Wine & Technology
Wine, through the eyes of a technologist.
Wino Techie sits at the intersection of wine and technology, from AI that forecasts which grapes to plant as the climate shifts, to the data, markets, and systems behind the world's oldest luxury trade. The first deep-dive series traces two thousand years of wine economics.
What I explore
The throughline is simple: point modern tools at the oldest luxury trade and see what they reveal. A few of the threads running through the blog.
AI & Climate · Flagship project
In progressA model that forecasts which grape varieties will thrive in a given region as the climate shifts, helping growers decide what to plant now for the decades ahead.
Write-up coming soonWine Economics
LiveHow wine became money and keeps surviving its own funerals. The first full series, Wine, Money, & Survival, lives below.
See the series →Taste & Chemistry
PlannedWhy dealcoholized beer can taste great while non-alcoholic wine still falls flat, and what the chemistry of aroma, body, and dealcoholization says about closing the gap.
Coming soonThe first series
The blog's first deep-dive: a nine-part history of wine economics, tracing how wine became money, weathered its repeated funerals, and keeps surviving every collapse that should have ended it. Begin at the front door.
Episode 0 · Wine, Money, & Survival
Wine endures, the series front door
Read the overview →About
Wino Techie is written for people who are curious about where wine and technology meet: AI applied to viticulture and a warming climate, the data behind the bottle, the markets that price it, and the systems, old and new, that move value through the world's oldest luxury trade. Wine has been a store of value for two thousand years; the tools we use to understand it are brand new.
A few projects run through the site. The flagship is a model that forecasts which grape varieties will thrive in a region as the climate shifts. There is a deep-dive series on wine economics, tracing how wine became money and kept surviving its own funerals. And there are smaller data and software experiments along the way. Next come more physical projects, like actually measuring how well wine preservers keep an open bottle alive, instead of taking the marketing at its word.
A note on all of it: this is a hobby, not a credential. I am not an expert in wine, climate science, economics, or any of the topics here. I write these pieces to teach myself, then share them for free in case they are useful to someone else. Work in progress is shown in the open, which is why some content carries highlights that track ongoing updates, such as tariffs on wine.