Powering Claude by Anthropic · Native MCP

We mapped what's under every vineyard.

The geology, slope, elevation, and classification of 4,925 vineyard sites across Burgundy, Champagne, the Northern Rhône, and Bordeaux — structured, scored, and queryable via API. The first terroir intelligence platform ever built. Nothing else like it exists.

4,925
Vineyard sites scored
42,068
Geological records
873
Appellations mapped
2.1M+
Terrain records processed
The insight

The rock under a Grand Cru doesn't stop at the fence.

A Premier Cru vineyard in Gevrey-Chambertin called Les Champeaux physically borders the Grand Cru Chambertin. Zero metres of separation. Same limestone. Same slope. Same elevation band. The geology is continuous.

The price difference? 10×.

This pattern repeats across every wine region we've mapped. The API surfaces every gap — spatial proximity, geological continuity, topographic alignment, producer depth. The dataset that lets you build products the wine world has never seen.

GET /v1/appellations/gevrey-chambertin?climat=les-champeaux
{
  "climat": "Les Champeaux",
  "classification": "premier_cru",
  "nearby_grand_crus": [{
    "name": "Chambertin",
    "distance_metres": 0
  }],
  "geological_match": true,
  "elevation_metres": 301.5,
  "slope_degrees": 6.6
}

This vineyard borders Chambertin at 0 metres on identical geology. Classified Premier Cru. The API knows this for every plot in Burgundy.

What the data reveals

Findings that challenge everything you thought you knew.

We didn't build this data to confirm what the wine world already believes. We built it to test it. Here's what we found.

Burgundy
0m

Multiple Premier Crus physically border Grand Cru vineyards on continuous geology.

No gap. No geological break. The same formation runs under both classifications. The boundary is legal, not geological. The price ratio between them can exceed 10 to 1.

Source: Vintelligence spatial analysis
Champagne

Grower Champagnes from Grand Cru villages, on the same chalk the famous houses source from.

The big houses source fruit from Grand Cru villages and add blending, ageing, and brand. The growers farm the same classified ground. The price difference between them is the brand, not the terroir.

Source: Vintelligence terroir scoring
Cross-region
300M

Years separating the youngest and oldest formations — scored by the same engine.

Cretaceous chalk in Champagne. Jurassic limestone in Burgundy. Palaeozoic granite in the Rhône. Formations separated by hundreds of millions of years of geological history, processed and scored by a single intelligence system.

Source: Vintelligence platform
Elevation analysis

Grand Crus occupy a narrow elevation band. Some village wines share it.

In Gevrey-Chambertin, the Grand Crus sit between 260m and 300m on the slope. Several Premier Crus and even village-level vineyards occupy the same band — same altitude, same exposure, dramatically different classification and price.

This is the kind of pattern that's invisible on a wine list but obvious in the data.

Source: Vintelligence topographic profiles
Gevrey-Chambertin · Elevation profile
Chambertin
Grand Cru
286m
Latricières
Grand Cru
296m
Les Champeaux
Premier Cru
302m
Clos St-Jacques
Premier Cru
295m
Village plot
Village
278m

These are the patterns that are invisible on a wine list, obvious in the data, and now queryable via API.

The platform

Four regions. One engine.

Proven across formations separated by hundreds of millions of years. The engine processes any terroir. That's why it scales.

Jurassic · 160 million years

Burgundata

Limestone · Marl · Clay
Every vineyard in Burgundy mapped at plot level. Scored for proximity, geological continuity, slope, elevation, and aspect. Producer profiles with generational depth and mentor lineages.
3,172 plots
36,075 geo records
burgundata.com →
Cretaceous · 70 million years

Champagnedata

Belemnite chalk · Micraster chalk
Every village in Champagne scored by its chalk geology. House-vs-grower relationships mapped at village level — revealing where the famous names source their fruit and who else farms the same ground.
336 villages
2,405 chalk records
champagnedata.com →
Palaeozoic · 300+ million years

Rhônedata

Granite · Mica-schist · Gneiss
The Northern Rhône at lieu-dit level. Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage, Cornas and beyond — some of the oldest vine-growing formations in France.
1,344 lieux-dits
3,200 geo records
rhonedata.com →
Quaternary · 2.6 million years

Bordeauxdata

Gravel terraces · Iron clay · Limestone
Seven Bordeaux appellations scored at terroir zone level. Left Bank gravel terrace hierarchy from Gironde to plateau. Right Bank iron-enriched clay beneath Pomerol and Oligocene limestone beneath Saint-Émilion. The spatial analysis the 1855 classification never ran.
73 terroir zones
7 appellations
bordeauxdata.com →

The next region is ready when the data is.

The engine has been proven across four fundamentally different terroir types. Extending it to new regions is an operational question, not a technical one.

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The API

Four regions. Same schema. Same depth.

One integration covers every region. Consistent structure, consistent quality. New regions inherit the same schema automatically.

GET Burgundy
{
  "climat": "Les Champeaux",
  "classification": "premier_cru",
  "gc_distance_m": 0,
  "geological_match": true,
  "elevation_m": 301.5,
  "slope_deg": 6.6
}
GET Champagne
{
  "village": "Ambonnay",
  "classification": "grand_cru",
  "echelle": 100,
  "cote": "Montagne de Reims",
  "terroir_score": 8.7
}
GET Rhône
{
  "lieu_dit": "Les Bessards",
  "appellation": "Hermitage",
  "elevation_m": 265,
  "aspect": "south",
  "slope_deg": 22.4
}
GET Bordeaux
{
  "terroir_zone": "Pauillac-North",
  "appellation": "Pauillac",
  "geology": "High terrace gravel",
  "terroir_score": 8.7
}
Use cases

What you can build that nobody else can.

These features require spatial terroir data. Until now, that data didn't exist in structured form. Now it's an API call.

Product enrichment

Product pages with terroir depth no competitor can match.

Your wine e-commerce shows appellation, vintage, price. With one API call, add the geology, the Grand Cru proximity, the slope profile. Context that gives every bottle a story — and gives your customer a reason to buy it.

Your product page, enriched
Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Les Champeaux 2020
This vineyard borders Chambertin Grand Cru at 0 metres on continuous geology. Elevation: 301m. Slope: 6.6°. Classification: Premier Cru at a fraction of adjacent Grand Cru pricing.
← 1 API call
Recommendations

Recommend by geology, not by "people also bought."

Most wine recommendations use collaborative filtering. With Vintelligence, recommend by terroir: continuous geology, shared slope band, the same conditions that produce the wine someone already loves — at a different price point.

Terroir-based recommendation
"You liked this Gevrey Premier Cru?"
Here are 3 wines on the same formation at half the price — from the same elevation band, the same aspect, the same geological signature.
← terroir similarity query
AI agents

Give your LLM a sommelier's knowledge of the land.

Native MCP integration means any AI assistant can query 4,852 vineyard sites with structured terroir data. When a user asks for a recommendation, your AI responds with geological evidence — not pattern-matched guesswork. Already powering Claude by Anthropic.

MCP-powered AI response
User: "Best Burgundy under $100?"
AI queries terroir scoring across 3,172 plots, returns three wines sitting on Grand Cru geology at village-level prices — with the spatial evidence for each.
← MCP tool call → structured terroir response
Live in production

See it working — right now.

Unhyped is an AI sommelier built entirely on Vintelligence, matching thousands of Singapore wine listings against the terroir database in real-time.

unhypedwine.com →
Integration

API key to terroir data in under a minute.

1

Get a key.

Free tier: 25 calls/day across all regions. No credit card. No approval process. No time limit. You'll have a working key in thirty seconds.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vintelligence.dev/v1/appellations/gevrey-chambertin
2

Query any region.

REST endpoints for appellations, geology, producers, and spatial proximity. One key covers every region. Typed responses, consistent schema.

Endpoints: /appellations · /geology · /producers · /search · /similar
3

Ship.

MCP-native for AI assistants. Standard REST for everything else. Full documentation with working examples for every endpoint.

Already integrated: Claude by Anthropic via MCP
Pricing

One key. All regions. Always.

Every tier includes every region. Never charged separately. New regions added to your existing key at no extra cost.

Free
$0
25 calls / day
  • All regions included
  • Appellation directory
  • Village summaries
  • Classification data
  • Basic geology
No credit card. No time limit. The free tier never expires.
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Enterprise
Custom
For teams at 50,000+ queries/month
  • Everything in Developer
  • Batch processing
  • Custom scoring models
  • White-label rights
  • Dedicated support
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