Viticulture Essential edition

This is an archetypal worker placement game on the theme of wine-making, though I came to it a bit late (the original game was published in 2013). Having planted your vines, you may harvest grapes, make wine and sell wine (for victory points) each year. The problem is that you don't have enough workers to do all of this in a single year. Luckily, wine improves with age...

Then there are all the useful buildings that will improve things: if you can spare the workers to construct them. Plus, there are other ways of scoring points, so there are always decisions to be made and options to consider. Even choosing turn order is a little game in its own right.

I've always played Viticulture with the Tuscany expansion. This extends the game so that all four seasons of the year have spaces on the board and there are even more options. The new (2026) Bordeaux expansion also has all four seasons and adds some different options. The Moor Visitors expansion provides some different 'Visitor' cards.

For 1-6 players, aged 13+, playing time 90 minutes

Viticulture was designed by Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone and is published by Stonemaier

Find out more:
    Viticulture at BoardGameGeek
    Pevans's first impressions of Viticulture