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Viticulture Essential Edition

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Published
2015
Reach
Widely known
Players
1–6
Play time
45–90 min
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How it plays

Build and run a vineyard, aiming to earn the most victory points by planting vines, producing wine, and filling orders. Each year, choose wake-up order, then place workers on limited summer and winter action spaces to gain cards, build structures, harvest grapes, make wine, and sell it. When anyone reaches 20 points, finish the year; the highest score wins.

Main mechanics

  • Trading & negotiation
  • Hand management
  • Auction & bidding
  • Worker placement
  • Trading & negotiation: Deals between players move the game forward.
  • Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
  • Auction & bidding: Value is set by what players are willing to pay.
  • Worker placement: You claim limited action spots before anyone else does.
Full publisher description

In Viticulture, the players find themselves in the roles of people in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany who have inherited meagre vineyards. They have a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, and three workers. They each have a dream of being the first to call their winery a true success. The players are in the position of determining how they want to allocate their workers throughout the year. Every season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There's competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to get to the job has an advantage over subsequent workers. Fortunately for the vineyard owners, people love to visit wineries, and it just so happens that many of those visitors are willing to help out around the vineyard when they visit as long as you assign a worker to take care of them. Their visits (in the form of cards) are brief but can be very helpful. Using those workers and visitors, the vineyard owners can expand their vineyards by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders, working towards the goal of running the most successful winery in Tuscany. Viticulture Essential Edition includes the base game of Viticulture and a few of the most popular modules from the original Tuscany expansion, including Mamas Papas, Fields (previously known as Properties), expanded and revised Visitors, and Automa cards for a solo variant, along with a few minor rule changes.

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