全没有给玩家（至少在我看来没有）battle的感觉，只有“啊？这就成了？”和“啊？这都没成”的感觉。 此外游戏界面确实有些简陋和kv呈现出较大差距，新手引导做得一般甚至会出现我体力没了引导才出现，只能在首页跳到下一季而其他界面不可以一度让我以为出现bug，在没有提升技能之前总有一种抓瞎的感觉只能凭借直觉判断加多少乳酸巴拉巴拉之类而没有任何线索（虽然这在第一次升级后情况会变好但还是希望在游戏最开始时有一些线索让我有点准备），还有为啥我一个人品鉴酒要喝6瓶我是什么绝世酒鬼以品鉴为理由都喝光吗？

와인을 잘 모르더라도 재밌게 플레이했습니다. 좋은 와인을 만들어보기, 테이스팅 평가에서 정답을 잘 맞추기, 부동산 구매하기 등 적절한 도전 목표들이 있어서 몰입해서 게임을 했습니다. 개발자 분께서 업데이트도 바로바로 해주시고, 또 계속 게임을 개선시켜주셔서 지금도 재밌지만 앞으로도 더욱 기대됩니다!!

Jeu agréable de style plutôt détente. Toutefois après quelques heures, ce jeu devient extrêmement répétitif. En fait, il se résume à effectuer les vendanges (1 clic) puis régler des curseurs pour la vinification, mettre en bouteille et en fin de compte de vendre les bouteilles. A partir d'un certain niveau, les ventes automatiques suffisent largement. Cela est assez plaisant dans un premier temps. Par contre, il n'y a pas beaucoup de cépages, seulement cinq, les cinq principaux : Cabernet sauvignon, Sauvignon blanc, Cabernet franc, Sémillon et Merlot. En région bordelaise, les vins sont réalisés avec plus de cépages, notamment les Petit verdot, Malbec et Carménère en rouge et les Muscadelle, Colombard, Merlot blanc, Sauvignon gris et Ugni blanc en blanc. Quant-aux terroirs, ils auraient pu être plus complets et mieux découpés pour englober la totalité du bordelais. La vinification en elle-même est plutôt simpliste, quelques curseurs et hop, c'est fait. Une approche plus précise aurait permis de créer plus de difficulté dans l'élaboration pour atteindre le sommet des vins de bordeaux. Idem pour l'impossibilité d'assembler plus de deux cépages dans un même vin, ce qui est pourtant courant pour certains domaines. Economiquement, il n'y a aucun challenge également. Alors oui, c'est plaisant, d'autant plus que dans ce domaine les jeux sont inexistants. Pour cela, je mets une évaluation positive, mais j'aimerais quand même beaucoup plus de complexité. En l'état actuel, le jeu est trop simple et trop répétitif, ce qui influe sur sa durée de vie.

Tolles Spiel, schöne Atmosphäre und gute Zeichnungen. Passende Musik und vor allem keine Hetze, keine Hektik. Für mich genau das richtige Game . Volle Empfehlung.

나름 괜찮은 시뮬레이션 게임. 한번은 재밌게 즐겼는데 아직은 와인처럼 묵혀두고 조금 더 지켜볼 예정. 1. 일단 농지가 많아질수록 관리가 너무 귀찮아진다. 복잡하진 않은데 클릭할 게 너무 많아서 귀찮음. 농지를 클릭하고 가지치기를 하거나 이런 방식인데, 좀 더 UI를 손 보거나 한 번에 처리하기를 만들어줘야할 듯. 수확은 한 방이 되는데 다른 건 묶음으로 안되는 게 좀 귀찮음. 2. 와인 판매는 내 상업 스킬 MAX 찍었을 때 자동화를 해주던지, 의도된 거라면 최적의 값을 바로 넣어주던지 해주라. 어차피 정답이 딱 나오는데 그거 맞춘다고 시간 소모하는 게 재밌다기 보단 좀 귀찮다는 인상이 강함. 3. 그리고 블랜딩 하는 건 숙성 후에는 안되는 건지 모르겠는데, 바로 해야하더라고. 원래 블랜딩이라는 게 그런건지 와인 초보라서 그런지 잘 모르겠음. 그걸 정보 표시 해줬으면 좋았을 것 같다. 4. 고유명사는 외국어로 쓰던지 한글로 쓰던지 하나만 해줬으면 좋겠음. 백과사전에서는 영어? 프랑스어? 뭐 그런 식으로 되어 있고, 내부에서는 한글로 되어있다보니까 medoc이 오메독인지 몰라서 한참 찾음. 5. 그리고 한글 폰트 눈 아픔. 어쨌든 소소한 이벤트들도 나름 신선함을 주고 시뮬레이션 짜임새가 좋은데, 아직 컨텐츠가 너무 부족해서 아쉽다. 정식 출시 때는 양질의 컨텐츠 추가와 UI 및 편의성 개선만 좀 부탁드립니다. 정식출시하면 다시 시작하려고요

Finally a wine simulator with great potential. I agree with a lot of others who already wrote positive comments. So to the developer I say: keep up the good work! I do have a tip that would help me as a (lazy) gamer: The amount of AP points per round is a bit too low. It helps to support to decision making in the game, but sometimes without realising I am left with zero points and still need to do winery work like wine making. Somebody wrote a comment that the whole wine making process should be separated from the AP points. I feel the same. Further, some menu's could use a better background (like the winery). Goodluck with the rest of the development!