Vintner

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, design working cellars, and build a collection of distinct vintages whose quality reflects how they were grown, produced, and stored.

Vineyard Cultivation

• Red and white grape cultivars
• Two-block grapevines with harvesting and regrowth
• Renewable cuttings through pruning
• Connected trellises with corners, junctions, isolated placement, and end braces
• Vertical and uneven-terrain vineyard construction
• Multiple vanilla wood-family variants
• Prepared vineyard soil
• Vineyard-condition inspection
• Growing conditions that influence grape and wine quality
• Starter cuttings from farmers, wandering traders, and village loot

Winemaking

Vintner provides a physical production chain rather than a menu-driven crafting system.

1. Grow and harvest grapes
2. Press four matching grapes into must
3. Ferment a complete batch
4. Transfer the finished wine into an ageing vessel
5. Develop the wine in a cellar
6. Store, catalogue, inspect, or eventually consume the finished vintage

Winemaking machinery includes visible progress, comparator support, persistent batches, and safe metadata preservation.

Wine Quality

Every wine develops a persistent quality score from 0–100.

Quality tiers are:

• Rough
• Table
• Good
• Fine
• Exceptional
• Legendary

Quality is influenced by the full production chain, including vineyard conditions, pressing, fermentation, ageing, and cellar storage.

Higher-quality wines provide stronger and longer-lasting benefits, better pairing potential, greater estimated value and prestige, fewer faults, and improved ageing potential.

Poor storage can eventually damage or spoil a wine.

Vintages and Provenance

Wine retains its identity throughout production.

A bottle can record information including:

• Grape variety
• Vintage and batch
• Winery origin
• Producer
• Estate
• Bottling day
• Ageing vessel
• Bottle number
• Wine style
• Quality
• Cellar history
• Estimated trade value
• Cellar prestige

Vintner's Almanac

The Almanac provides detailed information without overloading ordinary item tooltips.

Use it to inspect:

• Vintage and provenance
• Quality breakdown
• Tasting profile
• Body and finish
• Wine style
• Estate identity
• Age and cellar history
• Ageing vessel
• Estimated value
• Cellar prestige
• Whether a bottle should be held, enjoyed now, or is past its peak

It can also inspect cellar storage and ageing vessels directly in the world.

Cellars

Wine storage responds to its surroundings.

Cellar evaluation includes:

• Shelter
• Depth
• Darkness
• Humidity
• Nearby heat
• Temperature stability
• Machinery disturbance

Good cellar conditions can help a vintage develop, while poor conditions can progressively damage it.

Ageing Strategies

Different ageing vessels offer different approaches rather than simple power upgrades.

• Standard barrels — balanced ageing
• Toasted barrels — faster, bolder development with a red-wine preference
• Seasoned barrels — slower, gentler ageing focused on preserving fruit character
• Cellar casks — eight-bottle bulk maturation

Specialist treatments can be applied to ordinary barrels using the cooperage system while preserving the barrel's wood-family appearance.

Physical Cellar Storage

Vintner includes multiple inventory-free storage options:

• Wine Racks
• Wine Crates
• Barrel Stands
• Labelled Cellar Shelves
• Tasting Cabinets
• Vintage Archives

Stored wine continues ageing and retains its full metadata through save/load and chunk unloading.

Getting Started

1. Acquire a red or white grape cutting
2. Build connected trellis rows
3. Plant the cutting
4. Prepare the soil with compost
5. Grow and harvest the vine
6. Press grapes into must
7. Ferment a complete batch
8. Age the wine
9. Build a cellar
10. Begin developing and cataloguing vintages

The Vintner advancement tree guides the main progression.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.2
• Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer
• Fabric API
• Java 25
• Client and server

Roadmap

Planned development includes:

• Placeable wine bottles
• Wine glasses and partial servings
• Expanded food pairings and cooking
• Deeper vineyard maintenance
• Additional grape varieties
• Terroir and seasonal systems
• Estate progression and reputation
• Wine trade and settlement demand
• World-generated vineyards and rare discoveries
• Optional integration with farming, cooking, seasons, transport, and settlement mods
• Rosé, sparkling, dessert, fortified, and other wine styles
• Blending and expert winemaking
• Larger estate logistics and automation

Features may change as development and testing continue.

Links

• Website: https://vintnermod.com
• Modrinth: https://modrinth.com/mod/vintner
• Source: https://github.com/zenithgb/vintner
• Issues: https://github.com/zenithgb/vintner/issues

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.