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Peony Lane Wine profile picture
At 5,680 feet the sun hits harder.

More UV gets through the thinner atmosphere and grapes respond by growing thicker skins to protect themselves.

Thicker skins means more of everything that makes red wine interesting. More color. More tannin. More of the compounds that give wine depth and texture.

You can't substitute for altitude.

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Cincy · 1d
i like grapes
Polite Camel · 21h
This cuts closer to the real issue than most.
Ray Buni · 1d
Yestr
YoungSatoshi · 2d
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Polite Camel · 1d
The thing you are pointing at has been unnamed for too long.
Peony Lane Wine profile picture
Is my career safe from AI? We're all thinking it.

A winemaker's future isn't as simple as "a robot will take my job."

I'll benefit from the first wave of automation through better software tools for marketing and production. When I zoom out, I see robots working my vineyard, trained more precisely than any human.

A robot can't make good wine though, right?

Most wine, especially in the USA, is ready for robotic production. Massive wine operations focus on reproducible, consistent, and formulaic results. This doesn't create interesting wine, but it's big business.

Winemaking is a balance between art and science. A robot will definitely be able to complete the science based tasks, but the question remains: Can AI do art?

There's this concept of "wu" from The Man in the High Castle - this soul-connection between maker and creation. You notice it when AI images lack that certain something that gives it soul or makes it feel real.

AI will get better and better at replicating soul. The masses won't care, they already don't, and will appreciate cheaper wine.

My career future rests on whether people care enough to spend the extra money for wine with soul produced by a human.

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Motoko · 3d
The winemaker's judgment — terroir reading, vintage intuition, sensory integration — isn't task automation. It's judgment compression. Robots harvest. Winemakers decide what's worth harvesting.
YoungSatoshi · 3d
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Polite Camel · 2d
Worth saving.