Wine

Wine is an alcoholic drink (althought it can be made with 0% alcohol) made with grapes harvested from a Vineyard and allowed to ferment in a sealed Wine Barrel. Wine drunk at a Ceremonial Tasting Table, wine gives palate increases and allows one to fill a Wine Notebook. This allows one to raise their perception. All below content is copied from the T3 wiki and may not be relevant. But it's a starting point!

Grapes and Wine Barrels

To use a Wine Barrel, you must harvest the grapes from your vineyard and load the barrel. For every 21 grapes you put into a barrel, you will later get 1 bottle of wine out. After you have loaded the barrel with your grapes, you must then crush the grapes and seal the barrel. Doing so requires one Barrel Tap. You will then be asked to name this vintage of wine. Once the barrel is sealed, the grapes will begin to ferment into wine. You may siphon a sample of the wine at any time to check its progress without affecting the wine.

• It requires 21 grapes for one bottle of wine
• Cask Stats are Alcohol, Residual Sugar (RS), Tanin, and Acid
• RS = Grape sugar/2
• Tannin rates are determined by color*skin
• Acid is equal to Grape acid/10
• If you put grapes in a barrel and do not seal it, they will spoil just as if they were on you or in a chest.

Fermentation

A key value for wine barrels is 12% alcohol (at least early in your wine-making). 12% alcohol is required to satisfy the "high alcohol" tasting requirement in the beginner wine notebook (the second requires 13% alcohol wines, so don't forget to make some of those). In order to reach 12% alcohol, you need 6% residual sugar, or a sugar score on your grapes of 12. Grapes with a low sugar score than this will take longer to reach 12% alcohol, though it must be below ~25 before it's really noticeable. The minimum amount of time for any wine barrel to reach 12% alcohol about a RL week.

• Fermenting rates are determined by initial RS
• Each 0.1% of RS that ferments equals .2% alcohol (eventually)

Color

We do not yet have complete documentation (though it may exist out there somewhere) to support a single theory about color.

Wine Vintages and Aging

Bottled and barreled wines show vintages. Egypt's vintages started at vintage 0 in Akhet I of the first year of the telling, and the current vintage in Egypt is shown when you siphon a taste from a barrel. A new vintage happens on the first of every game month (about every 10 days in RL time). Despite what you see in the barrel, an individual wine's vintage is not locked-in until it is bottled. Though other changes are happening, wine in barrels does not age. The higher the vintage number on a bottle of wine, the younger the wine is.

When looking for wine to drink to satisfy the "vintage" requirements in your wine notebooks, make sure you're drinking a wine that is old enough. For example, if the current vintage in Egypt is 16, and the beginner wine notebook asks for a wine that is at least three vintages old, you need to find bottles of wine that are marked vintage 13 or less.

Basic Tasting Info

Wine has flavors dependent on where its grapes were grown. Each time you drink a wine, you will taste flavors depending on your palate, the wine, and the quality of glass it is drunk from. Known Flavors

It is best to drink wine from multiple quality wine glasses. With no palate increase (see below for palate increases) it is best to drink from a 9k glass, a 6k glass and a spot at the table with no glass. The more your palate increases and the more flavors/aromas a wine has you should try to drink it with 7 different qualities of glass ranging from 1k to 9k.

Sometimes when a wine is drunk it will give you a message saying your palate has increased. At this time we are not sure what triggers a palate increase (it may even be random).

• With no increases, you taste only the strongest flavor of the wine.
• Each increase beyond allows you to sense additional attributes in your wines.

Tasting To Complete Notebooks

You can get the notebooks at no cost from a School of Body, though there may be a level requirement. Once you've completed one notebook, return to the school to get the next. There is more involved to filling in the slots of your notebook than simply drinking the number of glasses each category requires; a great deal of variety is necessary. If you are struggling a bit to fill in your notebook, try trading wines with people who have different flavors than you.

Beginner Notebook

• 28 wines - Drink 28 different flavors. This is a bit tougher than the other categories, but it will be easier with palate increases.
• 14 12%+ alcohol wines - This can easily be accomplished by barreling grapes with high sugar. The higher the sugar the faster your wine will get to 12%.
• 14 high quality - The easiest of the beginners notebook. Just make wines with good quality.
• 7 3+ vintage wines - Drinking two 3+ vintage wines on a 9k+, 6k and no glass. That should get you 6 points usually. Then just drink any other 3+ vintage or a thin 3+ vintage works too.

Enthusiast Notebook

• 49 wines - As 28 wines above. Hopefully you will have more palate increases by now to assist with 49 different flavors.
• 14 sweet wines - A 'sweet wine' is one that has RS of 10% or more when bottled. To accomplish this your grapes must have at least 20 sugar or more when you add them to the barrel. Insta-bottling is a great way to knock off these 14. Even a 'thin' sweet wine will count for a point.
• 14 13%+ alcohol wines - This is harder because a 13% alcohol wine takes about a month (RL) in the barrel. Best way to make quick 13% wines is to have at least 50 sugar on your grapes and a good balance of other stats.
• 21 very good quality wines - Same are high quality on beginner notebook.
• 14 5+ vintage wines - Patience... Whenever you make wine, always try to put a few bottles away for future use.

Oenophile The requirements for this book seem to have changed sometime in early to mid January...they are now:

• A sampling of 70 Wines.
• Explorations of Berries (21 Wines)
• Explorations of Spice (14 Wines)
• Explorations of Dried Fruit (7 Wines)
• Sweet Flavors of Caramel (7 Wines)
• Confluence of Lemon and Apricot (7 Wines)
• Confluence of Walnut and Tobacco (1 Wine)
• Seven very old (9+ vintages) wines

They were previously:

• A sampling of 70 Wines
• Explorations of Berries (21 Wines)
• Explorations of Tropical Fruit (14 Wines)
• Explorations of Dried Fruit (7 Wines)
• Sweet Flavors of Caramel (7 Wines)
• Confluence of Lemon and Cherry (7 Wines)
• Confluence of Walnut and Tobacco (1 Wine)
• Seven very old (9+ vintages) wines

Sommalier (Sommelier)

• A Sampling of 107 Wines
• Desert Explorations of Flowers (21 Wines)
• Desert Explorations of Nuts (21 Wines)
• Selections from Pharaoh's Cellar (21 Wines)
• Explorations of Vegetables (21 Wines)
• Extremely old (21+ vintages), Highly Alcoholic (14%+), Caramel Wines (3 Wines)
• Confluence of Blackberry, Tea, and Caramel (7 Wines)
• Ancient (35+ vintages) wines (21 Wines)

Tending Charts

• Balance

Links and Other Guides

• Grapes Tool
• Known Flavors
• Vineyard Tracker
• VineSim
• Winer