Wine Tourism: Build a Winery Audio Guide From Tech Sheets

In wine tourism, nothing beats a tour led by the people who make the wine. But someone isn't always free, and they don't always speak the visitor's language. A winery audio guide covers those moments: visitors walk through the vineyard, the tanks and the barrels and hear the winery's story in their own language. You already have the raw material: your wine tech sheets. Here are the stops, a sample script and the steps with Fynqcast.

Which stops belong in a winery tour?

Four or five stops are enough if you follow the path of the wine:

1. The vineyard: grape varieties, slope and exposure, the work of the year.
2. Harvest and winemaking: when the grapes are picked and how they're handled.
3. Aging: tanks, barrels and the time it takes.
4. The bottle: bottling, the label, storage.
5. The tasting room: a welcome, and an invitation to ask questions to whoever is there.

Each stop becomes a short audio file. The last one doesn't replace your team; it introduces them.

How do you turn a tech sheet into a story?

A tech sheet is data: variety, soil, elevation, fermentation, months in oak. Read in a row, it's forgotten at once. For listening:

• Pick one or two facts per stop and leave the rest to the printed sheet.
• Turn numbers into pictures: "2,500 liters" means little; "a cask the size of a small car" is something people can see.
• Explain technical words the first time they come up, or skip them.
• Talk about people and gestures: who prunes, who tastes from the barrel, and when.
• No encouragement to drink and no health claims. Families with children may take the tour too.

Example: the aging stop

The winery and the wine are fictional. Here's the tech sheet:

Verzanella Red. Grape: 100% Sangiovese. Hand-picked, late September. Fermented in stainless steel. Aged 12 months in 2,500-liter oak casks, then 6 months in bottle.

And here's the script for that stop:

You're in the barrel room. Feel how cool it is? The temperature here barely changes during the year, and that's exactly what the wine needs. The casks you see are oak, and they're big: each one holds two thousand five hundred liters. Verzanella Red stays here for twelve months, then rests another six in the bottle before it leaves the cellar. In that time the wood works slowly, without covering the Sangiovese. When you're ready, follow the corridor to your left, toward the bottle room.

That's about 85 words, under 40 seconds of listening.

How to do it with Fynqcast

You build the audio guide in FYNQ Studio, included in the FYNQ Studio, Publisher and Enterprise plans.

1. Open the Studio tab and choose the Tourism & Guides category.
2. Start from your sheets. In Your text, use Load PDF, DOCX or TXT to upload a sheet and rewrite it in the editor. Or choose Create with AI: set the type to Food and wine and paste the sheet data into Your information (takes precedence). At the Advanced level, add the stops plus Practical information to read (for example "the stairs down to the barrel room are steep") and What to highlight or avoid. At this level the AI also looks up information on the web and shows you the sources, but your data always comes first. Check the text every time.
3. One production per stop, so you get one file for each point on the route.
4. One or two voices. With Create with AI the text can be written for two voices, say a narrator and the winemaker. You can give the voice an emotion. Approve the text, choose the voices and generate.
5. Download the MP3 (or WAV and M4A) and the SRT subtitles.

For international visitors, choose Your text, tick Translate before reading and paste the approved text: it becomes Italian, German, French and more, among eight available languages. In the translation settings, list your wine and vineyard names as proper names to keep unchanged.

Want the story told in your own voice? You can clone it if you're an adult with an identity document issued by an EU member state, after identity verification and consent. Everyone can clone only their own voice, and every audio with a cloned voice opens with the spoken notice "Voice cloned with AI."

Let visitors know along the route that the voices are AI-generated. The plans are described on the pricing page.

Also worth reading:

• How to Create an Audio Guide From a PDF Brochure
• AI Voice Clone: How to Clone Your Own Voice Safely
• Guest Welcome Message: Template and House Manual Checklist

Want to hear how it sounds? Listen to the examples in the Tutorial.