Your Interactive Passport to the World of Wine

Built for Explorers, Designed for Educators

The Questions That Started This Journey

I kept hearing brilliant wine educators mention similar challenges in conversations:

As a designer, I got curious: What would need to be true for technology to actually enhance wine education instead of complicating it?

So I started experimenting. And asking more questions.

Questions Wine Educators Are Helping Me Investigate

And how I think we can work on them

How Might We Show Wine Regions More Clearly?

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  • Precise boundaries that students can actually see
  • Multiple view options for different teaching moments
  • Visual clarity that supports understanding, not confusion

How Might We Make Geography Support Wine Learning?

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  • Opacity control for different lesson phases
  • Terrain visualization that connects to terroir concepts
  • Quick regional comparison capabilities

How Might We Work With Modern Student Devices?

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  • Seamless experience across tablets, phones, computers
  • No complex installations or steep learning curves
  • Integration with existing teaching workflows

How Might We Respect Teaching Expertise?

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  • Tools that adapt to different teaching styles
  • Enhancement of existing methods, not replacement
  • Educator control over how and when to use features

How Might We Make Complex Information Digestible?

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  • Layered information that reveals depth progressively
  • Visual connections between climate, soil, and wine character
  • Simplified complexity without losing accuracy

The Platform: Terroirs

Through conversations with wine educators, we've built an interactive platform that enhances rather than replaces traditional teaching methods.

πŸ—ΊοΈ Interactive regional boundaries with opacity control
πŸ“± Multi-device compatibility for modern classrooms
🌍 23 countries with major wine designations

This platform represents my commitment to building something that feels like a natural extension of great teaching.

The question I keep asking: How can we make this even better for educators and students?

What This Is and What It Isn't

What Terroirs Is:

  • An experiment in enhancing wine education through geographic exploration
  • A tool designed to extend teaching expertise, not replace it
  • A platform that adapts to how educators actually work
  • A starting point for better wine education technology

What Terroirs Isn't:

  • A complete wine education curriculum
  • A replacement for educator expertise
  • A one-size-fits-all solution
  • The final word on wine education technology

What We Need: More educators willing to experiment and share honest feedback about what actually helps vs. what sounds good in theory.

Built for Explorers, Designed for Educators

Explorer

$47 /year

For personal wine discovery and self-directed learning

  • 7 day free trial of the platform
  • Full access to 23 countries and their wine regions
  • Individual exploration at your own pace

Educator

$147 /year

For wine educators enhancing their teaching

  • 7 day free trial of the platform
  • Everything in Explorer tier PLUS:
  • Bookmark regions and tag them for study, reference or comparison
  • Presentation Mode to assign slides to interactive globe
  • Comparison Mode to explore 2 regions side-by-side
  • Direct input on educational feature development