Wine
| Wine | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Artisan Good |
| Machine | Keg |
| Ingredients | Any Fruit (1) |
| Time | 10,000m (≈7d) |
Wine is what a Keg makes from any fruit, and it is the classic money-maker of a mature farm. Each bottle is worth three times the base price of its fruit, so valuable fruit such as Starfruit and Ancient Fruit turns into very large sums. A Cask in the cellar can then double that value, although Wine ages more slowly than any other Cask good. Harvey and Leah both love it as a gift. Wine also fills a slot in the Enchanter's Bundle, and a silver bottle helps reopen the old JojaMart as a Movie Theater.
The in-game description reads: Drink in moderation.
Making
Any fruit can go into a Keg, from orchard fruit to wild berries and even Hot Peppers. The Keg needs about a week to turn the fruit into Wine.
The fruit's quality has no effect on the Wine. A gold Starfruit and a plain one make the same normal-quality bottle, so only a Cask can add stars afterwards.
Every bottle takes the name of its fruit, such as Blueberry Wine or Starfruit Wine. The colour of the bottle changes with the fruit as well.
The Keg comes with level 8 of the Farming skill. Before that, completing the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry hands over a first Keg.
A few bottles of plain Wine arrive without any fruit at all. Villagers sometimes give one at the Feast of the Winter Star. Leah or Elliott, once married to the farmer, give a bottle on New Year's Eve. The Traveling Cart stocks plain Wine now and then.
Prices
Wine sells for three times its fruit's base price. Jelly from a Preserves Jar sells for twice the base price plus 50g, so the Keg pays more for any fruit worth over 50g. Cheap fruit such as Salmonberries and Blackberries earns more as Jelly.
Starfruit makes the most valuable Wine, and Ancient Fruit comes second. Ancient Fruit has its own strength: planted in the Greenhouse, it keeps fruiting all year without replanting. A Greenhouse full of it can keep a long row of Kegs working through every season.
The Artisan profession adds two fifths to every bottle.
A Cask raises Wine through silver and gold to iridium quality, and iridium doubles the price. Wine is the slowest Cask good of all. Silver takes two weeks, gold takes four weeks, and iridium takes eight weeks, a full two seasons. Hitting the Cask with an Axe, Hoe or Pickaxe lifts the bottle out early at its current quality.
Long ageing only pays for valuable Wine. Starfruit Wine earns the most gold for each day it sits in a Cask, well ahead of Ancient Fruit Wine. Cheap fruit wines gain too little each day to deserve the space. An iridium Starfruit Wine with the Artisan profession sells for over six thousand gold.
Casks can be placed anywhere on the farm, but they only accept goods inside the cellar. The final Farmhouse upgrade adds the cellar.
Uses
One bottle of any fruit Wine goes into the Enchanter's Bundle on the Bulletin Board of the Community Center. Finishing it rewards a stack of Gold Bars.
Once the Community Center is restored, the abandoned JojaMart opens its doors to the Missing Bundle. One slot asks for Wine of silver quality or better. That means a Cask in the cellar or a bottle bought from Gus at the Ginger Island Resort. Completing the bundle turns the old store into the Movie Theater.
On farms with Remixed Bundles, the Brewer's Bundle in the Pantry accepts Wine as well.
Blobfish ponds sometimes request a bottle of any Wine. Bringing it raises the pond's capacity from five fish to seven.
At the Sewing Machine, Wine in the spool sews the Black Leather Jacket, the same jacket Pale Ale makes. In the dye pots at 2 Willow Lane, Wine counts as purple.
The Community Center asks for Wine in these bundles.
| Bundle | Room | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Enchanter's Bundle | Bulletin Board | 1 |
Gifts
Harvey and Leah both love Wine, and any flavour counts as their loved gift. A bottle of cheap Blueberry Wine is therefore an easy present for either of them. Most other adults like it, including Clint, Gus, Pam and Willy. Jas, Leo, Penny, Sebastian and Vincent hate it.
These villagers love receiving Wine as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
|---|---|
| Harvey | 
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| Leah | 
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A bottle restores more energy and health the more filling its fruit is. Starfruit Wine is therefore a far better snack than Salmonberry Wine.
All Artisan Goods
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Machine | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged Roe | 
|
Preserves Jar | 4000m (3-4 days) |
| Beer | 
|
Keg | 1750m (≈29h) |
| Cask Productivity | - | - | - |
| Caviar | 
|
Preserves Jar | 6000m (4 days) |
| Cheese | 
|
Cheese Press | 200min (3.3h) |
| Cloth | 
|
Loom | 240m (≈4h) |
| Coffee | 
|
Keg | 120m (2h) |
| Dinosaur Mayonnaise | 
|
Mayonnaise Machine | 3h |
| Dried Fruit | 
|
Dehydrator | 1750m (≈1d) |
| Dried Mushrooms | 
|
Dehydrator | 1750m (≈1d) |
| Duck Mayonnaise | 
|
Mayonnaise Machine | 3h |
| Goat Cheese | 
|
Cheese Press | 200m (≈3h) |
| Green Tea | 
|
Keg | 180m (3h) |
| Honey | 
|
Bee House | 6100m (≈4d) |
| Jellies and Pickles | - | - | - |
| Juice | 
|
Keg | 6000m (≈4d) |
| Keg Productivity | - | - | - |
| Maple Syrup | 
|
Tapper; Heavy Tapper | 9 or 4 days |
| Mayonnaise | 
|
Mayonnaise Machine | 3h |
| Mead | 
|
Keg | 10h |
| Mystic Syrup | 
|
Tapper; Heavy Tapper | 7 or 3 days |
| Oak Resin | 
|
Tapper; Heavy Tapper | 7 or 3 days |
| Oil | 
|
Oil Maker | Varies by ingredient |
| Pale Ale | 
|
Keg | 2250m (37.5h) |
| Pine Tar | 
|
Tapper; Heavy Tapper | 5 or 2 days |
| Preserves Jar Productivity | - | - | - |
| Raisins | 
|
Dehydrator | 1750m (≈29h) |
| Smoked Fish | 
|
Fish Smoker | 50m |
| Truffle Oil | 
|
Oil Maker | 360m (6h) |
| Void Mayonnaise | 
|
Mayonnaise Machine | 3h |
| Wine | 
|
Keg | 10,000m (≈7d) |