# Vineyard Director — Grow, make & sell fine wine

> Real-time strategy game simulating vineyard management and wine production. (iPhone/iPad app by Sports Stats Limited.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vineyard-director/id6817490072 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sports Stats Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/1481193925)
- Category: Games, Casual, Simulation
- Price: $1.99 (on sale, was $2.99)
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 1 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-02
- Data updated: 2026-11-06
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vineyard-director/id6817490072/reviews.md

## What is Vineyard Director?

A few hectares of old vines. A harvest weeks away. A bank that wants its money back.

Vineyard Director is a real-time strategy game about building a wine estate, from one ripening block and a borrowed press into a house whose best vintage scores 98. The weather decides every year, the fruit waits for no one, and a great wine takes two years to reach the bottle.

PICK YOUR REGION
Ten of the world's great wine regions, each its own game. The Barossa Valley's century-old Shiraz and a March harvest. Napa Valley's sunshine, tourists and fearsome land prices. Marlborough's Sauvignon Blanc and Mendoza's Malbec under the Andes. Chianti's hillsides, Rioja's Gran Reservas and Bordeaux's en primeur. The Douro's terraces, Champagne's chalk and years on the lees, and the Mosel's slate cliffs and ice wine. Every region has its own grapes, climate, land and traits, and a difficulty from one to five pips.

GROW IT
Buy or lease parcels, each with its own soil, slope and warmth, and plant the variety that suits it. Prune, spray, work the canopy and thin the crop for quality. Watch for late frosts, hail, heatwaves and mildew, and put frost fans over the pockets where cold air pools.

PICK IT
The harvest is the moment of the year. Time slows while fruit is ripe. Read the five-day forecast, hire picking crews and queue each parcel at its peak. Pick too early and the wine is thin; wait for rain and the rot sets in.

MAKE IT
Crush, ferment, and choose steel, used oak or new French oak. The cellar's estimate of every wine narrows as it ages, until The Cellar Report scores it on bottling day. Rent space from the custom-crush winery down the road, then build your own crush pad, tanks, barrel cellar and bottling line. When the tanks fill up, fruit waits in the bins and loses quality.

SELL IT
Open a tasting room and set your own cellar-door price. Sign distributors, and deliver every month or lose them. Grow a wine club, open guest houses and a restaurant, and ship to importers in five countries. The wine market moves through gluts and booms; the trade will take anything, but cheaply.

BUILD A NAME
Every score moves your reputation, and reputation moves every price. Win medals at the spring show, convert to organic and then biodynamic, and climb from Garage Winery to Boutique Estate, Established Winery, Renowned House and Icon Estate.

HANDLE THE TROUBLE
Frost nights, wildfire smoke, wild boar, stuck fermentations, corked bottles, critics in the cellar, film crews and weddings. Every event is a decision with a real cost.

WHAT YOU GET
- Real-time play with pause, 1x, 2x and 4x speeds
- Ten regions, each with its own map, climate, grapes and traits, and four difficulty settings
- Five scenarios with goals, deadlines and up to three stars each
- Nineteen grape varieties, each with its own climate, ripening and taste for oak
- A living estate map: vines that change colour through the seasons, pickers in the rows, weather overhead
- Season and vintage reports, and five managers to take routine work off your hands
- Several estates at once, each its own save

No offline progress, no timers, no ads, no in-app purchases, no account. The estate only runs while you're there.

## Key features

- Real-time strategy with pause
- Ten distinct wine regions
- Vineyard management and cultivation
- Wine production and aging
- Sales and distribution
- Reputation building
- Event-driven challenges

## Chart rankings

- #177 in Top Paid · Casual (US App Store)

## Is Vineyard Director safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Vineyard Director.

## Is Vineyard Director legit?

Vineyard Director appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Vineyard Director is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (1 of 1)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vineyard-director/id6817490072/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Best mobile sims of 2026

*2026-10-18*

I have thoroughly enjoyed Oil, Airport, and now Vineyard Director. They are very replayable thanks to the staff automation. They just feel so premium. I have encountered a couple bugs in this one and have emailed the devs, although with enough luck they’re not exactly game breaking. It’s hard to believe these games were released only two weeks between. Each one is a major improvement upon the other and the setting is totally fresh each time. I especially love how Vineyard has the “To Do” list. Amazing work from the devs. I have never left a review before for a mobile game.

## Frequently asked questions about Vineyard Director

### What is Vineyard Director?

Vineyard Director is a real-time strategy game where you build and manage a wine estate. You'll handle everything from growing grapes to selling your finest vintages.

### How much does Vineyard Director cost?

Vineyard Director is a paid app, priced at $2.99. This one-time purchase grants you full access to the game.

### What regions are available in Vineyard Director?

The game features ten of the world's great wine regions, including Barossa Valley, Napa Valley, Marlborough, Mendoza, Chianti, Rioja, Bordeaux, Douro, Champagne, and Mosel.

### Does Vineyard Director have ads?

No, Vineyard Director does not contain advertisements. As a paid application, it offers an uninterrupted gaming experience.

### What kind of challenges can I expect in Vineyard Director?

You will face realistic challenges such as frost nights, wildfire smoke, wild boar, stuck fermentations, and critic reviews, each requiring strategic decisions.

### How does the game simulate wine aging?

The game simulates wine aging with a cellar estimate that narrows over time, culminating in a score from The Cellar Report on bottling day. Different oak types also influence the final taste.

### What devices is Vineyard Director available on?

Currently, Vineyard Director is supported on iPhone devices. Future platform expansions may be considered based on player interest.

### How often is Vineyard Director updated?

The latest version, 1.0.1, was released on October 20, 2026, indicating recent development activity. Updates typically address game balance and new content.

## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-20

Fixes for two bugs that could leave an estate stuck. Saves affected by either one load and play normally again.
- An event that arrived while the estate was overdrawn couldn't be answered, and the game stayed paused on it. Choices that cost nothing are now always open.
- Releasing a new wine while a second one was waiting crashed the game. Both now go through one after the other.

Also fixed:
- Scenario deadlines counted from 1 January rather than from the day the estate was founded. Scenarios in progress now get the time they should have had.
- A vintage whose last grapes were still waiting for the crusher when the year turned never got its vintage report.
- A parcel whose remaining crop was lost to weather or an event now finishes picking straight away.
- "Sell wine to bottle" no longer sells a case when there's already enough cash.
- The notice that the picking crews have been paid off now appears after every harvest, not only when you'd set the crews by hand.
- "An 88-point wine", not "a 88-point wine", and other small wording fixes.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in with bug reports.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-02

No release notes.

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