So it seems that in 2401, as per the opening episode of Season 2 of Star Trek Picard, his wine Chateau Picard, Grand Vin de Bordeaux (apparently no reclassification) is picked by transporting the clusters into moving pickers, and somehow it gets vinified and bottled instantaneously after the label gets designed on-the-fly.
(This is theoretical wine so I thought it’s wine-related but mods feel free to move it to whatever forum is the correct one.)
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Wait, why are they still growing actual grapes if they have a replicator machine that can make any wine you want?
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Because the replicator can’t make the Chateau Picard 2401 before it’s been vinified? ![[scratch.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/4/42a16863a8714da3c1604419e3eb9206bb87aa50.gif "scratch"){kind=small}
Either way, I just went broke buying 3Ls on futures. It’s a birth-year wine so I had to splurge, but damn that’s a lot of great-great-great-great-yougetthepicture-grandchildren to buy for! ![[cheers.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/0/0ff9bfcdb0964982cd3240b6159868fbdf215b1a.gif "cheers"){kind=small}
Is 2401 the vintage of the millennium?
Considering they’ve had climate control devices since at least that year when they went berserk because the probe couldn’t find humpback whales, I’d say it depends on your preferred style and if they calibrated the year to be cool or warm. 
Am I the only one upset that they made such beautiful and realistic OWCs for this “Grand Cru Classé” but it doesn’t have a specific commune/AOC? Where would Picard buy? Pauillac seems like the natural choice, but J-L may be more of a Margaux man IMO…
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They filmed this at Sunstone in Santa Ynez . . .
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From what I gathered, it was his father who bought.
Incredibly, there’s a current Chateau Picard in Saint-Estèphe, and the owner, Mähler-Besse, is making a wine that Wine Enthusiast once described as “hard to like” instead of making a deal with CBS/Paramount, making a more decent wine, and milking the Trekkie money which would likely follow.
However, WSP has this picture of a label for it (the second in a group of five) that looks nothing like the other ugly four, and looks suspiciously like the label from the series, especially with a 2386 vintage.
It’s the vintage of the Millennium Falcon
Star Trek v Star Wars debates are Asylum only!
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Already four separate entries in Cellar Tracker.
Hahaha seriously?
Have they solved the cork vs screwcap issue yet?
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never seen the wine but couldn’t resist the merch
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Todd, maybe consider creating a Nerd Asylum forum for this sort of stuff?
Wine Berserkers is by definition a Nerd Asylum.
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I think it’s actually borderline Politics forum.
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The truth. I don’t think we have much high ground over other nerd groups.
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If we didn’t spend so much money on wine we could buy the high ground.
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Good point.
On the other hand, (most of) the wine discussed here is real. 
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