# Vineyard Architect — Grow a winemaking empire > Grow a winemaking empire (iPhone/iPad app by Postmark Digital LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vineyard-architect/id6794776474 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Postmark Digital LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6790569699) - Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 77 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-08 - Data updated: 2026-09-16 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vineyard-architect/id6794776474/reviews.md ## What is Vineyard Architect? Plant slowly. Weather the years. Build a wine empire. Vineyard Architect is a deep design-and-operate tycoon sim: find land on a living world map, design and plant a vineyard on real terroir, then run it as a winery across the vintages — grow, harvest, ferment, age, and sell — and reinvest into more land and more wine. You are the vintner and estate owner, never the drinker. Where to buy, what to plant, when to pick, when to sell, and when to hold a great vintage back for years. Every call is yours. DESIGN ON REAL TERROIR • Buy land across 52 real wine regions: Napa, Bordeaux, Barossa, Mosel, Douro, Barolo, Rioja, Willamette and more. • Draw your blocks on a topographic map. Each one takes its slope, aspect, elevation and soil from exactly where you place it. • Match 46 real grape varieties to the site. The sun-facing shoulder suits a different grape than the frost hollow below it. • Set row orientation, trellis and vine density, then build frost fans, irrigation, drainage, roads, a crush pad and a tasting room. RUN THE VINTAGE • Vines take years to establish and wine ages for years in the cellar, so several vintages are always in flight at once. • Live through each season: bud break, flowering, veraison, harvest. Answer a frost warning, disease pressure, a harvest-week storm, or a stuck fermentation. • Weather is the great risk. The same block makes a different wine every year. BUILD THE EMPIRE • Sell through the tasting room, wine club, and distributors, each a real trade-off between price and reach. • Blend lots at the bench into named cuvées, and grow a following that pays a premium. • Earn critic scores and chase the prestige lists: Wine Spectator Top 100, Decanter, La Liste. • Take loans, acquire rival wineries, and take your estate group public. • Earn 30 Game Center achievements and climb the efficiency leaderboards. • A maturing cellar and a compounding reputation turn patience into an empire. LEARN AS YOU GROW Every number comes with the "why." Tap a term to learn what heat niche, cold hardiness, or bunch rot really mean/ Real winegrowing, made playable. Beautifully native on iPhone and iPad. Vineyard Architect Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks unlimited estates, winery acquisitions, and financing. Yours forever, no subscription. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Vineyard Architect — Full Game | $19.99 | one-time | | Vineyard Architect Founding Player | $5.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.1 — 2026-09-15 Your wine, your label. Name a cuvée, design its label, and see it printed on the bottle. • Design your estate label: 12 layouts, hand-drawn engravings and line-art marks, six palettes, and six typefaces. Every vintage you bottle under that label wears your design in the cellar. • Already named a wine? Tap the paintbrush on its card to give it a proper label. It's free. • Rosé: make a rosé from your red grapes. It sells fast and rescues a weak red year, but it won't age like a red. • Finished wines now show as bottles. Tap one to see it up close. • The calendar shows real years and months instead of "Year 8". • The map's land now varies subtly with each region's climate. Thank you for playing Vineyard Architect. Plant slowly, and build your empire. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-12 Vineyard Architect is now free to download. Play as much as you like, and unlock the full game when you're ready. • Buy land, design your vineyard, grow harvests, and sell your wine. The core game is free to play across two vineyard sites. • Unlock the complete game once to build an unlimited estate: more sites, rival wineries to acquire, and the markets to take your company public. • Launch offer: unlock forever for just $5.99 (one-time and yours to keep forever). We also made it easier to see what the full game offers, right when you're ready, with no interruptions to your game. Thank you for playing Vineyard Architect. Plant slowly, and build your empire. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-09 Your winery buildings are now real places on the land. • The tasting room, crush pad, and barrel hall render as detailed pieces on the topographic map — no more flat markers. • Drag a building to move it, and use the new rotation handle to turn it so it fits your parcel — essential for angling a long barrel hall along the slope. • Each building is sized to its real footprint, so the barrel hall reads as the largest and the tasting room the smallest. Design-surface polish: • You can no longer plant a block on top of a building — the outline turns red so you always know why it won't finish. • Building names are now easy to read in both light and dark mode. • A clearer selection frame shows which building you've picked. Plus a round of fixes to make placing and rotating buildings feel smooth and precise. Thank you for playing Vineyard Architect. Plant slowly, and build your empire. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-08 No release notes. ## More apps by Postmark Digital LLC - [Airline Architect](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/airline-architect/id6790569697) - [Fruition: Accomplish Anything](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fruition-accomplish-anything/id6794896515) - [FC Architect](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fc-architect/id6798026159) All apps by Postmark Digital LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/6790569699 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-16.*