Stonemaier Games

Viticulture Essential Edition

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$39.65 $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 (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Zoe ★★★★★

I've played this with 2 and with 5 players, and it scales shockingly well either way. Those 86 wooden tokens feel great in the hand and make the whole vineyard feel tactile, not just abstract. Games land right around the 45-90 minute mark too.

Sophia Q. ★★★★★

The little wooden grape and wine tokens are ridiculously charming, and my wife keeps stealing the purple ones. Teaches fast too, we had my parents playing a full four-player game within twenty minutes.

Miles ★★★★★

We’ve played it three nights in a row now, and the 86 wooden tokens feel fantastic in hand while the 1-6 player range makes it easy to pull out for any group size. The 45-90 minute pacing hits a sweet spot—long enough to strategize, short enough to want another round.