Grand Cru: The Wine Maker
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Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v1.2.1 Update Hello, winemakers! The v1.2.0 notes closed with a promise: rank effects on wine prices arrive in the next update. This is that update. The rank becomes the price A multiplier for every rank — from +5% at Cru Bourgeois up to +40% at Grand Cru, paid on every channel a named wine can leave by: local sales, wholesale, chef contracts, importer deals and the auc...
Steam News · Aug 19
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v1.2.0 Update Hello, winemakers! Bordeaux had a classification long before you arrived. Time to get your name on it. Le Classement — the Bordeaux ranks (first release) A committee convenes every three winters — in years 3, 6, 9 and so on, it grades each of your brands on the wines bottled under that name over the past three years. Ranks never move between judgments. Fou...
Steam News · Aug 13
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v1.1.0 Update Bonjour, winemakers! Your winery now has somewhere to stand next to everyone else's. Steam Leaderboards Two global boards — Total Revenue (what your winery earned) and Most Expensive Wine (the highest price a single bottle of yours ever sold for). Both show your winery name next to your Steam name, and the top wine board names the bottle. Scores are what t...
Steam News · Aug 10
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v1.0.2 Update Bonjour, winemakers! Everything in this patch came from players telling me what was wrong. Three separate people reported the same broker bug within two days. Bug Fixes The broker only sold the first wine on your list — Each buyer took one wine, and the code always started from the top of your cellar. If you had 40 different wines, the other 39 never got t...
Steam News · Aug 9
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v1.0.1 Hotfix Bonjour, winemakers! Two of you reported the same thing within a day of launch, and you were both right. Blending was broken in a way that quietly blocked the heart of the 1.0 story. Here is the fix. Bug Fixes Blending forced the entire primary lot — A blend always poured in every bottle of the primary wine and only trimmed the partner. That meant a 60:40 ...
Steam News · Aug 8
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker v1.0 — Full Release Bonjour, winemakers! Today, Grand Cru leaves Early Access. This is the story we set out to finish: inherit a struggling vineyard, survive the debt your father left behind, understand the wine he could never forget, and decide what his legacy becomes in your hands. v1.0 brings that journey to its conclusion. The Father's Legacy — Complete A Four-Year Pr...
Steam News · Jul 24
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v0.10.1 Update Bonjour, winemakers! A point update that brings your market to life — and clears up one of the sneakiest traps in the deal room. New — Market Visitors A Face at the Stall — Some seasons a stranger now turns up at your market: a wine student, a travelling chef, a foreign importer, and — rarely — a collector whose name you already know. Each visit is a smal...
Steam News · Jul 23
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v0.10.0 Update Bonjour, winemakers! For too long the château kept its secrets. A buyer walked away and you never knew why. A bottle sold for a fortune — or a pittance — and the number just appeared. This update pulls back the curtain: v0.10.0 is all about seeing the why behind your economy. Gameplay Price Causality Panel — Every wine now reveals the full chain behind it...
Steam News · Jul 22
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v0.9.2 Update Bonjour, winemakers! A small patch with one purpose: making your Tasting Room feel handcrafted, not computer-drawn. Visual Polish Finished Edges — Tables, shelves, frames and the fireplace now catch candlelight along softly rounded edges, like real joinery. Deeper Shadows — New ambient shading settles the furniture into the room: shelves sit snug in their ...
Steam News · Jul 21
Grand Cru: The Wine Maker — v0.9.1 Update Bonjour, winemakers! A focused patch that deepens the Tasting Room economy and smooths a few rough edges. Gameplay & Balance Tasting Room Upkeep — Each Tasting Room tier now carries a quarterly upkeep cost, tuned across a 50-year simulation. Prestige has a price to maintain. Total Cost of Ownership — Tier cards and the purchase confirmation now show the fu...