Viticulture (Essential Edition)

Winemaking, by people with insufficient staff and unrealistic deadlines.

Pre-modern Tuscany, and you have inherited a vineyard that has seen better centuries: a few plots of land, an old crush pad and a small number of workers. Everyone at the table wants to be first to call their winery a genuine success. Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone's design for Stonemaier Games, with the best of the original's expansions folded into the one box.

You decide how to spread your workers across the year, and the catch is that the seasons want different things — summer's jobs are not winter's jobs. There is real competition over those tasks, and the first worker to a job generally does better out of it than whoever turns up afterwards. Visitors arrive as cards and will happily pitch in around the vineyard, but only if you spend a worker on hosting them. All of it feeds back into building structures, planting vines and filling wine orders.

Perfect for: People who describe wine using the word "structure" and are not joking.

1–6 players | 45–90 minutes | Age 13+

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