Viticulture Essential Edition

You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany, where you’ve inherited a meagre 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.Viticulture Essential Edition is a competitive worker-placement game set in the foothills of Tuscany and it features 86 custom wooden tokens and 232 beautifully illustrated cards.

This is basically a more robust version of Viticulture without adding the complexity of some of the “heavier” Tuscany expansions. Mamas & Papas gives players different starting resources. Field cards let you sell fields you’re not using for an influx of money. A larger set of visitor cards offer a lot more variety, and only the most balanced cards have been selected so there’s never a bad draw.

1-6 players

45-90 minutes