v1.2.1 — The Rank Becomes the Price

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 auction. Wine shipped unnamed is unchanged. The committee only reads wines that carry a name.
• The NPC estates are paid the same — Clos Valois collects the Grand Cru multiplier too. The register does not take sides.
• En primeur trades on the estate, not the bottle — a cask sold before bottling carries no name yet, so the price anchors to your estate's best rank instead of that one wine's. That is how Bordeaux prices its futures.
• A "Classement" row in "Why this price" — open any wine and see exactly how much of its price the rank is carrying.

Mention d'Espoir — the committee calls the promising names

• The ceremony gains a section for promise — once the ranked board has been read out, the committee calls the unclassified estates that put up a qualifying vintage. No rank, no bonus. This is not a rank. It means you are being watched.
• The letter now spells the work out — "Cru Bourgeois: 1 of 2 distinct years secured. The bottleneck is years: 1 short of the requirement." What you are missing before the next judgment, and how much of it, in numbers.
• The assignment lives on your dashboard — a Classement assignment card counts your qualifying vintage stamps. A vintage is stamped the moment the bottled wine comes back reviewed, so the three years between judgments turn into a stamp collection.
• A Mention d'Espoir column in the Gazette — every edition prints the noted names and how far each of them has come. Read the paper to find out whether the domaine down the road is stamping faster than you.

Fixed

• Classement reviews no longer stop after 2042. They continue every 3 years, including 2045 and 2048. Existing saves keep their ranks and history and resume at the next scheduled review.
• One phrase, two meanings — the quality label on a wine card was borrowing the classement rank names, so a 94-point wine read "Premier Cru" while the brand behind it sat at Cru Bourgeois. Quality has its own words now: Exceptional and Outstanding at the top of the scale.
• The price card did not add up — multiply every factor the card showed and you still landed beside the final price. That residual is closed at the source. The rows you can see are the rows that were multiplied.

Happy winemaking. The committee reads nothing but the dossier — make a wine worth putting your name on.

— hAi Corp