Navigating SommGeo Tours

Tours are SommGeo’s immersive 3D wine presentations — built for deep study of the regions, producers, classifications, and vintages that matter most. Each Tour walks you frame by frame through a wine region in three dimensions. Click the pins for the real content.

Best on Desktop or Laptop: Tours work on phones and tablets, but the 3D viewer, info panels, and pin content are designed for larger screens. On mobile devices, the interface functions correctly but screen space limits how much you can see at once. For the best experience, use a laptop or desktop and go full screen.

Getting Oriented

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Full Screen

Click the Full Screen button in the lower right corner for the best experience. This expands the Tour to fill your entire display, giving you maximum space for the 3D view, the info panel, and pin content. We strongly recommend full screen for every Tour session.

Info Panel (Upper Left)

The info box in the upper left shows contextual information about the current frame — region overviews, classification details, climate notes, or producer background depending on where the Tour has navigated. This panel updates as you move between frames and when you click pins.

Where the Content Lives

Click the Pins — This Is Where Most of the Information Lives

Every Tour is populated with clickable pins placed on regions, vineyards, and producers across the 3D landscape. These pins are not decoration — they contain the bulk of the Tour’s educational content. Producer profiles, appellation details, vineyard-level data, classification breakdowns, and tasting context all live behind these pins.

When you click a pin, its detailed information loads into the info panel. Some pins link to regions or appellations; others are placed on specific producers. If a frame shows six pins scattered across a hillside, each one holds a different piece of the story. Click every pin on every frame. If you’re moving through the Tour without clicking pins, you’re seeing maybe 20% of what’s there.

Don’t skip the pins. Each Tour contains dozens of clickable markers on regions, vineyards, and producers. The info panel in the upper left updates with detailed content every time you click one. The frame itself sets the geographic scene — the pins deliver the wine knowledge.

Navigating the Tour

Frame Navigator (Lower Left)

The lower left shows the frame controls: a frame list icon, back and forward arrows, and a counter (e.g., “22 / 33”) showing your position in the Tour. Use the arrows to step through frames sequentially, or click the list icon to jump to any frame directly. Each frame flies the camera to a new location and loads the relevant pins and info for that area.

Compass & Camera (Upper Right)

The compass widget in the upper right lets you rotate and tilt the camera in any direction — left, right, up, down, or oblique angles. This is a full 3D environment, so you can look at a vineyard slope from any perspective. If you get disoriented or lose your position, click the Home button next to the compass to snap back to the current frame’s default view.

Mouse & Touch Controls

Left-click and drag to pan across the landscape. Scroll (or touchpad pinch) to zoom in and out. Shift + click and drag to change the direction the camera is looking. Ctrl + click and drag (or middle mouse button) to change the camera angle and rotate the view — essential for examining slope and aspect on vineyard hillsides. On a Mac, use ⌘ Cmd + click and drag instead of Ctrl. And most importantly: click on any pin to open its content in the info panel.

Status Bar (Lower Right)

The lower right displays your current coordinates, a scale bar, the ground altitude where your cursor is pointing, and your camera altitude (the elevation you’re viewing from). The ground altitude is particularly useful — hover over a vineyard to see its elevation, then compare it to a site across the valley. Two numbers, two different things: where you’re looking vs. where you’re looking from.

Recommended workflow: Step through each frame using the forward arrow. On every frame, click each pin to read the full producer, region, or vineyard profile in the info panel. Use the compass to tilt and rotate the view for a better sense of slope and aspect. Then advance to the next frame.

Measurement Tools

Measuring Distance, Height, Slope & Area

The measurement tools are accessible from the lower left toolbar (the ruler icon). You can measure distances between points, vertical height, slope angle, and enclosed area — useful for understanding vineyard dimensions, elevation change across a hillside, or the scale of an appellation.

Click to place each measurement point. For multi-point measurements (like tracing a vineyard boundary), double-click to end the measurement. This is easy to miss — if you keep single-clicking, the tool keeps adding points. A deliberate double-click closes the shape or finalizes the line.

Tour Content & Permissions

Personal Use

You are welcome to use SommGeo Tours for personal study, exam preparation, and non-commercial educational purposes. If you reference SommGeo Tour content in study materials or group settings, please credit sommgeo.com.

Commercial Use

The use of Tour content — including screenshots, pin data, or frame captures — for any commercial purpose is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.

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