The place has a taste.
Two winemakers, the same grape, a hundred kilometres apart – and two entirely different wines. The difference lies underfoot and overhead: in the soil and in the weather of the vintage.
This page explains what sits behind the two cards you find on every product in the app – and how to read them.
A soil stores water or drains it, holds heat or cools. That decides how fast a fruit ripens – and how much acidity it keeps.
Barren soils force roots to go deep. Less yield, denser aromas – the reason stony sites often deliver the most concentrated products.
The soil is the constant, the weather the variable. Only together do they explain why the 2018 tastes different from the 2021 off the same site.
What lies beneath the vineyard
Pick a soil – you'll see how it behaves and how to recognise it in the glass.
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44 soils Delicacies knows
Every product in the app is matched to exactly one of these soils – with one line explaining what it means in the glass.
All soil and weather imagery on this page is AI-generated.
23 weather years, 23 characters
Hours of sunshine, rainfall, late frost, heat days: Delicacies stores the weather data of the vintage – and translates it into taste.
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Same site, three vintages
Riesling, Mosel, slate soil. Only the weather differs – pick a year:
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Two cards, zero research
You don't have to look anything up. Scan the label – soil type and vintage weather sit as their own cards on the product page, in plain language instead of jargon.