Frequently Asked Questions

Saturnalia digital maps quench your thirst for knowledge and let you to discover the vineyards producing your favourite wines from every angle, gather information related to the qualitative trends and, when available, also to prices. The 3D Wine Explorer currently covers Bordeaux, Burgundy, Barolo, Barbaresco, Bolgheri, Brunello di Montalcino and Rhone. However, stay tuned as we are always adding maps of new areas.

It’s a dynamic satellite map collecting some of the Saturnalia indexes which are made available for each wine through a quick and intuitive interface: the vegetative pattern of the selected vintage is displayed through 5 colours showing different behaviours. In this way, you can gather an immediate understanding of the evolution of a vintage.

Saturnalia scores leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to obtain a rating based on vineyard position, weather data and on all trends available through satellites. The whole process does not involve any tasting.  The vines vegetative response trends are recorded throughout the whole year and compared to the previous vintages, and once compared to previous vintages, are combined with weather and location data to generate a score in hundreds. As we rely on objective andata and AI-driven algorithms, our scores do not express any personal opinion or preference.

It’s the elaboration of the data of the growing season for a single vine area and for the wine originating from it. The data, derived from Saturnalia proprietary indexes, is displayed through a pie chart showing the distribution of 5 classes. In this way, you can gather at a glance the qualitative evolution of the selected vintage, including the percentage distribution of the single classes.

Bordeaux is the quintessence of fine wines and we were happy to dedicate a great chunk of our work to monitoring and elaborating data derived from this exceptional territory. For Bordeaux we can provide soon after the harvest - in November - our Vintage Score which evaluates and predicts 6 months in advance the grape quality of the wines to be presented at the En Primeur campaign in April of the following year.

It's unique and precious information that cannot be missed by anyone who wants to know all about the qualitative performance of the single Crus and the prediction of their financial value. In addition, our Monthly Price trend service will help you in understanding how vintages on the market will change in price. Discover more about our Bordeaux focus in our specific section. 

Exclusively for the Bordeaux area, we offer a unique comparison tool for the top 100 wines: with the Monthly Price Trends you gather predictions for the current month of the expected value trend for the vintages already available on the market.

The ‘compare your wines’ tool makes possibile what was once impossible: to compare wines financial value and qualitative trends both vertically and horizontally. That means that you can either choose to discover how a particular wine changes from vintage to vintage, or see how different wines belonging to different appellations behave. It’s a unique tool for all those who would like to take advantage of an in-depth view on wines value, especially when compared with previously-released vintages.

It's the best way to monitor your collection, track market fluctuations and plan new purchases.