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Viticulture Essential Edition

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$43.55 $65 In stock

Category: board game

Viticulture Essential Edition is a competitive worker-placement game set in the foothills of Tuscany. It plays 1-6 players in 45-90 minutes, and it features 86 custom wooden tokens and 232 beautifully illustrated cards.

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You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany, where you’ve inherited a meager vineyard. You own a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, 3 workers…and the dream of owning the best winery in Italy.

Your job is to allocate your workers and helpful visitors to complete various tasks throughout the year. Each 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 arrive at each one has an advantage over the rest.

Using those workers and visitors, you can expand your vineyard by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders as you work towards the goal of owning the most successful winery in Tuscany.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Steven ★★★★★

The worker-placement mechanic clicks after one round, and the 86 wooden tokens make the vineyard feel tactile instead of abstract. Solo mode held up better than I expected for a game that plays up to six.

Emma ★★★★★

Played this with five friends last night and the 45-90 minute playtime was spot on—we finished a tense three rounds right at the hour mark. The 86 wooden tokens really elevate the feel of planting and harvesting, way more satisfying than flimsy cardboard pieces.

Julian ★★★★★

The wooden tokens for the grapes and fields are so chunky and satisfying to handle, and I love that the worker placement spots stay tense even with just three of us. Setup took a bit longer than I expected at first, but once we got the rhythm down, our games wrapped right around the 60-minute mark.