Vintner
Vintner is a vineyard, winemaking, and cellar-management mod for Minecraft.
Build connected vineyard rows, cultivate red and white grapevines, press grapes into must, ferment and age wine, develop specialist cellars, and build a collection of distinct vintages whose quality reflects how they were grown, produced, and stored.
Features
Vineyard cultivation
- Red and white grape cultivars
- Two-block-high grapevines with harvesting and regrowth
- Renewable grape cuttings through pruning
- Connected trellises with corners, junctions, isolated placement, and automatic end braces
- Vertical and uneven-terrain vineyard construction
- Trellis variants across supported vanilla wood families
- Prepared vineyard soil
- Vineyard-condition inspection
- Grape vintage and quality influenced by growing conditions
- Farmer, wandering-trader, and village-loot access to starter cuttings
Winemaking
- Manual grape pressing
- Persistent grape and wine batches
- Red and white grape must
- Fermentation barrels with visible progress
- Ageing barrels with persistent batch data
- Quality-sensitive red and white wines
- Comparator support for winemaking machinery
- Safe content preservation through save/reload and normal block interactions
Wine quality is built across the entire production chain rather than being decided at a single step.
Wine Quality
Every wine receives a persistent quality score from 0–100.
Quality is divided into six tiers:
- Rough
- Table
- Good
- Fine
- Exceptional
- Legendary
Quality can be influenced by:
- Vineyard conditions
- Pressing
- Fermentation
- Ageing vessel
- Cellar conditions
- Bottle storage
Higher-quality wines provide stronger and longer-lasting benefits, stronger food-pairing potential, greater estimated value and prestige, fewer faults, and improved ageing potential.
Poor storage can gradually damage a wine and eventually spoil it.
Vintages and Provenance
Wine retains its identity from grape pressing through fermentation, ageing, bottling, and cellar storage.
Bottles can record:
- Grape variety
- Batch identity
- Vintage
- Winery origin
- Producer
- Estate
- Bottling day
- Ageing vessel
- Bottle number
- Wine style
- Quality
- Storage history
- Estimated trade value
- Cellar prestige
This means two bottles of the same basic wine can develop into meaningfully different vintages.
The Vintner's Almanac
Craft a Vintner's Almanac to inspect detailed wine information without filling ordinary item tooltips with excessive data.
The Almanac can report:
- Vintage and batch
- Provenance
- Quality breakdown
- Tasting profile
- Body and finish
- Wine style
- Estate identity
- Bottle age
- Cellar history
- Ageing vessel
- Estimated trade value
- Cellar prestige
- Whether a bottle should be held, enjoyed now, or is past its peak
The Almanac can also inspect cellar storage and ageing vessels directly in the world.
Cellars
Where wine is stored matters.
Cellars evaluate environmental conditions including:
- Shelter
- Underground depth
- Darkness
- Humidity
- Nearby heat
- Temperature stability
- Machinery disturbance
Well-designed cellars can help wine develop. Poor cellars can progressively damage it.
Ageing Vessels
Vintner includes multiple ageing strategies rather than a simple linear upgrade path.
Standard barrels
Balanced general-purpose ageing.
Toasted barrels
Faster, bolder ageing that particularly suits powerful red wines, with increased risk.
Seasoned barrels
Slower and gentler ageing intended to preserve primary fruit character.
Cellar casks
Large eight-bottle vessels designed for slower bulk maturation.
Specialist vessel treatments can be applied through the cooperage system while retaining the visual wood family of the original barrel.
Cellar Storage
Build physical, inventory-free wine storage throughout your cellar.
Wine Racks
Store four visible bottles while allowing them to continue ageing.
Wine Crates
Store up to sixteen mixed bottles in compact cellar storage.
Labelled Cellar Shelves
Store up to eight bottles from a single batch, making complete vintages easier to organise.
Tasting Cabinets
Store up to eight mixed bottles for side-by-side collections and comparison.
Barrel Stands
Provide low-profile staging for working cellar spaces.
Stored bottles retain their full metadata through retrieval, chunk unloading, and save/reload.
Vintage Archives
Vintage Archives provide a physical record of a wine collection.
Catalogue up to sixteen unique batches without consuming the bottles.
Rescanning an existing batch updates its record instead of taking another slot.
The Almanac can then be used to inspect and cycle through the Archive's collection.
Getting Started
- Acquire a red or white grape cutting.
- Build connected trellis rows.
- Plant the cutting on a lower trellis.
- Prepare the ground with compost.
- Allow the vine to grow into its upper trellis.
- Harvest mature grapes.
- Press four matching grapes into must.
- Ferment a complete batch.
- Age the resulting wine.
- Build a cellar and begin developing your collection.
The Vintner advancement tree guides players through the main progression.
Requirements
- Minecraft 26.2
- Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer
- Fabric API
- Java 25
- Client and server
Roadmap
Vintner is developed in small, stable, and testable phases.
Current planned areas include:
- Placeable wine bottles
- Reusable wine glasses and partial bottle servings
- Expanded food pairings and cooking
- Deeper vineyard maintenance and pruning
- Additional grape varieties
- More advanced terroir and seasonal systems
- Estate progression and reputation
- Dynamic wine trade and settlement demand
- World-generated vineyards and rare discoveries
- Optional farming, cooking, seasons, transport, and settlement integrations
- Rosé, sparkling, dessert, fortified, and other advanced wine styles
- Blending and expert winemaking
- Larger estate logistics and automation
Features may be redesigned, reordered, combined, delayed, or removed based on testing, performance, compatibility, and gameplay quality.
Links
Vintner is developed as a ZenithGB project.
Vintner is an independent fan-made Minecraft mod and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mojang Studios or Microsoft.
