How to Make Wine
Craft or obtain a Keg. The Keg recipe is unlocked when you get to Farming level 8, and requires 30 Wood, 1 Copper Bar, 1 Iron Bar, and 1 Oak Resin. However, you can also get Kegs from a few other sources: Bundles: If you're playing with standard Community Center bundles, completing the Artisan's Bundle will get you a Keg. If you're playing with remixed bundles, you'll get the Keg from finishing the Brewer's Bundle. Prize Machine: There is a 50% chance of getting 4 Kegs as the 19th reward from the Prize Machine.
Place the Keg. Kegs can be placed just about anywhere, both on your farm and outside of it. You can put them in buildings or on the ground outside. However, if an NPC walks through your Keg, it will be destroyed. It's best to put them inside or place them somewhere where NPCs don't go. We go over the best spots to place Kegs further down in this article.
Place one fruit inside the Keg. One fruit will create one bottle of Wine. You can use any fruit to create Wine, even inedible fruit. To learn which fruit is the best for wine, jump ahead to this section. The fruit's quality doesn't affect the quality of the Wine once it's done brewing. Wine is always normal quality, but normal quality Wine is always going to be more profitable than any quality fruit (even iridium quality).
Wait for 7 days. It takes 7 in-game days for the Wine to finish brewing. Once the Wine is done, you must collect it from the Keg before brewing something else.
Age the Wine in a Cask (optional). With Casks, you can age the Wine to improve its quality and value. Simply place the Wine in the Cask and allow it to age. To take Wine from a Cask before it has reached iridium quality, hit the Cask with an Axe, Hoe, or Pickaxe. The Cask recipe is obtained by getting the final Farmhouse upgrade. It takes 20 Wood and 1 Hardwood to make a Cask.. Casks must be placed in the cellar (which is added to the Farmhouse with the final upgrade) to age Wine. The cellar can hold 33 Casks. It takes 14 in-game days to age the Wine to silver quality, 28 in-game days to age the Wine to gold quality, and 56 in-game days to age the Wine to iridium quality. Many players fill their Casks with as much Wine as possible, then sell the surplus until the Casks are done aging. To maximize profits, place the highest-value Wine you have in your Casks (such as Starfruit, Ancient Fruit, Pineapple, or Melon Wine).
Best Spaces to Place Kegs
Indoors The best indoor spaces for Kegs are the Shed, Big Shed, Barn, Deluxe Barn, and an unclaimed Cabin. Shed: Fits 67 Kegs on 21 tiles of land Big Shed: Fits 137 Kegs on 21 tiles of land Barn: Fits 90 Kegs on 28 tiles of land The Barn is much cheaper than upgrading the Shed to a Big Shed. Deluxe Barn: Fits 136 Kegs on 28 tiles of land The final Deluxe Barn upgrade is more expensive than upgrading a Shed to a Big Shed. Cabin: Fits 42 Kegs on 15 tiles of land Upgraded Cabin: Fits 113 Kegs on 15 tiles of land Two Upgrade Cabin: Fits 352 Kegs on 15 tiles of land Two Upgrade and Remodeled Cabin: Fits 586 Kegs on 15 tiles of land The Cabin upgrades will cost the most in money and resources once you've done them all, but you can fit the most amount of Kegs inside of it.
Outdoors The best outdoor spaces for Kegs are the Quarry, the Tunnel, and the Road. These spaces allow for many Kegs to be placed and are out of the paths of any NPCs who could destroy them otherwise. Quarry: Fits 374 Kegs The Tunnel: Fits 131 Kegs The Road: Fits 90 Kegs
Best Fruit for Wine
Starfruit is objectively the best fruit for Wine. As the value of Wine depends on the base price of the fruit, Starfruit yields the best profits because it's the highest-valued fruit in the game. A normal-quality bottle of Starfruit Wine yields 2,250 gold (3,150 gold with the Artisan profession). Stockpile as many Starfruit Seeds as you can to grow in the Greenhouse. This will ensure you have a steady stream of Starfruit when it's not Summer so you can make Starfruit Wine year-round. However, since Starfruit Seeds can only be reliably purchased at the Oasis, it isn't the best choice for players who haven't gotten that far in the game yet.
The best fruit for players in their first year varies by season. While you can't start making Wine right away, you can start stockpiling fruit to turn into Wine once you unlock Kegs. As such, the best fruit changes depending on what season you're in: Spring: Strawberries will yield a normal-quality Wine worth 360 gold. They grow quickly and one plant yields multiple harvests. Summer: Melons will yield a normal-quality Wine worth 750 gold. They take a bit longer to grow, but the seeds are readily available to new players. You should also stockpile Melon seeds during Summer to use in the Greenhouse before you get access to the Oasis for Starfruit seeds. Fall: Wild Plums will yield a normal-quality Wine worth 240 gold. This is a lower yield than some other Fall fruits, but Wild Plums can be foraged for free. Pomegranates and Apples have a higher value (420 gold and 300 gold, respectively) but saplings are expensive (between 3,000 and 7,000 gold each depending on which one you buy and from which store), take a long time to mature, and take up 9 tiles, which may not be feasible for a first year player. Winter: Crystal Fruit will yield a normal-quality wine worth 450 gold. Like Wild Plums, Crystal Fruit are foraged, so the yield from Crystal Fruit wine is 100% profit. Unlike Fall, though, you can't grow anything in Winter, so foraged fruit is your best bet for Wine. However, if you happen to have the Greenhouse unlocked by Winter, you should use that to grow fruit (ideally Melons) to make Wine out of.
Wine Values
Wine values depend on a number of factors. These factors are the value of the base fruit (at normal quality), if the Wine is aged or not (which increases the Wine's quality), and if you have the Artisan profession or not. You can calculate a Wine's value with the following expression: 3 x [base fruit price] x [quality modifier] x [Artisan profession modifier] The base fruit price is the price of the fruit at normal quality, and doesn't include the Tiller profession value increase. The quality modifier is 1 for normal quality, 1.25 for silver quality, 1.5 for gold quality, and 2 for iridium quality. The Artisan profession modifier is 1.4, because it increases the value of your artisan goods by 40%.
Other Wine-Making Tips
Choose the Fruit Bats for the Farm Cave. If you know you want to focus on making Wine in this run of Stardew Valley, picking the Fruit Bats is the better choice for the Farm Cave. The cave will produce fruit slower than it would mushrooms, but the gold from Wine you make from cave fruit will be 100% profit since the fruits were free.
Stockpile seeds to use in the Greenhouse. The Greenhouse allows you to grow any crop at any time of the year. Since three of the highest-valued fruits can only be grown in Summer (Starfruit, Pineapple, and Melon), using the Greenhouse will allow you to create high-value Wine all year round.
Get the Artisan profession. The Artisan profession is a level 10 Farming Profession that increases the value of artisan goods you produce. If you're not level 10 in Farming yet, make sure to select the Tiller profession at level 5 Farming. If you pick Rancher, you won't have the option to select Artisan when you reach level 10.
Wine Uses
Bundles There are three bundles that you can use Wine to complete: Enchanter's Bundle in the Community Center (required) The Missing Bundle in the abandoned JojaMart (optional, silver or better quality needed) Brewer's Bundle in the remixed Community Center (optional)
Quests A Blobfish may request one Wine (any type) in a Fish Pond Quest to upgrade the pond's capacity from 5 to 7.
Gifting Most villagers like Wine, so it's a safe gift option for most of them. Harvey and Leah love Wine, so prioritize giving Wine as a gift to these two villagers. However, Jas, Leo, Penny, Sebastian, and Vincent all hate Wine, so you should avoid giving it to these villagers as a gift.
Tailoring Wine can be used in the Sewing Machine spool to create the Black Leather Jacket. It can also be used as purple dye in the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house.
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