Viticulture Essential Edition: A board game set in the beautiful Tuscan hills. Strategic worker placement, seasonal farm management, and a scenic Tuscan hillside. English version. No Japanese manual.

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Viticulture Essential Edition - A board game about managing a winery in the hills of Tuscany

A strategy game where you build your own winery in the Tuscan hills. Viticulture Essential Edition is a strategy board game set in the beautiful Tuscan hills where you inherit a small vineyard and grow it into a prestigious winery.
You can experience the depth and joy of running a farm as you plant grapes, harvest them, brew wine, and fulfill orders while feeling the changing seasons.

This game is a more refined and complete version of Viticulture, incorporating some elements of Tuscany into the second edition. It offers more strategic options and a richer gameplay experience without increasing complexity. It can be played by one to six players, and with a playtime of approximately 45-90 minutes, it strikes the perfect balance between being easy to pick up and offering ample strategic fun.

Game attractions and features

Winery management throughout the seasons

The biggest feature of Viticulture Essential Edition is that you need to assign workers according to the changing seasons of spring, summer, fall, and winter. You can experience the same process as running an actual winery: plowing the fields and planting grapes in the summer, and brewing and shipping wine in the winter.
Each season offers different actions, so planning your strategy throughout the year is key to victory.

A variety of strategy patterns

"Mom and Dad Cards" provide each player with different starting resources, allowing them to develop unique strategies right from the start of the game. The real fun of this game is being able to aim for victory using various approaches, such as special actions using visitor cards, efficiency through facility construction, and a balance between grape cultivation and winemaking.

Strategic worker placement

Where should you place your limited number of workers? Because it's a first-come, first-served game, you'll need to make the best decisions while keeping an eye on other players' movements. Using Grande Workers gives you the privilege of placing workers in spaces that are already filled, but knowing when to use them is also an important strategic point.

Rich components

With 86 custom wooden tokens, 232 beautifully illustrated cards, and glass grape and wine tokens, every piece is visually stunning, bringing the Tuscan landscape to life.

Game Flow

Game Preparation

Each player receives starting resources from the "Mom & Dad" cards and prepares their own vineyard mat.

Awakening Phase

Players place their tokens on the "Wake-up Track" to determine the order in which they wake up. The earlier you wake up, the less rewards you get, and the later you wake up, the more rewards you get, creating a dilemma.

Seasonal Action

The seasons progress in order: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, and each player places workers and performs actions.

• In the summer, the main focus is on grape cultivation and facility construction.
• In winter, you can brew wine and fulfill orders.

year end

At the end of the year, the workers are returned to their hands and the next year begins.

Game End

If any player has 20 or more victory points, the game ends at the end of that year and the player with the most victory points wins.

Strategic Depth

By utilizing "Field Cards," you can sell unused fields to earn funds. In addition, the wide variety of "Visitor Cards" are powerful resources that allow you to assign workers to receive various support.
The "Buy/Sell Grapes" action on the game board has been changed to "Sell at least 1 grape or buy/sell 1 vineyard" to give you more flexibility.

Solo play is also available

Viticulture Essential Edition also includes a single-player mode using Automa cards, allowing you to face off against virtual opponents with AI-like behavior, providing the same strategic fun as playing with multiple players.

Rich game components

• 86 custom wooden tokens
• 232 beautifully illustrated cards
• 1 game board
• 1 rulebook (multiplayer and solo)
• 6 vineyard mats
• 42 grape cards
• 36 wine ordering cards
• 38 Summer Visitor Cards
• 38 Winter Visitor Cards
• 18 Field Cards
• 24 Automa cards
• 36 pink and blue cards
• 30 Wooden Worker Meeples
• 6 Wooden Grande Worker Meeples
• 48 glass grapes and wine tokens
• 6 Wooden Wake-Up Tokens
• 6 wooden victory point tokens
• 6 Wooden Residual Payment Tokens
• 48 wooden structure tokens
• 72 punchboard lira coins
• 1 First Player Token

Viticulture Essential Edition is a masterpiece board game that beautifully combines the unique theme of winery management with highly strategic gameplay. With beautiful components and sophisticated rules, it can be enjoyed by beginners and advanced players alike.

Experience the joy of building the finest winery in the Tuscan hills. Suitable for 1-6 players, with a playtime of approximately 45-90 minutes, and recommended for ages 13 and up, this game is sure to provide hours of fun for friends and family.

Read a detailed review of the board game Viticulture Essential Edition here

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